Product Owner (interaction with EST time zone)

Madfish; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital learning platform company is seeking a motivated Product Owner to facilitate project communication between the development team and CTO. The ideal candidate will transform project features into actionable guidelines, review deliverables, and maintain effective collaboration in a remote setting. Experience in facilitation rather than technical skills is essential. You will join a vibrant team dedicated to enhancing educational experiences through technology.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills to guide developers effectively.
• Ability to review and QA completed work efficiently.
• Experience working in remote and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Transform feature descriptions from CTO into actionable items for developers.
• Maintain communication with developers and address their queries.
• Conduct review/QA of developments before final handoff to CTO.

Skills

Communication with developers

UI/UX basics

Project management

Tools

Jira

Slack

GitHub

Job description

Requirements:

We’re looking for a Product Owner who could:

• take the description of the feature and notes from the project's CTO and turn it into something that provides more guidance to the developer(s), including some UI/UX where needed;
• then during the project - communicate with developers, handle questions, and only route them to the CTO when necessary;
• finally, when the developer is complete, do a review/QA to identify obvious things before they get to the CTO for a final review.

Experience as a developer is not necessary, though it could be useful in communication with developers. Code review and technical decisions would still be handled by the dev team members and the CTO.

Time zone:

EST (interaction with EST time zone)

Job Type:

Full-time, long-term

Work Location:

Remote

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

The Client is an educational technology company (USA) that provides a digital learning platform for teachers to create, manage, and deliver interactive assignments. The platform was launched in September 2020.

The product has about 25,000 active teachers and 100k students.

Currently using Jira for project management / Slack for communication / GitHub for code.

The team consists of 5 full-stack and 1 front-end developer, based in America and Ukraine.

• Mission: To help teachers find supplemental learning resources, discover best practices in deploying digital materials, and provide tools to create interactive learning content to improve student learning.
• Background: The platform was "born in one classroom and raised up by thousands of teachers" across the country, with ongoing feedback from educators shaping its features.

Platform Features

The platform is designed to free up teachers' time by streamlining the assignment process and offering robust features, including:

• Content Creation: Teachers can digitize existing PDFs or create new activities from scratch, incorporating multimedia elements like simulations and hyperlinks.
• Assignment Management: The platform allows teachers to manage student assignments, monitor performance, and sync with services like Google Classroom rosters.
• Automatic Grading: Features such as automatic grading and real-time feedback save time for educators and provide immediate results for students.
• AI Integration: The platform includes an AI-powered Content Assistant designed to help educators with lesson preparation and curriculum development, while keeping AI interaction on the teacher's side.
• Collaboration: Teachers can add co-teachers to assignments, facilitating collaboration and easy modification of materials for students with special needs.

Tech stack:

Frontend - React, VanillaJS

Backend - Python / Django

AI - Anthropic Cloud

Infrastructure - AWS / Postgres

If you are up to the challenge, we’d love to hear from you.