Product Owner

Kneat Solutions; Limerick; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Limerick is seeking a Product Owner to define and document business requirements for their software platform. The candidate will work directly with customers and stakeholders, transforming needs into detailed specifications while leading and collaborating with the development team. The ideal candidate will have Agile/Scrum experience and excellent communication skills. This role offers competitive salary and flexible work arrangements in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Health benefits

Training & professional development

Qualifications

• Experience of Agile / Scrum methodology essential.
• Proven ability to apply scientific thinking to practical problems.
• Strong customer-facing interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and document business requirements for Kneat Gx.
• Explore business requirements and transform them into functional specifications.
• Collaborate to develop a feature roadmap.

Skills

Strong team player

Agile / Scrum methodology

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Continuous improvement mindset

Self-motivated

Job description

Product Owner

Kneat enables regulated organizations to move from paper-based validation to intelligent, digitized, paperless solutions. And we do it through the ongoing development of a powerful, purpose-built software platform. In 2014, after 8 years of intensive software development, we launched the world’s most advanced validation software to help revolutionize the speed, precision, transparency and intelligence of validation in the Life Sciences sector. The solution is now used by some of the world’s leading Life Sciences companies.

This will be a key role within the Product Management Team working in a highly collaborative manner with our customers, account managers, developers and QC engineers.

You will be responsible for defining and documenting the business requirements for Kneat Gx. You will work directly with our customers and account managers to determine and document their business requirements.

This role requires an experienced person to produce and maintain solution requirement documentation that is easily and clearly understood by both our customers and our delivery team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Working with our customers to explore and understand their business requirements and transform these into detailed functional specifications that can be delivered by our software team.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to develop a feature roadmap that aligns with business objectives.
• Participating in delivery team sprint meetings, sprint planning, Daily Standups, backlog grooming.
• Be the primary go-to person within the delivery team in relation to customer requirements.
• Lead the design and implementation of product demos
• Performing user story decomposition, if required.
• Develop user stories, define acceptance criteria and manage prioritization of product backlog in an agile environment
• Ensuring solution requirements documentation is kept up to date for the duration of the project.
• Develop and deliver regular metrics reports to track progress against business objectives

Necessary Skills

• Strong team player with a results-oriented track record.
• Experience of Agile / Scrum methodology essential.
• The role has a strong customer-facing element, so the candidate must be confident and comfortable in dealing with team members at all levels within the organisation and possess well-developed communication and presentation skills.
• Experience creating software functional specifications and business process flows.
• Proven ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Proven ability to read, analyse, and interpret complex documents and to respond effectively to the most sensitive enquiries or complaints from customers.
• Ability to solve complex problems and take an innovative approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrate a passion for continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate a sense of urgency, proactive approach with a solutions-oriented mindset, adding value by getting things done, accountability & ownership, and the ability to prioritise own workload.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with a continuous learning mindset.

Desirable Skills

• Experience working in life sciences industries or regulated industries.
• Good understanding of high-level software architectural concepts such as data-models, process flows and context diagrams etc.
• Ability to have a positive impact on team members and communicate openly and directly to individuals or groups at all levels.
• Previous software development or quality assurance experience would be a significant advantage.

What We Offer You

At Kneat, we truly value ideas and collaboration and we’ve created an environment that builds, protects and celebrates teamwork. Our strong culture is central to our continued success.

We offer programs and rewards that one would expect from a highly successful and growing technology company:

A fantastic culture, team, energy, and a high-growth successful company

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health benefits
• Training & professional development

We invite interested applicants to share their resume and cover letter.

We operate on a hybrid working basis.

Applicants must have a permanent Irish working visa.

Successful applicants will be subject to references and a background check.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the aforementioned duties and responsibilities satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Kneat is an equal opportunity employer.