Here at Mindera, we are building a world-class team and would love for you to join us. As a Product Owner with a strong technical background, you will use your experience with Agile methodologies and your deep understanding of the SDLC to lead a team of developers crafting solutions.
Working with our team, you will be involved in the product life cycle, gathering and refining playable requirements, defining, working closely with the development and business; and leveraging solid communication with the stakeholders to guarantee constant progress and alignment.
We are looking for Product Owner who have experience working with development teams and can be the first point of contact for clients and business stakeholders.
Expected travelling time (UK and USA): 0%-15%, varies according to project/client. You will be working with teams across different time zones and locations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams
- Proven track record of management skills in areas such as conflict resolution, multi-reporting, roadmap planning and backlog management.
- A software engineering background with the ability to comfortably speak in technical jargon
- Proven ability to analyse product use cases and requirements from all points of the SDLC, including the architecture, development, testing, and deployment phases (Note: you will not be required to provide architectural or coding solutions, but you must be comfortable participating in discussions about these topics and influencing and providing input from a business and client requirements standpoint)
- Proven experience leading engineering teams
- Experience with international projects and remote teams across multiple locations.
- Effective communication skills
What you will be doing:
- Mentor the team as an Agile advocate and continuous improvement processes
- Manage conflicts and impediments if/as they arise and coach the team on managing them
- Ensure all stakeholders are up to date on the team's progress and deliverables status by maintaining an open and honest communications
- Provide clear reports with different specifications for different audiences
- Leverage your prior technical/coding experience to triage development and QA tickets based on business and customer priorities
- Own and supervise the product backlog, story writing, project roadmap and dependencies
- Translate the product features into well-defined product requirements including features, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Work with development teams, software architects and business stakeholders to collaborate, set and communicate release schedules, dates and scope
- Ensuring your team’s delivery against the agreed plan
- Influencing the product vision definition and break it into smaller and incremental deliverables
- Assist in the identification of market opportunities
- Planning and executing the end-to-end product development lifecycle
Benefits
The Things We Really Care About:
- Health Insurance, because health comes first
- Flexible working hours
- Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
- Profit distribution for everyone
- Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
- Training & conferences, create your own training plan
- Child Care vouchers
Other Good Things:
- Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
- Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
- We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
- At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
- Partnerships with local businesses
Most of all you get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.
About Mindera
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.
Our culture reflects our lean and self-management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
Check out our Blog and our Handbook!
Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil
