Product Owner

We are looking for a Product Owner for a Product company BrainRocket to join our team with relocation to Cyprus (employee and his relatives).

About the company:
BrainRocket is a software development company and digital solutions provider. The company has created over 40 cutting-edge products spanning 20 different markets.
Our team of around 670 tech-savvy professionals successfully deliver scalable projects that are custom-made to the customers’ needs.
We also strive to create a culture centered around personal and professional growth for employees, in a positive and welcoming environment.

Responsibilities:
✔️ Manage Product Backlog: Formulating the list of backlog items and prioritising them as per the critical business objectives.
✔️ Define Sprint Objectives: The product owner defines the suggested sprint objective which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal
✔️ Review and approve the work done by the development team: The product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration.
✔️ Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: The Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders.
They need to be clear and concise communicators to ensure there is approval of the stakeholders for all major decisions and strategies.
✔️ Backlog Refinement: Ability to prioritise, enhance, and finalise the items with the team before the sprint planning.
✔️ Create and Maintain Change Requests Associated with the Product: Predominantly an Operational task. The Product Owner will gather and prioritise operational changes and include them within the Product Backlog for future sprint iteration.
✔️ Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: The Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve.Having strongly defined acceptance criteria is vital to ensure
that the Product performs to the expected standard. A/C's should always be confirmed with Stakeholders and will be used as a baseline for QA to test against.
✔️ Gather Functional and non Functional Requirements: The Product Owner will ensure that all requirements are gathered and that they meet the Product Managers expectations.
✔️ Maintain Requirements: Requirements may be adjusted during the project lifecycle, this is to be expected in a dynamic environment such as ours.
If a requirement is adjusted then this must be reflected at the appropriate level (Epic, Story).
✔️ Verify Requirements: Once the requirements, functional and non functional, have been gathered from the Stakeholder the Product Owner will confirm and agree that the requirements are fit for purpose and use.
✔️ Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases. Although the creation of these artefacts may be done by another team the Product Owner holds accountability for the quality of their content


Requirements:
✔️ 2-3 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Data Analyst).
✔️ Coding and designing (nice to have)
✔️ Product development architecture
✔️ Scrum and Agile development methodologies
✔️ User experience principles
✔️ Product backlog management
✔️ Communication Skills (Proficient in English)
Use of verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to create and convey product goals. Reporting insights which allows them to maximise product value and address issues during the early stages of development.
✔️ Analytical Skills
Ability to analyse various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible. Identify, collect and analyse information, use reason to solve complex problems and make decisions based on logical conclusions.
✔️ Decision Making
Use technical, analytical and communications skills to make crucial decisions regarding their products success and development. After identifying an issue you must be able to collect and collate all relevant information, find ways of dealing with it, decide on the best option and implement/evaluate the results.
✔️ Leadership
You will lead a team (without being a manager), therefore you must be able to demonstrate effective leadership techniques.Bring vision to the team, mentor where needed and negotiate with team members and the wider business.
✔️ Conflict Resolution
You will act as a mediator if/when conflict arises to ensure that the development stays on schedule. You will have the ability to resolve disputes over resource or power dynamics, using active listening skills to consider both sides and then make the decision.
✔️ Professional Certification:
PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement

Benefits:
🧑🏻‍💻Learning and development opportunities and interesting challenging tasks;
📝Official employment in accordance with the laws of Cyprus and the EU, registration of family members;
✈️ Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for 2 weeks);
🏋️‍♂️ Company fitness corner in the office for employees;
📚 Opportunity to develop language skills and partial compensation for the cost of language classes;
🎁 Birthday celebration present;
🏝 Time for proper rest and 24 working days of Annual Vacation;
🍲 Breakfasts and lunches in the office (partially paid by the company).


Are you interested?
Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information

About EvoTalents

EvoTalents is a fully remote technical recruitment agency with 10+ professional and creative recruiters in the team. We were founded by Elena Volk (a person who is truly passionate about technical recruitment) in 2016 and we have already filled more than 250+ vacancies. 90% of people we have found in the last 2 years pass a trial period.

We mostly work with product companies having the values which are the same as ours. We help companies such as iDeals, Erbis, YouScan, Sitecore, Reface, Sparkybit. We have technical expertise and experience in filling various vacancies even the most difficult ones (for example, Clojure Engineer or Senior Java Developer from Europe who relocated to Ukraine). Last but not least, we’re source geeks! If you have already reviewed all profiles on Linkedin, we know how to find anyone in other sources (even on Instagram or Meetup).

Company website:
https://evotalents.com/

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