Our client in the telecommunications industry is seeking a skilled Product Owner to join their team on a contract basis in Johannesburg. As a Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in driving the development and delivery of innovative products and features that meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Minimum requirements
8 years’ experience as product owner
Own, drive, and focus the team on delivery of business value and content
Develop and define user stories and items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap defined by Product Managers
Rank and prioritize user stories and items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
Approve the final release plan and accept all deliverables against defined user stories and acceptance criteria
Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities, and engage stakeholders for communications and decision-making
Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
Acts as single point of business contact for the DevOps team
Manage the financial plan for the delivery team, providing forecasts
Excellent problem solving skills, with the ability to minimize overhead tasks for the team and manage interdependences with other teams
Excellent relationship building and influencing skills, with the ability to foster an inclusive team culture
Excellent business acumen and understanding of the role of the capability in contributing to business value
In-depth understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital. Services market and emerging business and technology trends
A strong customer-centric focus, with an entrepreneurial and ROL mindset Ability to function with a high degree of autonomy
Strong financial management skills and acumen
Strong time-management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple balls, and comfortable working under pressure
The individual will be responsible for the definition of customer-centric items or
User stories from the capability/feature roadmap defined by the Product
Manager, ranking and prioritizing them, and adding them to the team backlog
Will work closely with the Release Train Engineer/Agile
Programme Manager and Scrum Master in coordinating day to day activities such as sprint planning, retrospectives and other agile functions to ensure collaboration and effective delivery of user stories against commercial Milestone objectives.
Responsible for the prioritization and delivery of the backlog of change initiatives to maximize business benefit of the products and features we offer.

Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field
Job Type:
Contract
Workplace type:
Hybrid
Location:
Johannesburg
Experience Level:
Senior