Senior Product Owner - remote

Dynamic Planner
Posted 3 years ago  • Reading, UK

Fantastic Opportunity to join a talented team in delivering market leading products and services within FinTech! Dynamic Planner has a people focused culture, offers investment in the team's development and a great opportunity to make a difference whilst you continue to learn and grow your career!

Role purpose

Maximize the value of the product resulting from the work of the sprint teams.

Work with the Product Management team to help evolve and realise our product vision.

Coach Junior Product Owners towards becoming effective Product Owners.

Provide leadership in evaluating and adopting applicable Agile / Scrum / Lean / Design best practices and new trends.

Key responsibilities

·Establish a vision of what you wish to build and convey that vision to the sprint team. Motivate the sprint team with a clear, elevating goal.

·Define the product backlog and create actionable user stories with the sprint teams.

·Use customer feedback to inform thinking on the backlog.

·Groom and prioritise the work in the backlog according to business value.

·Help ensure that the scrum team always has an adequate amount of well-prepared user stories to work on.

·Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of sprint goals.

·Review and accept the completed user stories, making sure the work fulfils the acceptance criteria.

·Develop a solid understanding of our users, our products, the market place, the competition and future trends.

·Drive analysis, scoping and design for major client implementations.

Key deliverables

Well curated backlog.

Well written user stories.

Best possible new Dynamic Planner product features or client implementations.

Energised and supportive sprint teams.

Energised and supportive stakeholders.

Well coached Solutions Consultants.

Stakeholders

Product Manager

Solutions Consultants

Scrum Masters

Scrum team

Client Insight

Client Success

Clients

Marketing

Skills

Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.

Great communication, presentation and people skills.

Great listening skills.

Excellent organisational and time management skills.

A second European language would be an advantage.

Experience

10 Years experience in a Product Owner role or similar

Solid experience of agile processes and principles.

Personal financial advice domain knowledge.

Experience providing SAAS internationally would be an advantage.

Attributes

Leadership, creative thinking, decision making, accountability, attention to detail, determination to succeed, team player.

Qualifications

Ideally

·Product Ownership certification.

·ISEB (or similar) qualification in Business Analysis.