Are you an innovative and ambitious professional eager to excel in a dynamic environment?
Join XTEL, a leader in providing advanced, AI-driven solutions to consumer goods companies.
Our unique combination of cutting-edge technology, industry expertise, and data management accelerates profitable revenue growth and value realization.
As a Product Owner at XTEL you work with our agile teams to design, build and deliver our products.
You play a key role in translating and delivering our customers business requirements into production software.
You are the go-to person for your product area.
**Are we a phenomenal fit?
We are looking for someone who..**
- Is with a can-do attitude
- whether it's sorting out a knotty problem or calming a stressed-out collaborator, can you look on the forward-thinking side?
- Is Original - we love to hear ideas on how we can be doing things differently so that we can all be more engaged and successful with our clients.
- Makes and takes Opportunities - are you the kind of person who will step up and volunteer to take something on, even if it's outside of your comfort zone?
- Takes Ownership - for the team!
You use your strengths to help us grow together.
- Has an Open Mind - we favor constructive feedback given in a kind way and appreciate the same in return.
- Is fantastic communicator - you've got top-notch written and verbal skills in English and know how to put them to great use in everyday stakeholder management.
Our **Product Owner **will...
- Work closely with the other product owners and engineering team to help design solutions for business use cases and provide input for the product roadmap
- Ensure your scrum team(s) have enough business context for the solutions to be built and feel comfortable taking ownership of our solutions
- Gather requirements, define and communicate backlog based on customer outcomes
- Specify features and write user stories in terms of outcomes and user flows, aided by visual tools where appropriate, and with clear acceptance criteria
- Represent the targeted end users in backlog grooming sessions and ensure that complex features are appropriately scoped and broken down in the backlog
- Work closely with other product owners to ensure your solutions are aligned
- Work closely with the product design team to design effective end-to-end user experiences
- Work closely with product architects to prioritize and clarify business value of technical enablers on the backlog for your module
- Work with the scrum team to adjust where required through scope adjustment or expectation management
- Build close relationships and rapport with the scrum teams
- Champion incremental improvement in processes and foster an environment that encourages all team members to contribute.
- Provide support (i.e.
last level of support) to the other PO teams when requested, and in alignment with the priorities agreed with the Product manager.
- 2-5 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role in a software company.
- Experience in Trade Promo Management, pricing, promotions, or revenue optimization
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Good english mandatory.
- Ability to convey complex concepts to various stakeholders.
- You rather ask "why" than "how" and "what"
**These are a plus**:
- Have affinity with design thinking/user centred design techniques including methods in user research, usability assessment, interaction design, and visual user interface design
- Familiarity in Product Management tools.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Familiarity in Product Management tools.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Familiarity with SaaS platforms and agile methodologies.
- Experienced in gathering and validating functional requirements and user needs with various stakeholders (internally and externally)
- Data Analysis / Economic Analysis / Financial Analysis
- Strong orientation towards understanding and meeting customer needs.
- Ability to align product strategy with business objectives
- Ability to constructively explore, inquire, challenge stakeholder ideas
**What will you get**:
- Challenging position in a fast-growing AI-driven revenue management company.
- Being a part of a diverse and international team with a strong ownership and can-do mentality.
- The opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the continued growth and development of the organization.
- A cross-functional role that spans across geographies and departments in the company.
- Flexible working with possibility of hybrid work (the company HQ is based in Bologna).
- We as a team have a passion for learning and growing to be the best version of ourselves.
Do you have strengths you can share?
If so, we'd love to hear from you.
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