What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Development Manager position at ASSA ABLOY?
At ASSA ABLOY, we are seeking a skilled Product Owner to join our Global solutions division. This role will play a critical part in continually improving the Product Owner practice within KAM to ensure that we accurately represent Voice of the Customer while supporting the development teams.
The successful candidate will work closely with Product Managers and other key stakeholders to capture Voice of Customer input around functional, non-functional, and user experience requirements. They will translate this feedback into detailed user stories and acceptance criteria in a clear and consistent way that is readily digestible by the R&D team.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Act as Voice of Customer internally, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to discover and analyze customer needs and shape them into hardware and software requirements.
- Work closely with the Product Managers and the R&D team to translate these into appropriately detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non-functional user experience expectations.
- Proactively manage the Product Backlog to ensure that upcoming development priorities are suitably fleshed out with the necessary stories ahead of time so that they can be easily scoped and sized to enable early and accurate scheduling into the roadmap for communication out to the wider business.
- Acquire and maintain a fundamental working knowledge of how our solutions are used in the real world to ensure features, functions and products are delivered with a consistent, user-friendly user experience.
- Engage with stakeholders during development to demonstrate new functionality, gather feedback and expectations regarding existing, new and future developments.
- Participate in and occasionally lead the User Acceptance Testing of new functionality and achieve sign-off from key stakeholders and customers.
- Be the primary liaison between stakeholders and the R&D team, ensuring buy-in from stakeholders on major decisions, managing concerns and proactively communicating deviations from the plan.
We Expect You To Have:
- 5yrs proven experience as a product owner working with Agile teams and methodologies.
- Experience with web apps, mobile apps and internet connected hardware devices.
- Demonstrable background in investigating, analysing and documenting clear requirements, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
- Keen interpersonal skills, adept at developing robust working relationships with team members and customers.
- Active listener, with outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
- Highly organised, self-disciplined with strong planning and time management skills.
- Strong analytical and technical aptitude with creative, practical problem-solving skills.
- Consistent approach with solid attention to detail.
