Description

Here at Mindera, we are building a world-class team and would love for you to join us! 
As a Product Owner with a strong technical background, you will use your experience with Agile methodologies and your deep understanding of the SDLC to lead a team of developers crafting solutions for a high-profile video gaming client.

Working with our team, you will be involved in defining the product life cycle, describing playable requirements, defining, scheduling and working closely with the development and business teams; and enhancing communication to make sure the outcome is the expected.

We are looking for Technical Product Owners who have experience working with development teams and can be the first point of contact for clients and business stakeholders.

How does that sound?

(National and international expected travelling time varies according to project/client and organisational needs. We estimate it to be between 0%-15%)

Requirements

• Lead the scrum team’s Agile ceremonies (DSU, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, backlog grooming)
• Ability to coordinate schedules across multiple time zones
• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments
• Mentor the scrum team as an Agile advocate, with the goal of helping the team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
• Help resolve conflicts if/as they arise
• Keep the organisation, particularly the project's stakeholders, up to date on the scrum team's progress and deliverables status
• Provide reports on a cadence and at a level of detail specified by Mindera and/or the client
• Be the point of contact for external communication
• Practise open and honest communications with clients
• Leverage your prior technical/coding experience to triage development and QA tickets based on business and customer priorities
• Own and supervise the product backlog, user story writing, and bugs/defects
• Translate the product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work with teams to collaborate, set and communicate release schedules, dates and scope

You have

• At least 5 years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams in the role of Scrum Master and/or Product Owner
• A software engineering background with the ability to comfortably speak in technical jargon
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, GCP)
• Proven ability to analyse epics and user stories from all points of the SDLC, including the architecture, development, testing, and deployment phases (Note: you will not be required to provide architectural or coding solutions, but you must be comfortable participating in discussions about these topics and providing input from a business and client requirements standpoint)
• Scrum Master certification through scrum.org or Scrum Alliance (nice to have)
• Advanced Product Owner certification is preferred
• Experience with Atlassian products is preferred

What you will be doing

• Preparing and running Agile ceremonies
• Engaging with different stakeholders to make sure that the team is developing a world class product
• Ensuring your team’s delivery against the agreed plan
• Helping to define the product vision and break it into smaller and incremental deliverables
• Engaging and interacting with clients
• Working with development teams, software architects and business stakeholders
• Resolving blockers and issues with the team and escalating when further assistance and support is necessary
• Helping to identify market opportunities
• Planning and executing the end-to-end product development lifecycle

Benefits

The things we really care about:

• Health Insurance – because your health comes first;
• Flexible working hours and autonomous ways of working;
• Open holidays – take the time you need for yourself;
• Profit distribution;
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun;
• Training & conferences – create your own training plan;
• Child Care vouchers.

Other good things:

• Choose a Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs;
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT) – for work or Netflix ;)
• Our offices are not just working spaces — we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy. Also, we have fun there! Board games, beer and wine tasting, you name it;
• Don’t worry if you prefer to work remotely. You’re more than welcome to join our offices whenever you want;
• Partnerships with local businesses with special offers and discounts.

Discover more about Mindera – Portugal here.

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At Mindera, we craft software with people we love.

We are 1000+ techies working from anywhere in the world who love to implement the best engineering practices and use the latest tech stack to deliver web and mobile applications for over 100 well-known international clients since we started.

We partner with our clients to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact on their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, and the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work, and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile and collaborative environment.

Before applying, get to know how we hire and take a look at our Handbook!

Our offices are located in: Portugal (Aveiro, Coimbra, Porto) | UK (Leicester) | USA (San Diego, San Francisco) | India (Bengaluru, Chennai) |Romania (Cluj-Napoca) | Brazil (Blumenau)