Senior Product Owner/Product Manager

The project is a Scandinavian national betting agency. It was fully owned by the government and held an exclusive legal betting license for lotteries and sports betting across the Scandinavian region.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working as a Product Owner in iGaming projects
• 5+ years of experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban for effectively managing product backlogs and leading sprint planning sessions
• Strong understanding of iGaming platforms, regulatory requirements, and market trends
• Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software and product development life cycles
• Semi-technical proficiency with an ability to liaise with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Clear understanding of principles and specifics of customer development lifecycle
• Extensive knowledge of product management activities, techniques, and best practices
• Knowledge of prototyping tools and modeling approaches
• Solid knowledge of key business analysis tasks, requirements engineering techniques, project tracking tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
• Experience with crypto

Nice to have:

• Web3.0
• Experience in leading team of Product Managers/Product Owners
• Experience in pre-sales and developing technical proposals will be beneficial

Personal competencies:

• Communication and negotiation skills, high levels of commitment and responsibility
• Presentation skills with a business analysis/ SWOT focus
• Ability to converse with Software Development teams
• Ability to prioritize tasks/ objectives with strong organizational, administrative and analytical skills
• Demonstrate a passion toward continuous Product Improvement
• Interest in and knowledge of the latest technology and trends
• Ability to determine development priorities, balancing strategic goals and short-term tactical developments, taking into account resource limitations

Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of the features backlog, their prioritization based on business priorities and user needs
• Work with the technical team to understand challenges, plan and deliver features and balance technical debt resolution with business directives
• Effectively manage the product scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved
• Provide a product schedule to identify when each task should be performed; work with Jira and Confluence to control and guide the agile delivery process
• Maintains roadmap within the investment frame and guidance provided by client
• Break down business requirements to a manageable level, workable by the development team
• Together with the team and product stakeholders, elaborate detailed and executable user stories and software requirements and define acceptance criteria for all user stories
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Facilitate and participate in the daily Scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives
• Main point of contact between the development team, client Business Users and other departments/units
• Manage expectations of stakeholders on the regular basis
• Effectively deliver presentations to key stakeholders and top-management including status updates for project stakeholders on the regular basis
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Ensure project documentation is done, complete and easily available
• Be ultimately responsible for delivering the product to the client

Responsivities with further growth of engagement:

• Develop and communicate the product vision and strategy in alignment with business goals
• Conduct market research to understand industry trends
• Gather and analyze user feedback to inform product improvements and updates
• Monitor product performance using key performance indicators (KPIs) and make data-driven decisions to optimize the product.