Title: Product Owner – B2B Software
Reporting to: Head of Software Delivery
Location: London, UK
Do you love challenges?
Are you familiar with agile ways of working?
Would you like to know more about renewable energy in developing countries and make an impact on millions of energy poor customers?
Are you able to understand business needs and coach a team to make an impact?
Are you interested in B2B software platforms?
About the Role
Working in collaboration with our innovation team (business owners) to translate their needs into agile stories, managing the backlog for your squads, and ensuring business priorities are met.
Responsibilities
Contribute to products and services strategies consistent with the company vision
Produce and prioritise user stories for assigned projects or areas of work
Build, groom, maintain and prioritise the sprint backlog with the development team for the assigned epics or areas of work
Prioritise ideas based on business needs and internal capabilities
Manage the communication of releases to the business for the assigned projects or areas of work
Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
You will have ownership and responsibility for squads working on the next generation of the BBOXX Pulse platform that enables our B2B clients to run their business and to improve end users’ experience to off-grid electricity in over 10 different countries in Africa. Pulse is our software platform that runs our business at scale – we process over one million payments per month and have sent over 100m SMS to our customers.
About you
Strong analytical leader and communicator with a pragmatic attitude
Excellent communicator and enjoy working collaboratively at all levels across the organisation in a fast-paced work environment
Experience in the role of product owner in a scrum agile team
Knowledge in software development both back end and front end
Ability to work with remote teams effectively
Experience in building/working with IOT products desirable
Experience in building data analytics products desirable
Experience defining APIs desirable
Experience integrating finance and supply chain to CRM desirable
Good French language skills an advantage