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VITEC Product Owner Opportunity
VITEC have a fantastic opportunity to join our R&D team in Dalgety Bay as a Product Owner. The role is in office and the successful person will act as the voice of the customer and stakeholders for the R&D team.
VITEC’s UK division is based in Dalgety Bay, Scotland, a leading IPTV and digital signage provider worldwide. Our values and solutions have formed the foundation of a reputation which has allowed us to build a global list of recognised customers.
Already an engineering centre, Dalgety Bay has expanded to be one of two core shipping hubs for VITEC worldwide. Our reach includes a presence on every continent, providing multilingual sales and support around the world via a supportive and highly valued network of customers, channel partners and consultants.
About the Role
As part of the R&D team, reporting to the local Head of R&D, the Product Owner manages the product backlog for key products within the VITEC group. This includes creating, maintaining and tracking all tasks associated with new features, changes to existing features, handling defects and bugs to be fixed.
The Product Owner acts as the voice of the customer and stakeholders for the R&D team. As such they are an essential communication asset between the Product Manager (and sometimes the customer) and the R&D team.
The Product Owner focuses on internal inbound needs and is the key to translating the Product Management roadmap to a successful deliverable in terms of feature set and time to market.
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- Product Requirements: Translate stakeholder needs and product strategy from Product Management into actionable user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria for the R&D team via the R&D tool (Jira).
- Prioritize Development Work: Create and maintain the feature backlog, prioritize items based on the product roadmap to ensure the product delivers the highest possible business value.
- Product backlog management: Ensure work in progress meets product requirements through acceptance and UX criteria, guiding changes as needed before and after completion.
- Work Closely with Development Team: Guide the development team on how to build features and interactions using domain knowledge and set development priorities in accordance with the product roadmap and R&D process and technologies.
- Ensure Development Process Compliance and Transparent reporting: Collaborate with the development team leads and Program Manager to ensure the process is followed, and deadlines are met. Report any deviation compared to initial plans ensure all stakeholders are informed.
About You
You’ll have:
- Experience in either product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a related field.
- Knowledge: A strong understanding of how users interact with the products - Insight into product development, user needs and stakeholder management. Knowledge of Agile, Scrum and similar product development approaches and you’ll also understand product life cycles, road maps and strategy.
- Skills:
- Detail oriented and execution driven.
- Negotiation: manage competing priorities and stakeholder demands.
- Leadership: guide teams and influence stakeholders (without direct line management).
- Communication: the ability to communicate complex systems and ideas across R&D and Product Management departments.
- Decision-making: the ability to make timely and effective decisions based on product goals and customer needs.
- Empathy: Understanding and advocating for customer needs.
- Focus: the ability to prioritize and manage the product backlog and avoid distractions.
- Problem solver mindset: the ability to identify problems and propose solutions that align with the product vision and strategy.
- Conflict resolution.
- Risk: clarifies any ambiguity as much as possible with the Product Management team otherwise using best judgment to resolve.
- Results evaluation: the ability to measure and analyse the outcomes and impacts of product development and delivery.
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