Product Owner (Automotive)

• Analyze capability gaps within the client organization. Suggest improvements and appropriate solution options.
• Identify and define business needs and goals.
• Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders, project managers, and teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs. Manage requirements communication considering the project’s specifics and stakeholders’ preferences. Moderate meetings and workshops.
• Manage solution scope, detect and track changes. Manage requirements-related conflicts and issues up to resolution.
• Prioritize requirements and manage their allocation. Define and document non-functional requirements, external interfaces, and constraints.
• Evaluate business analysis processes and continuously improve them. Establish and follow requirements lifecycle processes.
• Monitor solution implementation and conduct internal and external solution acceptance. Manage solution acceptance criteria.
• Care about continuous improvement of customer satisfaction.

Required skills:

• Previous prooved experience in Automotive domain, understanding it specific and tools (Polarion, Doors, etc.).
• IT industry experience: 5 years or more, including collaboration with clients abroad.
• Experience in business analysis or product management: 5 years or more, including defining solutions from idea to production.
• Experience in Agile methodologies.
• Proven experience in communication with large audiences and top management.
• Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development life cycle.
• Extensive knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence).
• Very strong English verbal and written communication skills.
• Systems thinking and functional decomposition skills.
• Strong analytical skills for critical assessment of information from numerous sources.
• Modeling skills to represent requirements information in graphical form.
• Setting clear priorities and time-management. Ability to handle multi-tasking.
• High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing stakeholders, conditions, circumstances and feedback. Quick learning.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Self-confidence. Ability to accept criticism for continuous improvement.

Will be a plus:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.