Product Owner - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 19-07-2019 8:32:34 AM
14-08-2019 10:40:26 AM
Our in-house dev team started in 2015, the GLI family started in 2004 and has been a competitive force in the ever-evolving iGaming industry ever since. We encourage a culture of empowerment, creative expression and a positive work-life balance. We offer our employees flexible working hours, remote working options, Medical Aid contributions and discretionary annual bonuses. If you’re looking for great coffee, challenging projects and our traditional weekly waffles, then this is the place for you!

Our Dev House is our home for our Back-end & Front-end Devs, Java Devs, PHP Devs, DevOps, QA Testers, UX & UI Designers, Scrum Masters, Business Analyst and Project Managers.

Our Dev House is a full-stack workforce that functions within an agile environment. Within our structured process, we take care of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, bug fixing, creating and maintaining applications and frameworks.

Job Description

Works with product managers, chief product owner (CPO), stakeholders to understand the vision, strategy and objectives of the product.
Conveys the product vision and goals clearly to the software development team.
Conducts the necessary business analysis to extract and define requirements necessary for development.
Builds and continuously maintains the product backlog of features, which is prioritised by business value based on the product vision, objectives and goals.
Builds the product release plan (product roadmap) based on the backlog and estimates of effort in order to provide the CPO a product roadmap. The product owner works with the scrum master and development team in backlog refinement and sprint planning meetings to achieve this.
Ensures requirements are written and communicated in time for the team to estimate and develop according to product backlog priority.
Is available to the development team on a full time basis to answer questions and make decisions. This ensures the team is not held up during development and that they deliver according to requirements.
Performs user acceptance testing of developed features to ensure the products and features built will satisfy the end user needs.
Acts as the primary link and communicator with the product stakeholders
Product evaluation: Ensures that the product is performing as expected and meeting the end user and business needs
Accepts delivery of completed user stories (features) and confirms they match requirements and expected quality.
Requirements & Skills

Bachelors Degree in IT, Computer Science, Software or Finance related qualification preferred
Minimum 3 years’ experience in similar role
Strong maths, statistics and logical skills
Ability to read spreadsheets and numbers, genuine love of numbers and the value that can be derived from interrogating them
Hands-on experience with reporting services and data mining will be useful
Sound understanding of database principles and relational table structures
Displays positive attitude
Demonstrates flexibility in day-to-day work
Self-motivated and proactive
Able to think logical and objectively with the ability to think outside of the box and therefore see the bigger picture
Comfortable working under pressure and successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Results driven with good time management skills
Good leadership skills in order to obtain appropriate information and to arrange and co-ordinate projects
Possess a high attention to detail

How Vacancies Work:

Once we have received your resume, our HR Team will review it shortly. If you’ve reached the interview stage, you’ll then hear from us via email or phone within two weeks. Unfortunately, due to application volumes we can’t give feedback to all applicants. But be sure to keep an eye out, as new job opportunities are posted here regularly.