Product Owner

Do you want to work for the market leading SaaS-based Product Information Management (PIM) software provider? Are you looking for a culture with a strong entrepreneurial spirit driven by a sales-oriented leadership team?

inRiver is a highly ambitious, global company with great growth in the SaaS industry. At inRiver, you are guided by our values and work in an entrepreneurial atmosphere. You team up with amazingly talented team where our strong High Five culture provides a collaborative platform to support our globally growing organization.

As the inRiver Product Owner
You will be realizing the inRiver product vision and strategy by translating initiatives and epics into actionable user stories that drive value. Collaborating with Product Management in gathering requirements from users and other stakeholders. Working with Product Development and ensuring the backlog is groomed and prioritized and acceptance criteria have been written.

Reporting to the Director Product Management, the Product Owner leads the breakdown of epics into features and user stories. Manages the product backlog whilst driving agile scrum meetings and serving as a gatekeeper towards development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads backlog grooming ensuring work items have estimates and clear costs
• Represents the voice of the customer towards development teams
• Contributes to product management and product development process development
• Consults with Product Managers, users, and other stakeholders as part of requirement gathering
• Attends scrum meetings including standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning
• Liaises with product development, ensuring work items originating there have requirements and acceptance criteria
• Crafts feature documentation, including release notes and Service Center articles
• Accepts completed user stories from product development and ensure acceptance criteria are fulfilled
• Creates mockups/wireframes and collaborates with Product Design 

Requirements 

• BA in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant field
• At least 3 years of experience working as a Product Owner or similar
• Business Level English
• Understanding of Agile processes and principles
• Experience with writing software development requirements
• Understanding of systems and technologies that make up the marketing technology landscape (examples)
• Hands-on experience creating wire-frames and mock-ups
• Knowledgeable in project management processes
• Basic understanding of UX concepts and UI patterns

Our core values mean everything to us

• We act responsibly
• We have fun 
• We take action
• We simplify
• We are trustworthy

- No one of us is as smart as all of us!

If you like what you see – you might well be our next inRivierian. We look forward to hearing from you!