Drive Change
We're looking for a Technical Product Owner to lead the development of our online booking platform. As a key member of the team, you'll be responsible for driving technical improvements and enabling feature squads to deliver high-quality features.
1. Platform Vision: Define and communicate the long-term platform vision, strategy, and roadmap for the online booking engine, aligning it with business goals and the needs of the feature squads.
2. Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and development teams to identify, gather, and prioritize product requirements and features based on business value and user impact.
3. Elaborate Backlog Items: Create epics and stories, elaborate stories with acceptance criteria to guide delivery of features, communicate backlog items to the squad and be available to provide guidance during sprint.
4. Lead the Squad: Provide leadership to the Online booking engine platform team; clearly communicating your vision, set sprint goals, and remove squad impediments.
5. Uplift the Platform: Enable the feature teams to build and deliver to production with ease through managing upgrades, improving pipelines and managing the underlying infrastructure.
6. Migration Strategy: Develop an approach and strategy to migrate off the current booking engine platform to the new booking engine platform provided by our vendor.
7. Industry Analysis: Follow our competitors and the industry, drive innovation and efficiency.
8. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with the scrum master and team to identify and manage cross-team dependencies.
What You Need
* Tertiary Qualification: Tertiary qualification in Information Systems, Computer Science, or relevant industry experience.
* Product Management: Product management or Product Owner qualification or equivalent experience, preferably in a web-based platform environment.
* Strategic Changes: Experience in delivering strategic, tactical and enterprise-wide changes, projects, and programmes of work.
* Web Technologies: Strong understanding of web technologies, including frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and backend (APIs, server-side technologies) aspects of web development.
* Software Development Methodologies: Knowledge of software development methodologies and best practices.
* Market Research: Experience in conducting market research, competitive analysis, and translating customer needs into product features.
* E-commerce Principles: Familiarity with e-commerce principles, user journeys, and conversion optimisation strategies.
* Agile Methodologies: Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as Scrum or Kanban, with experience leading Agile teams and driving iterative development.
* Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and driving results.
* Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders, engineers, designers, and other teams.
* Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills to interpret data, metrics, and user feedback and a problem-solving mindset, to address technical challenges and risks.
* Adaptability: A growth mindset and eagerness to stay updated on industry trends and ability to adapt to changing requirements.