Job Description

• Lead Re-engineering of specialised product
• Permanent role with Fortune 200 company
• Fantastic Work Environment – long term opportunity

Our client is a fortune 200 American company with presence in over 57 countries and with over 48,000 staff worldwide. However, the culture of entrepreneurial ship and shared responsibility is the most attractive benefit of working with this company.

If you are someone who likes ownership and a challenge but for whom culture is really important that this will be great role and place to consider.

Role’s Primary Purpose:

You will be the driving force behind software product innovation from in-depth product understanding and feature development, taking full responsibility from inception through to delivering solutions to market by:

• Interacting and collaborating directly with customers and key decision-makers, assisting with business development initiatives, gathering requirements, and formulating strategies for the building of products that meet a genuine need of our ANZ customers, with a strong focus on our 80’s profitable features/customers
• Clearly communicating product vision and roadmap, benefits, progress, and results, to a wide range of audiences both internal and external
• Working with the development teams to ensure solutions are being developed and delivered on time alongside realising the vision, roadmap and the customer value it was intended to, whilst maintaining technical integrity

Breaking the role’s Primary Purpose / responsibilities further, you will be accountable for the following:

1. Product Management

• Interacting and collaborating directly with our customers and key decision-makers, assisting with business development initiatives, gathering requirements, and formulating strategies for the building of products that meet a genuine need of our ANZ customers, with a strong focus on our 80’s customers
• Identify customers’ behaviours and needs through market research and analysis
• Engage with key Offsite ANZ stakeholders to also gather insights, requirements, and share product goals to provide input into the product roadmap planning process and throughout the product lifecycle
• Take full ownership of the product, the prioritisation of new features and enhancement to existing features in line with the strategy set by Offsite Leadership team, and the product roadmap
• Work closely with other Product Owners to ensure the shared customer experience vision is maintained, channel performance and satisfaction is continually monitored and that customer experience is kept at the forefront of all decisions

2. Client & Stakeholder Management

• As key decision maker, be the voice of the user on product features, communicating the value behind each product and prioritisation decision
• Provide regular status updates on product development and sprint progress, and results to key stakeholders
• Implement feedback loop, resolving and responding to product questions from Offsite ANZ stakeholders

3. Product Roadmap & Development Management

• Capture user requirements and work with the development teams to identify product scope, and create clear, actionable user-stories, and acceptance criteria where required
• Own, refine, and prioritise the product backlog
• Ensure the development team understand the product backlog and business value to successfully deliver each sprint / increment / initiative
• Actively participate in scrum ceremonies & apply learnings
• Define, monitor, and analyse KPIs and other metrics for live products and feed lessons learned back into product development process
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

4. Product Enablement

• Understand and actively utilize Tools to remove complexity from the business and focus efforts on the 80’s profitable product features
• Actively participate in Divisional/Segment based toolbox projects to increase practical application knowledge of the toolbox
• Identify and build expertise within the team

Qualifications, skills & experience:

• Demonstrated ability to think and act strategically to position a business to win
• Experience in gathering and prioritising unbiased customer insights to identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities
• Strong commercial and analytical skills combined with the ability to make sensible and timely decisions
• Related experience and certifications, and an interest and ability to excel in the job responsibilities
• Ability to quickly learn new domains (people, software, business), and translate them for others
• Ability to work in a collaborative & agile environment, balancing a large workload & prioritising effectively
• Data driven, customer focused, proactive, creative, and innovative
• Open for input and feedback, while being able to influence people being challenged by change
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Able to forge strong bonds with key stakeholders (and influence them) and speak at different levels of technical understanding
• Self-motivated, energetic & can work both autonomously & as part of the team
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a changing environment, demonstrating a strong consultative approach and manner

Highly desirable:

• Strong understanding of Construction/Building industry
• Recent experience in a scrum environment

What is on offer

• Good salary & culture
• Permanent position
• Excellent culture & work environment
• Opportunity to work with Fortune 200 company
• Loads of other Benefits  

How to apply

• If you on our website, apply below
• If you are NOT on our website, please apply on the link: https://portal.appetencyrecruitment.com.au/47df61dd/information-technology-jobs/software-product-owner-moorabbin.php

Other titles for this role in other organisation might be: Product Owner, Project Lead, Subject Matter Expert, Software Development Manager, Software Product Owner