Aquiva Labs is looking for a Product Owner. The Product Owner is responsible for engaging with customers to collect and organize requirements for the solution to be built. As an essential member of agile scrum teams, the Product Owner has the ability to understand and document the problem rather than focusing on the solution, leaving that to the team.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Collect requirements from the customer
Collaborate with the Project Manager and Development Lead to plan development sequence
Manage the product backlog (epics, user stories, defects)
Participate in sprint ceremonies (daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning, internal reviews, stakeholder reviews, retrospective)
Prepare user stories for grooming / estimation sessions
Prioritize backlog for the release and for business value in advance of sprint planning
Schedule and lead requirement clarification sessions with the customer throughout the development cycle
Available to the development team to answer questions regarding customer’s needs and the customer’s view of how the product is being implemented
Accept user stories in compliance with the definition of done
Lead bi-weekly demonstration of completed features to customer
Manage customer user acceptance testing
Create functional documentation
Manage trade-offs to meet project deadlines
Identify and manage risks
Ongoing communication with Scrum Master / Project Manager
Qualifications & Skills:
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills
Strong organization and time management skills
Self-motivated
Able to plan and communicate the product roadmap to internal / external stakeholders
Takes initiative to manage, prioritize, and anticipate customer needs
Understands what is most important to deliver next
Effective at managing competing priorities and/or projects
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum 3+ years Product Owner experience
Minimum 2+ years experience using agile methodology
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
Onsite in Moscow
Fully fluent in English
Desirable:
Salesforce Administrator Certification
Other Salesforce Certifications
Product Owner Certification
Russian or Spanish.
