Sr. Offshore Product Owner

Job description / Role

Role purpose:

Offshore Product owner is an entry level role and a great way to break into product. Working in an assistant-like position with other Product Owners, an APO is given a variety of smaller tasks to assist with product development.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
- Develop scope and define backlog items (epics/features/user stories) that guide the agile software development team.
- Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders
- Should be able to identify user needs, help a customer understand a business value and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.
- Drive the business requirements with the business stakeholders into a product backlog.
- Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories that are ready for implementation.
- Document business requirements, functional and non-functional specifications to aid in the development of new business products, solutions, or processes.
- Knows how to take an original idea from concept to an actual product
- Works very closely with developers, UX designers and capable to influence them.
- Works towards an outcome defined goal and product value with agile teams.
- Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.

Requirements

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Excellent research, analytical, and communication skills
- Digital perspective
- A passionate commitment to user-centred design and development

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience (2-6 years of experience)
- Previous experience as a product owner is not a must.
- Basic software development knowledge.

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.