This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cambridge based team, working for the world leader in an expanding market place.

As a PO you will work with a great agile team delivering web and mobile applications, ensuring that the team delivers as much business value as possible from the managed backlog. You will work with Product Management to understand the product roadmap and customer need in order to populate the backlog with the agreed priority. You will also lead SW releases, feeding the status to the Product Release Manager.

What you will be doing

• Manage and prioritize the team backlog according customer needs and customer value, which should ultimately deliver the maximum business performance.
• Decomposing product features from the roadmap/program backlog into matured and estimated user stories that can be achieved in a single sprint. Quality user stories enable developers to implement the right functionality and schedule their work.
• Manage daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives, and monitoring the progress of the sprint.
• Guide the team with well-communicated information.
• Ensure the scrum team is never blocked or without information regarding team backlog items leading up to and during sprints.
• Define acceptance criteria that enable developers to write acceptance tests demonstrating business value.
• Accept or reject user stories delivered by the team by validating that stories meet the acceptance criteria and that each story has appropriate acceptance test results.

What you need to have

• Indepth understanding of the Product Owner role with a proven track record in delivering web and mobile app software products.
• Excellent communication skills in English, written and spoken and able to demonstrate the ability to write clear, well thought through and concise user stories.
• Ability to fully understand the customer value drivers relating to the team backlog.
• Deep understanding of the technical aspects of the project and ability to create clear team backlog items based on sometimes conflicting/unclear requirements.
• Good understanding of software engineering.
• Indepth knowledge and extensive working knowledge of agile methodology, including scrum, SAFe and XP.
• Excellent communication and moderating skills across all business levels.

What we offer

• Chance to work on exciting new products in a fast-growing business, with a great opportunity for personal growth.
• Competitive salary and benefits, including private health care and stock options

Job Type: Full-time