Product Owner

About This Role

Job description:

2.    JOB PURPOSE:

A Product Owner creates product roadmap and defines the strategic vision for their team driven by the overall vision. They have a deep understanding of the target market/industry and build close relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the team’s effort is aligned with overall strategy. A Product Owner manages dependencies with other team’s functions while identifying, building and managing strategic partnership across the different teams. They work closely within their team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new developments when necessary. Product owners will be accountable for specific business KPIs based on the area of the product they are focused on.

3.    KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

    Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and the rest of the unit

    End to end team output strategy from inception to production

    Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure digital vision and products align within team strategy and requirements

    Accountable for product specific KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders 

    Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team.  Maintain a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team

    Deliver multiple, concurrent projects and business area backlog items with responsibility for all business change elements

    Lead and coordinate change activity, working with lead translators / program managers to maintain a strategic delivery roadmap

    Manage projects of varying ‘scale’ as well as business area backlog items from idea through to delivery and closure, adopting proportionate governance and using the established change delivery framework

    Maintain momentum and direction, delivering to the agreed scope, timeframe and budget with resource planning and accurate estimation treated as fundamental principles

    Practise a progressive stakeholder management approach, building invested relationships, and where appropriate, employing an agreed engagement & communication plan

    Actively manage project risks, issues and dependencies

    Plan and coordinate work with other internal departments to ensure internal resource requirements are understood and the right resources are available when required

    Direct the activities of third-party providers (vendors, consultants etc.), ensuring delivery to time, quality and budget

    Report progress to Lead translator and other business senior members through established monthly reporting or equivalent. 

    Facilitates release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos

    Is a key role on Agile team(s) and works onsite with the team on a daily basis

    Integrates usability studies and research into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction and ensure customer driven design

    Align outward facing product requirements and stakeholders 

4.    AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:

    Thinking within broadly defined policies, standards and objectives. The determination of “what needs to be done” in applying polices is largely left up to the incumbent who must establish the plan, determine the priorities and prescribe the processes needed to achieve the objectivesss

    Subject to general direction and broadly defined functional policy objectives. Actions which will impact other functional or operating areas usually require approval before they may be implemented.

5.    QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

    Bachelors/Masters degree in engineering or relevant business function

Minimum Experience:

    Overall 7 years’ experience with minimum of 4 years in metal and mining industry and energy. Good experience profile leading agile projects as a product owner and as a scrum master. 

    Formal project management qualification such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile Project Management or equivalent

    Proven understanding of project management techniques in an agile environment

    Excellent project coordinator that can plan 2-3 steps ahead of the team and surface hidden risks 2-3 levels deep within the team.

    Proven knowledge of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the relevant industry

    Excellent Knowledge and understanding of technical engineering best practices (e.g., test driven development, continuous integration, etc.) 

    Proven knowledge and understanding of standard precision practices, technology and supporting industry principles 

    Excellent knowledge on tracking and analytics setup

    Proficient with drawing storyboards, creating wireframes, creating / ‘grooming’ product backlogs, writing user stories and developing acceptance criteria 

    Relentless prioritization and alignment with business and IT stakeholders to ensure highest value capture  

    Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior client business and IT executives on transforming towards agile  

    Ability to move between strategic discussions with senior business leaders to tackle on the ground agile coaching with teams

    Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and business

    Demonstrable experience of managing the delivery of complex business change projects within Data Transformation

    Demonstrable experience of managing a diverse change portfolio with concurrent initiatives underpinned by proven dexterity, creativity and the efficient use of resources

    Solid experience of all stages of the project delivery and software development life cycle

    Experience of engaging and managing third parties (vendors, consultants etc.)

    Strong planning and control expertise

    Experience working with design team to deliver top user experience (UX) and user interface (UI)

    Good to have experience delivering advance analytics, digital, automation and robotization project experience.     

    Good to have IT, automation & control system experience and training in similar fields. 

    Our technology stack comprises Azure, Power BI, Sparx, Python, R, Synapse and SQL Server. Knowledge of these technologies would be beneficial, as well as an appreciation of Big Data and real time analytics.

Skills:

Agile/Digital Experience:

    Experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up, etc.)

    Deep experience leading with teams in an agile setting

    Strong people management skills

    Excellent workshop and meeting facilitation skills

Profile description:

Individual Skills:

    Strong leader, collaborator, team player, and individual contributor

    Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders

    Strong problem solver with ability to manage and lead the team to push the solution and progress

Mindset/Behaviors:

    Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change

    Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust 

    Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same 

    Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow

    Experimental mindset to drive innovation