**Position Summary**
As Product Owner, you will be accountable for executing on the vision for Janison's flagship assessment product. This includes the discovery, design, definition and driving the development of features to enhance the value for our clients. You will play a vital role in helping build Janison Insights to deliver assessments and student insights to schools and education bodies worldwide.
We are looking for someone with a passion for education, an eye for beautiful user experiences and a track record in delivery and discovery. Education, EdTech or SaaS experience will be a great advantage but is not a requirement.
With people around Australia, Singapore, Auckland and London you will work as part of a distributed team. Must be willing to work Australian Eastern Standard Time business hours. Preferably located near one of our offices in Sydney, Coffs Harbour or Melbourne.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
**Product Ownership**
- Execute on the product vision and strategy, targeting the objectives and goals of the Janison Products.
- Accountable for research and presentation of the requirements for Janison's products.
- Accountable for the creation and socialisation of the relevant parts of the product roadmap with all stakeholders across the business.
- Remain in touch with the marketplace and be responsible for competitor analysis.
- Conduct customer and market research to identify potential opportunities and features.
- Consolidate and manage customer feedback and transform into product ideas to be prioritised.
- Gather and validate new ideas for the product.
- Holds the Product Owner role in a SCRUM team, working closely with the tech lead, developers and testers to deliver each sprint
- Accountable for creating epics, wireframes and user stories to be consumed by a development team.
- Documents new features and create release notes.
- Accountable, working closely with the UX team, to design the UI of the Janison products.
- Play a leading role in the agile ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, refinement and review) with a product scrum team.
**Support**
- Support presales activities to identify product market fit, highlight product unique selling points and assess whether development is required.
- Engage stakeholders from all areas of the business to market, sell, deliver and support the product.
**Experience, Skills and Qualifications**
- A passion for education.
- Experience as a product owner, product manager or business analyst developing, managing and launching products.
- Experience with Agile scrum methodology including creating and managing epics, stories and tasks.
- Able to develop user journey maps to assist in designing a great UX.
- Ability to create wireframes and work with UX/UI designers to create beautiful experiences.
- Strong business analysis experience, running client workshops to gather requirements and translate them into functional requirements for both the development teams and clients.
- Ability to learn on the go, quickly acquire broad and deep knowledge of a product.
- Experience with software releases including documenting release notes and user guides.
- Excellent presentation skills to demo software to clients.
- Understanding and ability to interpret analytics to monitor product performance and user behaviours.
- Ability to generate ideas for new products and features, validate the ideas and contribute to a product roadmap.