Product Owner Web (Z-0117)

Merlin Digital Partner is a tailor-made digital recruitment company for startups, scale-ups and corporates. We were born in Tech Barcelona where we established one of our main offices.

We are a dynamic and young team, tech & digital lovers, and truly committed with our candidates. We really believe in long-term relationships and not only in technical matches, so that we become the best brand ambassador for our partners.

Our main goal is to build solid bonds with our partners and candidates by a honest and transparent communication.

We are currently looking for a Product Owner Web for our partner.

Our partner is the technology platform for digital magazines, which proposes a new reading experience on any device.

They have grown a lot with over 750M digital magazine editions, more than 8,5K titles from 1.3K publishers in 200 countries to over 10M customers. To continue to expand and assist in the development of the brand.

Role:

• Act as Product Owner for one Scrum team being the empowered central point of the Web product portfolio leadership as representative of the business requirements within the technical teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and influence them to align with the product vision. Negotiate and find consensus among all involved parties so that a well-balanced solution is achieved matching the company needs.
• Manage the Web development team priorities according to return of investment, size, roadmaps, and sprint commitments. Embrace iterative and value-driven development.
• Able to provide a product roadmap and keep it evolving as the product changes.
• Create good user stories, requirements, and supporting materials such as wireframes, user flows, or any other element that might help developers and stakeholders understand the needs.
• Communicate with the UX team in the creation of designs and user interactions for the user stories that fit the user s needs and ensure technical feasibility
• Create and communicate the product backlog and keep it well organized. Maintain it updated and by collaborating with the Scrum Team keep it groomed to allow the team estimations.
• Participate in planning sessions: portfolio and product planning, release planning, sprint planning, story mappings. Prepare and participate in groomings with the team. Participate in the sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Collaborate hand in hand with the development team and be able to attend to their questions in a short time.

We need:

• Experience as a Product Owner (at least 2-3 years) taking full responsibility for web products with an orientation to e-commerce
• Agile and Scrum knowledge and experience.
• Analytic skills and data-driven development experience, as well as usage of A/B testing methodologies.
• Domain Skills: experience in Web solutions and E-commerce.
• People Skills: good communicator; can build good relationships with stakeholders; negotiator/consensus builder; motivate the Scrum Team explaining the product vision; experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Decision Making: you are empowered to make decisions; willing to make hard decisions; decisive; take an economic view to balance business/technical tasks.
• Accountability: you accept responsibility for the product; committed and available; act as a Scrum team member and not as a manager.
• Leadership: able to influence stakeholders' decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, fluent level of English.
• Passion to create worldwide first-class products.

We value:

• PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner)
• CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)
• PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) certified.

We offer:

• The opportunity to work in a multicultural environment and manage a world-class team.
• Amazing office (and views!).
• Hybrid work: 1 day / week in office
• Training budget.
• Flexible schedule and working from home.
• Flexible salary plan (health insurance, meal, and public transportation cards).
• Fresh fruit, tea & good (unlimited) coffee.

You will love working with them because:

• They lead the sector of their activity and they are always facing challenging new projects.
• They are a technology company, and they invest in technology!
• They have a highly skilled team so you can learn from your colleagues: knowledge sharing is strongly encouraged and lived.
• They do team tech meetups now and then to investigate promising technologies.
• Training budget for those books and courses that will benefit you.
• Agile/ Scrum way of working and philosophy.
• You will be part of a multicultural team, working with different countries and time zones.
• They have a fun, friendly & international work environment.