Product Owner

Job description / Role

Overview

Aramco energizes the world economy. Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades of experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

We are seeking a product owner to join our Global Optimizer Development Department.

The Global Optimizer Development Department (GOD) charter is to optimize crude allocation and the operations of global manufacturing facilities in order to maximize revenue, increase profitability, and capture international market opportunities.

Your primary focus will be to identify and detail the business requirements for Global Optimizer digital solutions. You will actively participate in solutions that improve downstream margin from design stages to deployment.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Identify and document business requirements for downstream digital solutions.
• Participate in solution ideation, design sprints, and user interviews to gather and synthesize information.
• Benchmark industry best practices and existing solutions in the market.
• Assist in the design of target customer journeys.
• Translate end-user requirements into features and software functionalities and document them in industry standard formats.
• Define and review clear acceptance criteria and ensure user stories are ready for design and development.
• Participate in demo sessions to ensure the design/development meets the requirements and provide feedback.
• Participate/Lead user acceptance testing to ensure solutions meet the business requirements.
• Define standards and templates on how to write requirements documents, user stories, acceptance criteria, and others based on industry best practices and Aramco's guidelines.

Minimum Requirements

As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or Petroleum Studies. An advanced degree is preferred.

• You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis and product management.
• Proven experience as a digital solution product owner or similar role.
• Certification in Agile Methodologies (preferred).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent understanding of the oil and gas industry, particularly downstream.
• Knowledge of refining planning process modeling requirements.
• Knowledge of digital solutions and technologies including software development processes, user experience design, and testing.

Working Environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical, and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical, and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.

About the Company

Saudi Aramco is an integrated global energy enterprise. The company markets and exports crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas liquids and sulfur. It also ships crude oil worldwide through an affiliated company and participates in petroleum refining and marketing activities at home and abroad. Its overseas affiliates are in the United States, Egypt, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Saudi Aramco's subsidiaries span the globe, with offices in Houston, Washington, New York, London, Leiden, Dubai, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul.