Product Owner
London / Porto / Poland / Ireland
Product – Product /
Full-time /
Remote
Paydock is a dynamic fintech scaleup, dedicated to delivering industry leading orchestration solutions to financial institutions, major household brand retailers and non-profit organizations worldwide. Our teams are located internationally, with a global presence spanning 11 countries. We embody a culture of collaboration, innovation and high-performance, relentlessly pushing the boundaries of fintech innovation to make a meaningful impact on a global scale.
A Product Owner (PO) plays a critical role in representing the business requirements in an agile development environment. They ensure that the development team understands the product development required within the overall product strategy. The PO acts as a bridge between stakeholders and the agile development team, translating business requirements into actionable tasks and user stories.
Responsibilities
- Regularly update and refine their product backlog, ensuring that each item is clearly articulated, actionable and prioritised based on guidance from the Head of Product and PMs - prioritisation considerations being business value, customer needs and potential impact on the overall product & merchant experience.
- Assist the PO team with backlog management, issue resolution and alignment/prioritisation setting
- Engage extensively with stakeholders, internal teams, external partners and customers to gather detailed specifications for each required development. This involves breaking down high-level objectives into specific user stories with clear acceptance criteria for the development team
- Assess team capacity, understand technical implications and select tasks for the upcoming sprint in alignment with business objectives.
- Own the measuring and reporting process for key metrics designed to ensure continuous monitoring and improvement of the performance of the development process (across all teams) e.g. Story Point tracking, cycle times, estimate v actual effort per development, etc
Must-Have Skills & Criteria
- Able to assess requests from multiple sources and prioritise tasks
- Ability to engage stakeholders to ensure business requirements are collated and shared
- Analytical skills to break down development requests into user stories
What is it like to work at Paydock?
At the heart of our success is our people-driven ethos, and we take pride in putting our employees first. We offer a wide range of exciting incentives that are designed to enhance your work-life balance, including flexible working arrangements, an attractive annual leave package, and various well-being initiatives. But that's not all - we also care about your financial future, which is why we offer competitive pension contributions and other insurance benefits.
We believe that investing in our employees' well-being is the key to driving long-term success and growth.
If you're looking for a dynamic and rewarding work environment that values your personal and professional growth, then look no further. If you want to join the Paydock family - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.
Paydock is an equal-opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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