Product Owner

Welcome to Byborg! As a leader in IT and streaming solutions, we deliver high-quality services for premium online experiences.

Headquartered in Luxembourg and operating globally, our company is proud of its diversity, with over 40 different nationalities working side by side. Since its launch, our flagship product has led the market, continually pushing the boundaries of digital innovation and today our platforms serve millions of users daily.

Working with a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and constantly pushing the envelope in AI experimentation, we ensure robust and reliable performance through our powerful network of data centers. Furthermore, our advanced design and testing methods, including Behavior-Driven Development, set us apart.

We are proud of our dynamic portfolio, featuring over 16 leading and fast-growing brands. These include our streaming platforms (LiveJasmin.com, Cherry.TV, IsLive.com, Oranum.com), our marketing and advertising services (AdSupply, AWEmpire, TwinRed), and our entertainment and lifestyle brands (LoyalFans.com, The Million Roses, Kinkly.com).

Are you looking for new challenges in an international, collaborative environment? The Byborg squad is seeking passionate individuals ready to make an impact. Join us in our inclusive workplace where you will be appreciated, and you can grow and achieve your potential. Help us shape the future!

The Product Owner owns, maintains, and prioritizes the product backlog aligned with the companies' global priorities to ensure the commercial strategy of a given product, ensuring to have proper specifications, validating the priorities of the development and validating the development on the production environment. Shares the product vision and works closely with the Product Management Office (PMO) to ensure the managed team/s delivers value to the business in quality.

Ownership/Accountability/Responsibility

• Owner of the Product Backlog and Product Roadmap
• Accountable for the management and prioritization of the backlog, keeping it clean and properly prioritizing based on global priorities, impact, resources, business strategy and dependencies
• Responsible of the global product strategy by developing business roadmap, defining the goals and vision ensuring the product's growth and success
• Representing both the stakeholders and the business within the dedicated team, managing communication and expectations
• Defining key features of the product documented & the criteria of its success
• Ensuring the product reaches the set milestones/goals with timely deliveries of expected product increments
• Constantly following our competitors and the industry to find feature gaps and propose solutions
• Actively participating in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, and project team’s release planning sessions
• Providing validated requirements as well as all the required information to make proper development (including designs, test-cases, acceptance criteria etc.)
• Collaborating actively with UX, Analytics, SEO and BigData to reach a customer-centric approach and propose strategic business decisions based on data analysis and interpretation
• Collaborating actively with the IT Project Manager (PM) to facilitate work across teams to deliver initiatives on time
• Ensuring effective SDLC execution working closely with PMs, EMs, LDs, BAs, UI/UX, as well as all other business departments (i.e. finance, legal, risk, anti-fraud, compliance, etc.)
• Creating and updating release plans and defining release dates and content alongside the PM
  
  

Backlog management and prioritization

• Keeping a clean, well structured and groomed backlog to ensure it's ready for prioritization
• Ensuring development ticket statuses are up-to-date and audit ticks are given in due time
• Right prioritization based on global priorities and impact and resources
• Keeping the previously defined ETA(s) and effectively updating where needed
• Support teams in regards of all specifications and priority management
• Effective scope change handling
  
  

Product Roadmap

• Maintaining clear and keep up-to-date roadmap on Jira
• Transmitting the product vision on initiative level with whys to align the team/s towards it
• Communicating effectively with team/s members to achieve project goals
• Ensuring timely and accurate pre-release/release communication and release info update on intranet
• Handling external requests effectively
  
  

Product & Process knowledge

• Applying SDLC process efficiently
• Having general knowledge on all portfolio products to identify dependencies across products
• Working closely with the team/s throughout the preparation/development process
• Validating the development/product increment on the production environment
  
  

Data driven approach

• Making strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation with close collaboration with UX, Analytics, SEO and Bigdata to reach the customer-centric approach
• Requesting specific KPI dashboards/reports, analyzing insights and nurturing ideas/solutions to existing customer problems
• Ensuring the necessary data tracking events implemented in order to make data/metric driven product decisions/proposals
  
  

Industry knowledge

• Knowing and monitoring competitors and market
• Proposing new product development ideas from market
• Testing competitor sites actively to find the feature gap and proposes solutions
  
  

Product health

• Proactively ensuring product health (i.e. bugs) by subscribing to different alerting systems and testing, escalating in case of not available resources to restore the health
• Ensuring the allocation of necessary amount of bugs to each sprint/cycle without endangering the global priorities
• Any other tasks assigned in line with the employee's competencies defined by the line manager or the management of the company
  
  

Support PMO

• Processes' setup/maintenance/improvement proposals
• Part of the companies' HoP/PO community and animates it
  
  

Requirements

• Previous experience in a similar role in product management
• Knowledge of software development and web technologies
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles
• Strong presentation and good negotiation skills
• Team spirit and outstanding verbal and written communication abilities
• In-depth understanding of industry market conditions and trends
• Passion for improving consumer experiences using technology
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good organizational skills
  
  

What We Offer

• An exceptional compensation package along with relocation support to help you move to the Grand Duchy
• Your health is our wealth: private health insurance and free gym membership
• On top of the minimum 26 vacation days, we also provide additional days the longer you work for us
• Forgot your morning grub at home? We provide daily breakfast for our employees, energizing them for the day ahead and helping them connect with each other
• The opportunity to see your work directly contribute to the success of the company
• When you grow, we grow: You have the chance to attend events, meetups, and other perks for your professional growth
• You’re joining the #ByborgSquad and you are going to look the part! We give out company-branded merchandise to every new joiner
• And of course, a fun, professional, and collaborative work culture
  
  

Byborg Enterprises is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment based on their skills, abilities and experience. We thrive to attract and hire a strong, talented and diverse workforce, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious or political beliefs, age, nationality, physical, mental or developmental disability, gender, sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER: This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at management's discretion.

During the recruitment process candidates will be requested to provide with a recent criminal record extract for background screening purpose.

NOTE: Byborg Enterprises does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. We consider any resume (CV) or biography received from an agency without prior approval from our Legal and Recruiting Department to be unsolicited, and such submissions will not be recognized for purposes of “ownership” of the candidate.