Digital Product Owner
Location: Dublin - 6 month rolling contract
The key responsibilities include:
- Act as the voice of the customer during internal discussions
- Provide a vision and ultimate goal for the product
- Create and maintain the product backlog
- Groom and prioritise the product backlog whilst considering business value, development constraints and project risks
- Manage product requirements from definition to delivery
- Assist in definition and implementation of product management processes.
- Refine and approve User Stories and acceptance criteria with the Business Analyst team
- Define and communicate the business goal of each sprint
- Carry out UAT on completed development work
- Ensure overall quality of the product
- Attend relevant scrum ceremonies
- Business travel will be required
Behaviour/Values Required:
- Strong Communication (verbal & written) and Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to work effectively within a team environment
- Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely
- Strong project management with an ability to understand dependencies within a project or wider programme of work. Knowing when and how to push back (to business users, or senior stakeholders).
- A strong and motivational leader
- Demonstrable ability to think "outside of the box" and innovate
- Proven ability to drive and manage change
- Comfortable challenging the ideas of others
- Strong influencing skills, particularly with senior executives
- Capable of working across borders and cross organizational boundaries
- Commercial acumen
Experience Required
- Educated to degree level
- 5-8 years of experience working in IT related projects in agile, specifically scrum
- 3+ years in a product owner role
- Experienced Jira user
- Top-Tier Consulting experience a distinct advantage
- Knowledge of Financial Services/ Insurance Industry Sector useful but not essential
