Product Owner

Numerator; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Business Analyst to join their team. The candidate will help shape product strategies through data-driven decision making and effective stakeholder communication, focusing on Agile methodologies. Ideal candidates will have experience in ecommerce or digital marketing, and a relevant educational background.

Qualifications

• Experience as a product owner and working with Agile delivery methodologies.
• Proven track record of prioritizing data-driven decisions.
• Experience in ecommerce or digital marketing, preferably in market research.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy and provide direction to the Scrum team.
• Prioritize stories and features for maximum value:cost ratio.
• Maintain excellent stakeholder communication.

Skills

Data-driven decision making

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Master's degree or relevant certifications

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Business Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background as a Product Owner working with Agile delivery methodologies, coupled with a proven track record of making data driven decisions on requirements and deliverables. This role is crucial in ensuring our product strategies align with business goals and deliver maximum value to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy together with the Business Owner and Product Manager, providing vision and direction via clear Road Map to the Scrum team and stakeholders throughout the product development and lead effective brainstorming with all relevant parties.

• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritise stories, and features to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value:cost ratio that enhance the product to ensure maximum conversions taking into account the Worldpanel plus strategy and the technical features that can help achieve that.

• Managing trade-offs between cost, time to market, return on investment and long-term strategic alignment

• Write high-quality detailed user stories for large features with little-no errors where products achieve successful outcomes consistently

• Working with the Global Business Owner and Product Manager to identify and communicate a product roadmap that’s takes into account business and technical features

• Effectively prioritising local country and global product feature requirements against a backdrop of strategic priorities

• Working with Product Manager and Head of Development to plan feature road map and roll out of features to markets

• Maintaining a backlog in place, which reflects and balances the needs of stakeholders across business and technology

• Ensuring the successful delivery of product features

• Ensuring successes are celebrated

• Maintaining excellent stakeholder communication

• Acting as an advocate for the product across Worldpanel and Kantar

• Identifying additional needs/opportunities beyond key stakeholders

• Owning relevant backlogs and working with BA to ensure user stories and acceptance criteria are defined.

Requirements

• Experience as a product owner working with Agile delivery methodologies

• Proven track record of prioritising and making data-driven decisions on requirements and deliverables in a rapidly changing environment where the best outcome is achieved

• Experience of working in ecommerce or digital marketing preferably in the market research industry

• Experience working closely with offshore development teams

• Working with and managing stakeholders from all levels across the organization

• Desirable to have App Product Development Experience

• Desirable to understand how to maximise conversions from the App Perspective

• Desirable to come from a software development background

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• A Master's degree or relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, PMI-PBA) would be an added advantage.