Product Owner - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 16-01-2017 11:27:12 AM
13-02-2017 11:27:12 AM
Purpose:
Enable the business to achieve its goals by delivering The Company’s South Africa’s product lines. Deliver great products on time, on budget and to quality.

Key Accountabilities:
· Be responsible for delivering the roadmap for The Company’s South Africa’s strategic products.
· Work with the Product Delivery Manager and Product Manager(s) to translate the roadmap this into appropriate backlog(s) and user stories.
· Deliver products using the appropriate agile project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently.
· Drive and review business requirements (including Proposition design, customer journeys etc.)
· Write story level functional specifications and corresponding acceptance criteria.
· Involve the team to provide development estimates.
· Ensure adequate sign off on specifications from relevant stakeholders.
· Creates Product Backlog(s) from the business requirements and priorities.
· Manage inter development team dependencies, signs off and agree to BAU releases.
· Run a quality process around product delivery to minimize the risk of customer detriment.
· Lead and direct product owners appropriately in the creation of user stories.
· Assists project manager or stakeholders with the development of project initiation documents.
· Contribute to the improvement of the Product Delivery team’s aggregate level of capability.
· Contribute to the improvement the Product Delivery processes and ways of working with the wider business.
· Works with Product Delivery team during sprints to continuously clarify user stories or provide context to ensure all stories can be developed without impediment.
· Work with the CTO to participate in the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
· Identify, escalate and manage risks.
· Work with key business stakeholders to ensure non-product functions are integrated into initiatives.
· Matrix-managing a multidisciplinary team.
· Ensure long term sustainability of the products through collaboration and with technical architects.

Qualifications & Experience:
· Under-graduate/graduate level education.
· Experience establishing, improving and driving adherence to processes.
· Experience of software development and product / major feature launches. (preferably in Financial Services)
· Experience of ‘bringing the company with you’, particularly departments not in the same reporting line.
· Strong agile experience.
· Experience of producing high quality requirements documents.
· Must be able to garner respect from his/her team and be willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done.
· Must be able to ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, must be able to be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls.