Company Description

Are you looking for an opportunity to jump-start your career in a thriving tech industry? Join us at Blend to grow our business and execute our mission to help organizations leverage data and technology to make better decisions. With over 10 years of experience in the field of big data, top US customers such as Mastercard, Tripadvisor, and Roku choose us to develop innovative products. 

What is this position about? 

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog, working closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, and ensuring that the development team delivers value to the client. 

Job Description

• Defining and prioritizing the product backlog based on input from stakeholders.
• Working closely with the development team to ensure that the product backlog items are delivered on time and meet the acceptance criteria.
• Responsible for priorization, sprint goals and corresponding user stories, while ensuring deployment memos are consistent with business priorities from the Business Owner.
• Drafting documents and communicating requirements to platform architects and developers.
• Collaborating across the organization to coordinate cross domain work that requires loyalty platform work.
• Creating a backlog of development ready features/requirements/intakes for the loyalty platform. 
• Mantaining and identifying any additional performance improvement intakes required.
• Presenting at program review meetings.
• Mapping out discovery, design, development and launch schedules.
• Monitoring and reporting on the progress of the product development, and make adjustments to the roadmap as necessary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Business) or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in the IT field. 
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Experience with project management tools, such as Jira or Trello.
• Certification in Agile (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner) is a plus.

What about languages? 

Excellent written and verbal English for clear and effective communication is a must! 

How much experience must I have? 

We're looking for someone with 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner.

Additional Information

Our perks and benefits: 

🍔Every day lunches! (headquarters) 

• Vegetarian, vegan, gluten and sugar free options. 

• Gourmet meals every Friday with our on-site chef! 

⚖️ Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance. 

👨🏽‍💻 All the equipment you need to harness your talent (Macbook and accessories). 

☕Snacks and beverages available everyday (headquarters). 

🎮After office events, football, tennis and game nights (headquarters). 

• Everyone is welcome to join our football league every Wednesday’s and Friday’s. 

• Challenge your teammates to a pool game and win the office’s trophy! 

• Tennis courts available for friendly matches. 

• You are not a sports person? Don’t worry, we also have chess championships, game and music nights for you to join! 

📚 Learning opportunities: 

• AWS Certifications (we are AWS Partners). 

• Study plans, courses and other certifications. 

• English Lessons.