Product Owner (offline)

Responsibilities:
● Communicate and frame customer problems clearly for the team, including writing user stories, building flowcharts, and use cases
● Manage product backlogs - you will create and manage the backlog items
● Help the teams create project documentation and keep it up to date
● Perform user acceptance testing to ensure the quality of delivered solutions
● Work on multiple projects at the same time at different stages of the life cycle

What kind of person you are:
● Curious and always asking the question “why are we doing this?”
● Hands-on. You are quick to try new apps and tools, to figure out how they work, what you like - and what you’d change to improve it
● Excellent communicator; able to interpret, dissect and relay key information
● Ability to solve problems and work effectively under pressure
● Have a strong interest in technology trends and keeps up-to-date with the latest developments

Qualifications:
● 4+ years of experience as a Product Owner for application SaaS and/or mobile software, or software engineering experience and willingness to learn
● Experience leading cross-functional teams from ideation to launch
● Experience working in an Agile environment, Scrum preferred
● Experience writing user stories
● Good English and communication skills

Preferred:
● Scrum Product Owner certification
● Experience managing product backlog for multiple Scrum teams
● Experience with troubleshooting Production issues and coming up with quick solutions and workarounds

We offer:
● Opportunity to work with a highly professional international team and contribute to development of a successful product
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment where ideas are welcomed
● Possibility for career growth
● Professional education, trainings, meetups
● Medical & family care programs
● Internal English courses provided by Forte
● Comfortable and fully equipped workplace, ability to work remotely

About Forte Group

About us:
Forte Group is a full-service custom software delivery partner with a global team of experts who bring the best technology talent and value-driven practices to achieve clients’ mission in accelerating their business.

We are a network of innovators, product leaders, engineers, and professionals spanning three continents with global offices.

Back when Forte was founded in 2000, we were a small group of engineers and technologists focused on QA. Today, Forte has more than 900+ employees working out of eleven offices in the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Ukraine, Poland, etc.

Over the years, we’ve cooperated with more than 350 clients globally, and we’ve developed great software that’s been used by more than nine million people ‒ that’s equivalent to the population of London or even Switzerland!

Our clients:
DocuSign, Relativity, Sphera, Tinder, Insureon, GPShopper, Follett, SwiftIQ, Lawyer Exchange, & more

What we do: Driven to succeed

“We have been developing IT solutions for 20 years. Not as a singled out pianist, violinist, and drummer, but as an orchestra.
Steve Kreynin, Founder and CEO at Forte Group

The roadmap of our solutions consists of software engineering, product management, quality assurance & testing, staff augmentation and ecommerce strategy.

We help mid-market and large enterprises extend the capabilities of their existing software products and systems, build products from scratch, and augment software engineering teams to accelerate and enhance delivery.

Our team consists of like-minded professionals ready for a tech challenge. You name it, we’ve probably done it. Our portfolio features projects for clients in the banking, financial services, healthcare, IoT, life sciences, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain, media and entertainment, and retail industries. To add value and achieve solution scalability, we use Agile methodologies to deliver better software to market faster.

Our technology focus:
.NET, Java, JavaScript (React.js, Node.js), Oracle, Hybris, Salesforce, PHP, QA/QC, SDET, Mobile development, and Talent management.

What’s in it for you:
- Experience working with multicultural distributed teams
- Individual approach for project selection (our resource managers are rushing to help)
- Performance reviews twice a year
- Individual and group sessions with a psychologist
- Flexibility. Work from home or the office in an autonomous working environment.
- Opportunities for career development and professional growth through our learning and development department
- Friendly and enjoyable working environment with a fully equipped workplace
- Medical and family care programs, gifts to children. Fully paid five sick days yearly

Unlock your career’s potential and join us on our quest to deliver value through software.

Our mission. Bring together the best technology talent and practices to deliver on our clients’ mission.
Our Values

We care about our people.
We are committed to the growth of our employees, teams, and clients.
We create a network of individual support, team trust, and transparency for everyone in and outside the company. This environment allows creativity to flow and fosters the long-term growth of our people and nurturing of our customers.
We value curiosity and resourcefulness.
The quest for self-improvement is a life-long pursuit — but a worthy one.
We endeavor to be extraordinary, curious, resourceful, and continually progress. By upgrading our team, we boost everything around us.
We value and deliver quality at scale.
We’re adaptive to new perspectives, technologies, ideas, and challenges — both as technology experts and as people. We aim to bring positive and qualitative change through transformative software.

Company website:
https://fortegrp.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/forte-group/