Principal Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Costa Rica.

📋 Description

• Serve as the intermediary between the client's business organization and software delivery teams.

• Offer subject matter expertise to guide the creation and implementation of business solutions.

• Lead and facilitate sessions for gathering requirements, workshops, and interviews with stakeholders to accurately capture business needs, translating those requirements into functional design specifications, user stories, use cases, and business process flows, ensuring alignment with project objectives.

• Manage and prioritize requirements in collaboration with product management and other cross-functional teams.

• Modify requirements based on timelines, complexity, and other business factors.

• Collaborate with Business and Technical teams to refine and prioritize tasks, ensuring effective communication and delivery of high-quality solutions.

• Define and document business dependencies and comprehend system intricacies for all integrated platforms.

• Analyze intricate business processes, identify automation opportunities, and reengineer processes to enhance automation potential.

• Conduct data mapping and define all aspects of integration between platforms.

• Work alongside project managers to plan and prioritize tasks, resources, and timelines for successful project delivery, while identifying, documenting, tracking, and communicating risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions.

• Document assigned feature sets and collaborate with Quality Assurance to validate system functionality, ensuring developed features adhere to specifications.

• Lead User Acceptance Testing sessions and ensure a smooth operations handoff for launched features.

• Stay informed about industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies pertinent to the business analysis field.

• Demonstrate a high level of independence and initiative, while being adaptable to shifting daily workloads based on competing business priorities, allowing for the completion of assignments with minimal supervision.

• Participate in status meetings and other leadership activities for the project.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 10+ years of experience as an IT Business Analyst or in a similar relevant role.

• Familiarity with web and mobile platforms and experience working with APIs.

• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology.

• Proficient in creating mockups, wireframes, and prototypes.

• Experience in leading and facilitating requirement meetings during business requirement gathering sessions or design discussions.

• Knowledge of basic documentation software, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical Insurance benefits as per company policy.

• Life Insurance as per company policy.

• 12 days of paid vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays in accordance with local law.

• Paternity and maternity leave as per local law.

• Marriage, bereavement, and graduation leaves based on company policy.

• Sick leave and paid holidays in compliance with local law.

• Christmas bonus according to local law.

• Saving Fund “Asociacion Solidarista.”

• Beach house managed by the Asociacion Solidarista.

• Discounts at local shops.

• Direct deposit of payroll.

• Paid professional certifications.