Product Owner

As a Product Owner, you will work directly with developers organised into Agile Teams to ensure that the teams’ backlogs are aligned with the needs of the Business and with Customers (including internal customers). Product Owners are the customer advocate within the agile development process. Working alongside Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers, the Product Owners are responsible for ensuring that teams understand the product vision and implement it effectively. Working with the Product Management team, you will contribute to the Product Vision and Roadmap.

We aim to solve education challenges through tech, we picked one stream and developed deep expertise in assessments. Our platform is entirely cloud based with API based products and platforms powering assessment excellence, enabling our customers to provide modern learning platforms to the market. Our Assessment Engine powers more than 130 of the world’s leading learning platforms, having served over 40 million Learners globally and yet we are at times invisible, when we integrate seamlessly into our clients offering!

Our mission is to advance education and learning worldwide with best-in-class technology. We are geeks at heart, we love what we do and we’re looking for passionate and talented people to join our growing team.

Requirements

• Drive the creation of user stories, clarify the details, and assist with breaking down the work and managing dependencies
• Prioritize agile teams' backlogs with appropriate time allocated for enabler stories, technical debt, and bug fixing to balance the needs of customers with internal stakeholders.
• Work with agile teams to ensure priorities remain aligned with agreed goals. 
• Help identify problems that need to be solved and prioritize the most valuable.
• Accept stories as complete, including validating acceptance criteria and holding teams to account with respect to product quality. 
• Participate in SAFe and agile team ceremonies. 
• Work closely with customers and other stakeholders to ensure continuous feedback. 
• Monitor progress, risks, and dependencies and communicate them to key stakeholders
• Assist with the prioritization of features to align with our overarching product strategy and company goals
• Effectively communicate the product vision and roadmap to the agile development teams.
• Semi regularly (approx. fortnightly) join an out of hours early or late call to sync up with global product colleagues and/or customers. 

• At least 2 years experience working in a product owner role with agile development teams 
• Experience working with Scaled Agile Framework SAFe or similar is a plus
• Experience in data or analytics is a plus or experience in STEM
• A customer-focused mindset
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and manage diverse stakeholders
• Ability to motivate engineering teams to create best-in-class software solutions
• Comfortable working with data and making data-driven decisions.
• Ability to solve complex problems and make difficult decisions.
• Ability to prioritize effectively
• Team spirit and good communication abilities
• Good organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail 

Live to Learn: We believe that learning opens minds and creates opportunities at all life stages. We embrace it, and our technology enables it.

• Is dedicated to solving problems and embraces a challenge
• Seeks ways to improve our ways of working (processes and procedures)
• Pro-actively seeks feedback to learn 
• Listens and asks open questions to come to the best possible solution

Do the Right Thing: Fairness is the bedrock of our business. We’re always open, honest, and ready to take responsibility for our actions.

• Is brave, honest, open, and transparent in communication 
• Takes responsibility for decisions, actions, mistakes/failures
• Is fair and respectful to others, even when in disagreement
• Applies a growth mindset; is accepting of feedback and understands that feedback and difficult conversations are a learning opportunity

Aim Higher: To raise the bar we tackle the difficult problems. We think critically, act collaboratively, and respond creatively.

• Enjoys tackling difficult problems; introduces creative ways of resolving 
• Guided by customers, we aim for the best (not always easiest) solutions 
• Recognizes, drives & celebrates collaboration and strong teamwork (L) 
• Shares with empowers and encourages others (L) 

Success is Better Shared: Great things happen when everyone pulls in the same direction. 

We win together by working together.

• Considers organizational and team goals as the main factors for success 
• Chooses to seek understanding and gain insights to facilitate good collaboration 
• Understands the difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict and is committed to resolving conflict in a professional manner 
• Anticipates and delivers solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations 

Benefits

Being part of the Learnosity/Questionmark team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new techniques, and be able to apply yourself to any challenge, whether you’re just starting out or a veteran of the industry. We are keen to try and maximize the value of your time and will design a schedule around your preferred working style, whether you need to accommodate a school or daycare run, avoid busy commute periods, a gym or sports club schedule, we’ll do our best to accommodate you.

• Annual Leave
• Milestone Leave
• Sick and Carers Leave
• Compassionate Leave
• Generous paid parental leave
• Public Holidays: 9 standard, including Christmas Eve if it falls on a weekday.
• Superannuation
• Career support
• Uprise EAP
• Flexible work practices