Product Owner / Requirements Analyst
Belgrade
We are currently looking for an experienced Product Owner / Requirements Analyst who is ready to join our AVA team, an award-winning startup company based in Zurich. Their wearable device, smart app and proprietary predictive algorithms, empower women by giving them unique clinically researched insights and personalized data about their menstrual cycle, fertile window and pregnancy. All delivered in a way that’s convenient and non-invasive.
Would you like to join us on our challenging adventure? To strengthen our team, we are looking for a flexible, communicative and project-driven individual who will represent the link between the Product Manager and the Development Team and ensure smooth development of Ava’s future product offerings.
As a Product Owner you will:
- Convey the product vision to the scrum team in collaboration with the Product Manager
- Prioritize Product Backlog, align priorities and scope of product with stakeholders
- Ensure user stories are ready to implement before sprint planning (according to the DoR)
- Define sprint goals with the Development Team
- Accept / reject the implementation of the user stories according to acceptance criteria
- Act as single point of contact for Development Team during sprints for resolving and clarifying issues during development
- Cooperate closely with internal technical experts, including data scientists, developers, architects, and testers
- Collaborate with Scrum Master to facilitate agile practices: daily stand-ups, grooming meetings, planning meetings, retrospectives, demos.
As a Requirement Analyst you will:
- In close collaboration with the Product Manager and other internal stakeholders, clarify the purpose and intention of the planned software increment and analyze the technical implications
- Structure the (functional and nonfunctional) software requirements into levels of different granularity down to the granularity that allows the software requirements to be implemented by software development
- Ensure that the software requirements are clear, complete, distinct and without contradictions
- Identify edge cases and actively drive the conversation how they are handled
- Ensure the vertical traceability from the product requirements down to the most detailed level
- Document the software requirements according to company’s requirement management guidelines
- Collaborate closely with the Test Manager and QA to ensure that fulfillment of requirements is documented in a compliant manner
- Manage changes to software requirements according to company’s change management guidelines
- Supports the Risks Management regarding criticality rating of requirements
Essential skills and experience:
- University degree (preferable computer science, engineering and similar)
- Ideally CPRE foundation or advanced level, Certified Product Owner or similar certification
- 2+ years of experience as a Scrum Product Owner or Requirements Analyst
- Familiar with software development
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer and business needs and translate them into practical applications and operational solutions
- Comprehensive understanding of common architectures and technologies
- Good understanding of software development processes and life cycle management – prior experience of development in a regulated industry is a big plus
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with track record of coordinating and communicating with different stakeholders (Data Science, Marketing, Software Development, Hardware)
- High standard of personal organization and good project management skills
- Demonstrated ability to balance user needs with business priorities and manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and under pressure to completion
- High self-motivation and drive to develop and implement new products efficiently
- Enjoying a startup culture and being able to cope with uncertainty
- Fluent in English
Benefits:
- The high-growth company in which you can find an exciting and trend-setting challenge
- Amazing product to work on
- The familial working atmosphere in an open-minded multinational team
- All necessary equipment – up to you to decide what you prefer
- The budget for professional improvement (courses, conferences, books…)
- English language lessons during the working hours
- Nice office in Belgrade
- Tournaments of table tennis, table soccer, and darts in our office
- Opportunities to build products that really make a difference
- Opportunities to learn and grow with us
If you are interested in this position and you have all the required qualifications, do not hesitate to send your CV.
Deadline for applications: 15.08.2019.