Description
IO Global, developer of the Cardano blockchain platform, is looking for a Product Owner to join its Lightwallet team. You will be working with highly skilled people and be responsible for a new light wallet for IOG. This is an opportunity to own a product end-to-end and create a community around it. The project has just started so we are looking for a motivated self-starter who is ready to build and structure a team. Your product choices will directly influence the adoption of Cardano by billions of users, with the DApps and DeFi applications that are being released. As part of this team, you’ll be in contact with external and internal stakeholders who are working on innovations for the 21st century.
Your mission
As a Product Owner you will be engaging with both our community and our commercial partners. Your goal is to understand your end users and solve their pain points. You’ll use your interpersonal skills to explain and elaborate on those pain points to your engineering team and work together to find a solution. You’ll have a deep understanding of your competitors, what they are doing, and where the market is going. You’re well versed in presenting to senior management and creating a compelling case for your product roadmap.
Duties will include:
- User interviews
- Capturing stakeholders’ needs and translating these into high-level features
- Incorporating feature requests into the product roadmap
- Grooming and prioritizing the backlog with project managers and engineers
- Developing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
- Planning releases and upgrades
- Following the progress of work, and addressing production issues during sprints
- Keeping up to date with industry trends
- Commissioning or carrying out market research
- Working with product managers, delivery teams, and tech leaders on common goals
- Owning tactical plans to achieve goals defined in product and company strategy.
Requirements
Your expertise
- Experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product management
- Familiarity with agile, Jira and GitHub is essential
- Hands-on experience managing all stages of the software product life cycle
- Technical background with knowledge of software development (desirable)
- Team spirit and good communication abilities
- Good organizational skills
- Knows how to define APIs, benchmarks and test cases. Understands performance requirements from end users
- A background in distributed computing and strong experience with blockchain technologies (desirable).
Benefits
Location
IOG is a fully distributed organization and therefore this is a remote position. Due to team distribution we are ideally searching for someone in a European or APAC timezone.
All Colleagues
- Flexible schedule
- Remote work - ability to work anywhere
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Competitive PTO and Sick Leave plan
US Employees
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem with 100% premium cost covered by IO Global for the employee and dependents
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
UK Employees
- Monthly Health Stipend to use towards any wellness or medical coverage/service
- Pension
Deadline for applications: 09.10.2021.