Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of Orchestrator’s product backlog from start to finish, which includes grooming, prioritization, dependency management, and ensuring sprint readiness.

• Guarantee that sprint items have well-defined acceptance criteria to reduce scope ambiguity and minimize rework.

• Frame backlog items as testable hypotheses whenever applicable.

• Lead the ceremonies for sprint planning, refinement, review, and retrospectives.

• Convert strategic direction into clear and well-structured user stories.

• Initiate and organize discovery work for each sprint cycle, encompassing user feedback synthesis, assumption mapping, and delivery retrospectives.

• Provide recommendations based on evidence.

• Clarify requirements during development, assist engineers in overcoming obstacles, and safeguard the integrity of the sprint.

• Define, monitor, and report on delivery health KPIs via Jira, including sprint predictability, defect leakage, and cycle time.

• Offer a delivery-informed perspective in roadmap and product direction discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.

• Over 3 years of experience in product ownership or a closely related role within a technology company.

• Ideally served as the primary or sole Product Owner for a product.

• Profound understanding of the software development lifecycle, which includes development, staging, production, QA evaluation, and release.

• Capability to independently manage a complete product backlog, comprising stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and prioritization.

• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Proficient in Jira for managing projects, backlogs, and sprints.

• Experience in an early-stage, high-growth, fast-paced startup setting.

• Familiarity with MS Office/Excel, Google Suite, and Notion.

• Ability to drive projects to completion with accountability while considering customer needs and taking calculated risks.

• Capability to start with customer needs and work backwards, effectively managing tasks, resources, and priorities.

• Proactive, clear, concise, and respectful communication; able to challenge decisions and commit once they are made; actively seeks, provides, and acts on feedback.

• Portuguese — Fluent.

• English — Advanced.

• Willingness to travel as necessary to support events and meet the team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Global remote work environment.

• Opportunity to work with a rapidly growing company supported by a $12M Series A.

• Collaborate with a global team across the US and LATAM.

• Ability to travel as needed to support events and meet the team.