Product Owner
CV Library, South Africa

WORK ARRANGEMENT: Hybrid / Cape Town

We are innovators and this makes every day exciting. Our team get to work with a large set of technologies including best in breed 3rd party tools and applications, and we're investing more than ever in our tech platforms to keep CV-Library at the forefront of the digital recruitment space.

We are seeking a passionate Product Owner to join our expanding Product Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Document new features, demonstrate the latest iteration of the product during reviews, record and react to feedback.
• Working closely with the scrum team to ensure all impediments and dependencies are identified, recorded.
• Collaborate with and manage communications with stakeholders.
• Understands the estimation process and participates in this process as required.
• Supports wider teams within the business understand new projects.
• Negotiating priorities with stakeholders ensuring high-value deliverables are identified and progressed to a high level of quality.
• Work with the marketing function to ensure coverage and awareness of the product is maximized.
• You own the backlog, driven from the Product roadmap, created by the Product Managers.
• You work closely with system architects and Product Managers to clearly describe business goals and customer requirements into product backlog items.
• Assess and review technical documentation and ensure the development team create appropriate levels of product documentation.
• Influence the direction of the department, responsible for supporting engineering teams to deliver work.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Product Designers, Marketing, and Data teams to clarify and document product requirements.
• Support the scrum delivery teams by crafting actionable user stories from Product Requirements (incl. Gherkin scenarios and acceptance criteria).
• Contribute to ideation, planning, and design sessions.
• Align your work with organisational objectives to fulfil the overarching product strategy.

Requirements

Essentials

• Excellent knowledge of agile scrum methodology and practices
• Ability to take ownership and make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner
• Adaptive and strong team player
• Excellent time management skills.
• Somebody who’s comfortable getting into a detailed technical discussion with our team of software developers.

• Experience in supporting teams that handle large data sets.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous situations and maintain velocity by removing blockers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in creating user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience executing product discovery and supporting user research.
• Understanding of conversion rate optimisation and A/B testing strategies.
• Strong desire for achieving operational excellence through SVPG methodologies.

Desirables

• Employ a data-driven approach for prioritisation, feature development using insights, competitor analysis, and user research.
• Familiarity with A/B testing methods.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA

Benefits

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.

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