We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team in our Barcelona offices.
You will be part of a very skilful team that develops both internal, company facing products and APIs such as reporting, and marketing tools, as well as customer facing services, such as billing or acquisition flows. You will be responsible for working with stakeholders and other product owners in order to develop and transmit product goals, ensuring that we continuously deliver quick value to the rest of the business within an Agile environment.
What you’ll do:
- Facilitate the delivery of software into production through excellence in product management
- Managing the product roadmap and capturing work requests from both business and technology stakeholders
- Business and product analysis, definition and prioritisation in an Agile environment
- Scoping of solutions in a manner that facilitates continuous improvement and deployment of product updates
- Transmit the goals and value of the stories to the development team, work with them to refine the stories
- Understand high value KPI’s for the different products and integrate them into monitoring and reporting tools
- Adapt the different available agile methodologies to help the team to move to the next level of performance
- Ability to deal with a wide range of stakeholders, other product owners and founders, and be able to group, prioritize and make sense of those requests whilst in the big picture
- Coordinate releases of new features and acceptance testing
- 3+ years Product Owner / Business Analyst experience
- Understands all parts of the software development life cycle
- Knowledge of Internet solutions design and development
- Experience working at a "digital first", Internet oriented, 24x7, b2c business
- Willingness and interest in deeply understanding how the business works to better articulate business requirements for the software developers
- Data driven thinker
- Hands-on technical background of developing Internet solutions software (Ideally LAMP environment) before moving into product management
- Good understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
- Excellent communication skills
- Good listener and observer
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Leadership and initiative
- Proactive identification of problem areas along with proposing solutions to address them.
- Willingness and capability to participate in product testing and release management
- Strong delivery, "push it over the line" orientation
- Knowledge of commercial reporting, monitoring and analysis tools ideally Kibana, Google Analytics and Datadog
Desirable knowledge:
- Bachelor degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
- Atlassian solutions, especially Jira
- Knowledge of additional project delivery methodologies
- Experience in small, startup businesses
- Project budgeting and business case creation
- Some travel may be required
- Permanent contract
- Flexible working hours
- Fully subsidised daily lunches, drinks and snacks
- Private health insurance
- 23 days of vacation plus 14 flexible bank holidays
- Annual paid training/conference participation.
- Free English and Spanish classes
- Company sponsored events: company-wide gathering (Cancun 2018), Friday pizza and beer; other parties, events and team-building
- Apple work equipment
- Subsidised gym membership