Job Title: Senior Product Manager (Technical)
Juriba is the leading software provider for large scale digital transformation and Evergreen management. We are a forward-thinking, creative ISV with a passion for bringing harmony to the chaotic world of data and business process. You will be part of an ambitious company and a friendly team working on our flagship product, Dashworks – a data warehousing and workflow tool unlike anything else on the market. Our clients are large companies (many Fortune 500) with lots of data about their Desktop environment, but very little information. Dashworks helps them make sense of it all and get their migration projects flying.
Our people are our biggest asset
As a privately owned company, we have an approachable and engaged leadership. We’re small enough to operate as a close-knit team, with an open and unpolitical atmosphere. Yet big enough to offer multiple career paths, a diverse work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference. Juriba’s success is based on our agile and growth-driven mindset, our focus on innovation and continuous improvement, as well as our encouraging and supportive environment.
Description of the role
As we embark on an ambitious project to take Dashworks to the cloud, we are looking for a pragmatic and strong product owner who will bring previous experience of successful delivery to our application. You will be responsible for leading a team of 8 area & feature product owners and growing. Reporting to the CTO, you will be coming into a key role in the organization with the autonomy to really drive change and make a difference.
A typical week may involve:
· Line and performance management of your team
· Hands on coaching and mentoring
· Recruiting and onboarding new colleagues
· Chairing internal feedback forums and external customer focus groups
· Owning the product style guide and protecting of the consistency of the user experience
· Leading the development of the prototypes
· Building domain knowledge of the systems and technologies we integrate with
· Driving mechanisms to ascertain business value
· Ensuring best practice in acceptance criteria and Maintaining guidelines
· Being the primary liaison for stakeholders
· Issuing serious bug reports
· Challenging the status quo and current thinking
· Developing and reporting on KPIs, OKRs and meaningful flow metrics
· Driving continuous improvement
· Structuring and delivering honest, clear and effective feedback that supports development
· Continuous learning and updating your knowledge
· Assisting your team to:
o Manage the roadmap
o Refine & prioritise the product backlog
o Liaise with customers and customer facing staff to understand requirements
Key skills and knowledge
· Experience and understanding of agile methodologies, particularly the product owner role
· Design thinking and a human-centered approach
· Analytical thinking and problem solving
· Passion for company culture
· Detail orientated approach
· Highly structured and organised
· Broad technical knowledge including databases and end user systems
· Delivery focussed approach
· Exceptional people skills including coaching and mentoring
· Excellent communication in a variety of scenarios at all levels
· Good knowledge of the latest industry developments and thinking
Benefits:
· Flexible working arrangements — work the way you are most productive
· Competitive base salary, benchmarked and reviewed annually
· Generous vacation/holiday time
· Profit sharing and pension plan
· Unlimited access to online training (& classroom training where required)
· Employee Assistant Program (via Perkbox)
· Employee discounts with major retailers (via Perkbox)
· Online fitness (via Perkbox)
· Cycle to work scheme(s)
· Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)
· Monthly social events (when allowed)