Description: On Behalf of Novafori, Ciklum is looking for a Senior Product Owner to join our Malaga team on a full-time basis. The Senior Product Owner understands our client's business goals and provides direction and leadership to the development teams to maximise the value of our products. This is an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Product Owner to develop and deliver a product roadmap that will enable our clients' ambitions to be realised.Working closely with our client's product manager you will be responsible for leading multiple development teams to deliver results. To be successful in this role you will need excellent communication skills and be able to build trusting relationships across internal and external stakeholders. You will be responsible for ensuring that priorities are understood, clearly communicated, delivered on time, and produce the desired results.Responsibilities:Product ownership for the customer, including definition of roadmap and owning and prioritizing the teams' backlog in a collaborative and proactive manner.Understand the client's problem space and ensure alignment with business and stakeholder goals and our product portfolio strategy.Distilling a product vision and/or business goals into epics, features and user stories that can be estimated and worked on by development teams.Collaborating with development teams and UI/UX teams to further refine user stories and acceptance criteria, including identifying technical, unspoken and non-functional requirements.Line Management and supervision of Business Analyst(s) on team.Lead and facilitate workshops and interviews to clarify business outcomes and elicit user needs, translating them into requirements.Use proven tools and techniques such as Impact Maps, Story Maps, user process flows, Kano and MoSCoW methods, multivariate and cohort analysis, to develop, document and prioritise Epic and Feature requirements.Balance sprints priorities between Discovery (tech debts, automation, etc.) and Delivery (new features), always negotiating with Stakeholders.Increment, release and roadmap planning utilising Agile planning and estimation techniques.Provide leadership to and be active participant in team collaboration events and Scrum sprint ceremonies.Prioritise efforts and identify and manage risks and dependencies within and between inter-connected projects.Responsible for ensuring maximum value delivered by development team including, measurement and reporting on performance and outcomes using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and data driven decision making.Requirements:5+ years' experience in similar role with demonstrable experience in product and project management.Certified in Agile methodologies (Scrum, CSPO).English (fluent, professional proficiency essential) and proven exceptional communication skills.Demonstrable ability of successful product management, including planning and delivery in an Agile environment.A strong appreciation of what makes a great user experience, and how that translates into success for businesses.Experience working directly with customers, developers, and designers.The ability to communicate objectives, plans, status and results clearly, focusing on critical key points.Experience leading feature development or product integrations with lots of moving parts.Ability to anticipate, recognise, and work through resistance or setbacks independently.Leadership skills and ability to drive collaboration across and within teams.Solutions oriented, with a track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.An analytical and inquisitive mind-set with the ability to translate business cases and analysis into tangible benefit for the user.Desirable:Line management experience with at least one direct report.Educated to Degree level.Consultancy experience.Project Management experience and/or certification.Spanish, written and spoken (fluent English is a must).What's in it for you:Remote working approach. We work from home, but we also have very cool offices available - both at the PTA and in the city center of Malaga - to go whenever you want and to facilitate personal interactions and team building events.Unique working environment. We combine very high professional standards, with a friendly, supporting and merit-based environment where you will have the opportunity to learn and to develop.You will communicate and collaborate directly not only with your team but also with our clients.Competitive salary.Possibility to work in a successful company, currently in expansion.Long-term employment with 23 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits, including private health insurance.
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