Product Owner, Communication Services (offline)

About the vacancy

Our client is a global provider of testing, analytics, and security solutions for the telecommunications sector.

DataArt’s specialists are helping to develop an analytical solution which tracks transactions that determine the quality of customer experience with network service providers (QoE). From these transactions, key indicators are displayed, such as radio frequency performance, base signal speed, and service performance (VoLTE, SMS). All metrics are combined into the final QoE estimates, which are used to determine hot spots and help localize and solve service quality problems.

Responsibilities
- Lead all aspects of an established agile team, including backlog grooming, triage and prioritization, and cross-functional coordination
- Responsible for defining the scope of development for new product features ongoing feature improvements including management of all backlog and project management activities
- Write and prioritize user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Ability to establish and maintain a high level of credibility with internal and external partners
- Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
- Follow our competitors and the industry
- Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
- Track progress, assess risks, coordinate delivery, and actively communicate contingency and mitigation plans for the team
- Run various ad-hoc research and business analyses to assess opportunities and risks

Must have
- 3+ years in Product Management (as a product owner, business analyst, or product manager)
- Experience managing a team backlog, breaking down requirements, writing user stories, and validating that customer needs are met
- Strong negotiation, organizational, management, analytical, and people skills
- Experience with Agile processes and tools, such as Scrum, Kanban, and/or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Jira
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

About DataArt

DataArt is a global software engineering firm. With over 20 years of experience, teams of highly-trained engineers around the world, deep industry sector knowledge, and ongoing technology research, we help clients create custom software that improves their operations and opens new markets. DataArt started out as a company of friends and has a special culture that distinguishes it from other IT outsourcers, such as:
- Flat structure. There are no “bosses” and “subordinates”.
- We hire people not to a project, but to the company. If the project (or your work in it) is over, you go to another project or to a paid “Idle”.
- Flexible schedule, ability to change projects, to work from home, to try yourself in different roles.
- Minimal bureaucracy and micromanagement, convenient corporate services

Company website:
https://dataart.ua

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/dataart/