Product Owner

Why Ness

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

You’ll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities and attractive compensation.

Requirements and responsibilities

What you’ll do

• Work with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand customer expectations and business values of the product
• Work with engineering agile teams across locations on prioritized items from a single backlog
• Write epics and user stories with acceptance criteria for the backlog
• Refine user stories with the agile teams to ensure mutual understanding and accurate sizing
• Manage scope and priority of the backlog
• Provide guidance to agile team during sprint planning and be available for questions and review during the sprint
• Refine and prioritize the backlog in a regular cadence
• Review sprint and accept or reject user story completion based on acceptance criteria
• Coordinate communications between agile team and stakeholders
• Develop project scopes, objectives and milestones, involving all relevant stakeholders (internal and external) and ensuring technical feasibility
• Work with stakeholders to communicate project statuses and identify, address and escalate potential setbacks and risks
• Identify, track and manage risks, and escalate when necessary.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of experience working in agile software teams
• 3+ years of experience working on software projects with Web UI and Web Services
• 3+ years of Agile Product Owner experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• A strong work ethic and sense of accountability
• Experienced with JIRA and Confluence
• Computer Science or equivalent technical degree or relevant work experience
• Experience with remote teams
• Open for time flexible work due to cross time zone teams working on same product

Not checking every single requirement?

If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.