Senior Product Owner (m/f)

The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. Product Owner is accountable for and has the authority to maximize the value of the product and the effectiveness of the Product Backlog by using, but not limited to, these 6 key stances: The Visionary: - Articulating the strategic vision of the product - Developing and explicitly communicating intermediate strategic goals - Propose how the product can tactically increase its value each Sprint - Understand and shape the impact of the product on our company - Each Sprint ensuring that the Scrum Team is prepared to discuss the most important Product Backlog items The Influencer: - Actively manage stakeholders, their desires, expectations, and outcomes - Create an effective communication strategy - Influence the Developers during Backlog Items Sizing by helping them select and understand trade-offs - Work with Developers daily to clarify and renegotiate the Scope of the Sprint The Collaborator: - Collaborating closely with the Developers & Stakeholders daily - Developing and communicating budget, investments, roadmaps, vision, & strategy - Developing controls for a change, risk, quality, & incident management to enable professional Scrum - Developing and influencing commercial contracts that align with the agile values and principles The Customer Representative: - Understand the desired outcomes of customers within the bounds of the business constraints - Defining our product(s) and services and how customers will interact with them The Decision Maker - Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood - Ordering Product Backlog items - Choosing what and when to release The Experimenter - Using evidence-based management techniques to optimise outcomes and value delivered - Create hypothesis and craft experiments to test that hypothesis quickly - Tracking product use and impact on end-users and drive consistent approaches across all Product Verticals Job description source https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/hiring-professional-product-owner

The successful candidate must have the following attributes: - First level Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO, PSPO I) - Product Owner Experience; Demonstrable experience of product ownership - Business domain knowledge; a keen understanding of the [business domain], market, and other influencers - Entrepreneurial focus; A keen understanding of evidence-based techniques to inform strategic and tactical milestones - Excellent ideation skills; with a proven track record of successful hypothesis-driven ideation and sustainable feedback loops - Excellent communication skills; Communicating Vision, Goals, and Backlog Items with both the Developers and other Stakeholders In addition, the successful candidate will have some or all of the following attributes - Second level Scrum Product Owner certification (A-CSPO, PSPO II) - Experience fulfilling the Product Owner role for at least five years - Experience in banking/finance sector - Knowledge and/or experience with complimentary Agile product management techniques: Evidence-based Management, Goal-orientated Product Roadmap, Business Model Canvas, Growth Experiment Canvas, Delegation Poker, Liberating Structures, Three Horizons Innovation, Stakeholder Mapping, Impact Mapping, Value Pyramids - Experience with Jira and Confluence