Product Owner

Job Summary:

We are looking to add a Product Owner, with a real passion for technology, who will organize and own our roadmaps and provide valuable input regarding the shape of the product for EM Labs development team in Changsha, China!

It is a great opportunity to work in a tech-driven company. In a relaxed and friendly environment, our headquarters are in the heart of the city, at Runhe Financial Center, full of interesting and challenging projects.

The EM Labs team is responsible for prototyping and early-stage Minimum Viable Product development for new and experimental features or applications. This is an opportunity to work with teams working on the cutting edge of technology, in a fast-paced environment solving new challenges in innovative ways. Great communication skills with diverse stakeholders, and an ability to quickly understand new products and business needs, are essential.

Company Intro:

EveryMatrix is a leading B2B SaaS provider delivering iGaming software, content and services. We provide casino, sports betting, platform and payments, and affiliate management to 200 customers worldwide. The company is profitable, has over EUR 100m in annual revenues, and more than 1000 employees in offices across ten countries in Europe, Asia and the US. EveryMatrix was founded in 2008 and remains a founder-owned private company.

Responsibilities:

• Take lead of an agile team as the Product Owner;
• Become the key Point of Contact and relationship partner with the Product Managers - situated in offices around Europe, Asia and the US - in the business units who will be your customers;
• Work with project stakeholders to define project scope, goals, deliverables, resources and schedule;
• Work with the technical team to understand challenges, plan and deliver features and balance technical debt resolution with business directives;
• Break down business requirements to a manageable level, workable by the development team;
• Ensure project documentation is done, complete and easily available;
• Effectively manage the product scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved;
• Provide a product schedule to identify when each task should be performed; work with Jira and Confluence to control and guide the agile delivery process;
• Effectively deliver presentations to key stakeholders and top-management;
• Take full ownership of the features backlog, their prioritization and the proposed system solution;
• Ensure that the development team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on;
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals;
• Facilitate and participate in the daily Scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives;

Requirements:

• At least 3 years of experience in any of the following: product management/ ownership or business analysis;
• Strong English-language, verbal and written;
• Communication and negotiation skills; presentation skills with a business analysis/ SWOT focus; ability to reason with stakeholders and prove that a certain approach benefits the product; ability to converse with Software Development teams;
• Ability to prioritize tasks/ objectives with strong organizational, administrative and analytical skills;
• Ability to work across a wide range of differing projects at the same time in an efficient manner within a dynamic environment;
• Experience in identifying industry leaders, compiling feature comparisons with positive differentiators and creating specifications that achieve the same or better results;
• Demonstrate a passion toward continuous Product Improvement;
• High levels of commitment and responsibility;
• Interest in and knowledge of the latest technology and trends;
• Highly organized and self-motivated, able to see a job through to conclusion;
• An analytical mind-set with the ability to translate business cases and analysis into tangible outcomes;
• Ability to determine development priorities, balancing strategic goals and short-term tactical developments, taking into account resource limitations;
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.

Work Life Balance:

• 40% work from home over any 3-month (can work one month per quarter abroad);
• Extra leave days for every year at the company – 43 days including public holidays by year 5 of employment;
• To support women candidates, we offer 100% work from home until the child’s first birthday for mothers;
• Men receive 4 weeks of paternity leave and can work from home until the child is 13 weeks old;
• 10 sick leaves per year with no doctor’s certificate requirement.

Benefits and Office perks:

• Daily catered lunch allowance;
• A flexible schedule;
• Our own in-house gym, health & well-being programs;
• Fruits Wednesday;
• Access to online learning platforms Udemy for Business and O’Reilly and budget for external training;
• Frequent office events and team building activities in different locations;
• A fun entertainment corner;
• A great office space – come and see them for yourself.