We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our team. This new role will have a direct impact on the product we provide. You will be integral to co-creating a product ready for growth and will translate product strategy into actionable tasks for our cross-functional product squads. Knowing the layers of our tech stack, ranging from data engineering and data science to full stack and web development is important. Equally important to this role is a transparent leadership and communication style and a passion for the curation of data.

Requirements

Your main responsibility will be to help implement the product vision and translate this to the product roadmap, which you'll own. This means you'll start from the high-level business requirements and prioritized features.

• Defining: Since our product is for the Australian Mortgage Industry, you'll take ownership in all data field definitions and data structures and are responsible for the process of defining them by speaking to different stakeholders. You'll also help define how our customers interact with the data (via API, UI, …).
• Translating: You will be responsible for deciding on priorities and translating business requirements to the different engineering squads. In this, you are able to set clear acceptance criteria.
• Validating and releasing: You are the end-owner of the releases, in which you are responsible for final validation: have the business rules been implemented & interpreted correctly by the teams?
• Explaining: You'll be the SPOC for the roadmap for a wide spectrum of audiences including the management, the commercial teams and even our customers.

• You're an excellent communicator who's able to communicate both with brilliant engineers and business-focused stakeholders. You must have a good command of the English language, both written and spoken, since you'll work with people of different nationalities.
• Excellent Understanding of Agile process and principles, certification of Product Owner, Scrum Master and Scrum Master is preferred
• You have worked in, or show a big interest in the technology Start-up, allowing you to build up domain knowledge to understand our customers & their needs even better.

Ideally, you will also:

• Have experience with our tech stack (Python, AWS, …)
• Have experience with Jira, SCRUM, bringing in expertise on how to structure our projects.
• Have worked in a startup or scale-up (with > 20 software engineers) before so you know what it's like to build products from the ground up in an environment with many uncertainties & growth challenges.
• Have experience working with stakeholders in an industry where data is not the main focus and can help showcase the value it brings.
• Knowledge of UML, activity diagrams, process flow diagrams, SWOT analysis, Business value and ROI

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Information Systems OR related industry experience
• You have at least 5 years of professional experience, of which a minimum of 3 years in a product owner/project manager role. Technical background, you've had at least 2 years of software/data engineering experience so you know where the challenges lie.