Product owner

Product owner

Summary of role

• Leads a team of developers and subject matter experts to envision, prioritize and build digital government products
• Has a deep understanding of the target solution end-state and the required actions to get to it

Responsibilities

• Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders, the development and expert team.
• End-to-end team output strategy from initial planning to production
• Accountable for product-specific KPIs once the solution enters production and communicates regular monitoring updates to stakeholders
• Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team. Maintain a backlog 2 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
• Facilitates sprint reviews and updates all relevant parties with key project updates and potential risk
• Collaborates effectively and works closely with the team on a daily basis

Required qualifications & experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in information systems, data analytics, data science, computer science, economics, risk management, business administration or another related field
• 6+ years of government technology and / or related product experience
• Intimate knowledge of data-processes and analytical use-cases
• Proven domain knowledge of standard concepts. practices, and procedures within the oraganisation HR and workforce planning
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and managing digital HR solutions
• Proven ability to understand and prioritize user needs and development backlog
• Proven ability to take full ownership of the workstream, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
• Skilled in structuring and decomposing to enable effective solution development and implementation
• Strong communication with cross-functional teams from tech, design, and domain experts
• Effective collaboration, experience in leading teams working with Scrum/Agile & task tracking