The Role
Lead product strategy, roadmap development, backlog prioritization, requirements definition, and Agile team direction. Collaborate with engineering, design, business, and stakeholders to deliver product releases, manage blockers, align technical solutions with business goals, and improve products using market research, user feedback, performance data, and UX principles.
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This is a remote position.
About Slash
Slash is a hi-tech startup studio with a mission to build tech products that change the world. Our clients are global. In addition, we build and invest our own startups and commercialize them through joint ventures in ASEAN and Europe. We work on a wide-range of technologies: web, mobile, AI, cloud, microservices & middlewares, security & infrastructure, etc.
Slash has headquarters in Singapore and community-oriented R&D hubs in Phnom Penh, Bali, Yogyakarta, Jakarta and Bandung. We are a team of 50+ entrepreneurs, engineers, and full-stack developers with unique capabilities in web, mobile, and AI.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner for a 3–6 month contract engagement to support product development initiatives. This role is ideal for someone who can quickly integrate into Agile teams, drive product strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes within a defined timeframe.
Role and responsibilities, and how will the role create an impact?
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the market, competitors, and customer needs to inform product strategy and roadmap for different products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and business, to define product requirements and prioritize product features.
- Work closely with engineering teams, as part of the Agile squad, to ensure the product vision is aligned with technical capabilities and constraints.
- Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap, outlining key milestones and timelines for delivery.
- Monitor product performance and user feedback to continuously improve the product and drive customer satisfaction.
- Create and maintain the product backlog, including clear and consistent user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritization
- Provide vision and direction to the agile development team & stakeholders
- Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of pre-prepared tasks to work through
- Identify problems linked to the evolution of the product
- Provide conceptual and technical solutions to deliver product
- Analyze the structure of a business, how it uses technology and what its goals are in order to provide appropriate advice to stakeholders and guide the Agile team
- Identify problems within a business, including through using data modeling techniques
- Formulate ways for businesses to improve, based on previous research
- Consult internal and external stakeholders about the benefits or drawbacks of new technology or strategies
- Oversee the implementation of new technology and systems
- Identify and manage all blockers and document solutions
- Manage and lead the product release and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
- Provide an active role in identifying and mitigating impediments that impact the successful team completion of sprint goals and product release
Requirements
How do you know if you are a good fit?
- 5+ years working experience as a Product Owner
- Degree in Design, Computer Science, Engineering, Product Design or similar relevant field preferred
- Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and feedback
- An interest and understanding of project management techniques
- Understanding of Agile processes and principles is greatly desirable
- Ability to provide project leadership to a team
- Passion for UX design
- Creative thinker with a vision
Benefits
What do we offer?
Projects/clients: Get the stability of a larger group and the excitement of a startup. Work on interesting global projects, challenges and technologies for top brands, fast-paced startups and governments. Experience working with a mature SCRUM team and day-to-day Agile mindset project implementation.
Team and working environment: Join our diverse remote builders' community and hubs oriented in Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Bali, and Phnom Penh. Experience an optimized remote working environment. At Slash, we're proud of our collaborative culture; everyone is ready to lend a helping hand, whether it's your first day on the job or your thousandth. We also embrace a trust-centric culture, flexibility and accountability first, and a work-life integration mindset.
Learning: We focus on the growth of both parties. You will meet communities packed with intelligent peers and attend events with regular speakers, so you don't miss out on the latest tech trends. Slash is a safe space for people to share if you're passionate about something.
Technology: We work on a wide-range of technologies: latest web and mobile technologies, AI, latest Cloud services, microservices & middlewares, security & infrastructure, etc.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience working as a Product Owner
- Degree in Design, Computer Science, Engineering, Product Design, or a related field
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and feedback
- Understanding of project management techniques
- Understanding of Agile processes and principles
- Ability to provide project leadership to a team
- Passion for UX design
- Creative thinking and product vision
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The Company
What We Do
Team of serial entrepreneurs and hackers running a digital product foundry with 2 activities: 1) Slash Foundry: client-facing team that works closely with corporate innovation centers and high-profile startups/SMEs in APAC & beyond to prototype proof of concepts and build their products for scale. 2) Slash Ventures: our internal startup studio. We focus on AI & Blockchain that can be applied to many problems in the B2B and B2G market. Existing ventures include: - Payment Middleware: a unified smart API to access and route to all payment gateways, for enterprise clients. Our abstraction layer can be used for other API categories, such as SMS gateways. Key IP acquired by a global insurance firm. - Boilerplate Assembler: auto-generate website boilerplate code in seconds on the framework of your choice (SailsJS, Laravel, etc). Download and start working on your project within 1 min. Ideal for development teams with rapid prototyping needs. - Game of Tech: joint venture project focused providing MBA schools, conferences and corporate innovation teams the digital collaboration stack to accelerate their innovation initiatives. - ML R&D: Chatbot Liza, News Crawler, Sentiment (stealth mode) - E-Country (stealth mode)
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