Mobile App Product Owner

Overview

Role Summary

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Product Ownership & Agile Delivery

• Own and manage the mobile app backlog, ensuring items are clearly defined, prioritized,
• and ready for development.
• Define and communicate product goals, roadmap inputs, and sprint objectives aligned to
• business outcomes.
• Write high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting artifacts (wireframes,
• process flows, edge cases).
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning support, and clarify requirements during delivery.
• Partner with engineering to balance scope, timeline, quality, and technical constraints.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and manage trade-offs with transparency and structure.

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Elicit, analyze, and document requirements using interviews, workshops, journey mapping,
• and data review.
• Translate business goals into functional and non-functional requirements (performance,
• security, accessibility).
• Define end-to-end flows across mobile app, APIs, authentication, payments, notifications,
• and analytics tracking.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure delivered functionality matches intent.

Customer Experience & UX Collaboration

• Collaborate with UX/UI to shape user journeys, prototypes, and interaction patterns.
• Ensure experiences are consistent across platforms (iOS/Android) while respecting native
• design conventions.
• Advocate for accessibility, usability, and clarity across key user tasks.

Quality, Release & Operational Readiness

• Support QA with test scenarios, edge cases, and defect triage; ensure release readiness.
• Coordinate UAT and stakeholder sign-offs where applicable.
• Monitor post-release performance, customer feedback, and app store reviews; drive
• continuous improvements.
• Contribute to incident analysis and remediation planning for production issues.

Data & Performance

• Define success metrics (e.g., conversion, engagement, retention, crash-free sessions) for
• features and releases.
• Work with analytics teams to ensure proper event tracking, dashboards, and insights
• generation.
• Use data to validate hypotheses, measure impact, and inform backlog priorities.

Core Deliverables

• Well-prioritized backlog, sprint-ready user stories
• Business requirements documentation (as needed)
• User journey maps, process flows, and functional specs
• Acceptance criteria, test scenarios, release notes inputs
• KPI definitions, tracking requirements, and feature outcomes reporting

Required Skills & Experience

• 3–7+ years experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or hybrid PO/BA role with
• mobile apps.
• Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery and backlog management.
• Proven ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, QA, analytics).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills—able to simplify complexity.
• Analytical mindset with comfort using data to make decisions.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with mobile platform capabilities: deep links, push notifications, in-app
• messaging, biometrics, offline mode.
• Experience in regulated or high-availability environments (security, privacy, payments,
• identity).