Product Owner

We are seeking a Senior Product Owner to join our expanding product team at our Dublin office. This role will take ownership of the product roadmap for one of our crucial data analytics services utilised by financial institutions across Europe. It's an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to contribute to an industry-leading product.

• Roadmap Development: Define, develop, and own the product roadmap for a key data analytics solution.
  
• Strategic Direction: Provide clear direction and strategy for product development activities.
  
• Collaboration: Work closely with Data Science and GRC and HRIS Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure that governance, risk compliance and human capital management techniques and risk mitigation are integral to the proposition.
  
• Requirement Analysis: Develop a deep understanding of business objectives and customer/end-user requirements, translating them into actionable backlogs for delivery teams.
  
• Market Analysis: Assess market competition by evaluating the company's current and planned products against alternative offerings.
  
• Customer Engagement: Gather market data by engaging with customers and evaluating feedback to inform product enhancements.
  
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with operations and finance to determine future pricing structures for new markets and product enhancements.
  
• Alignment: Ensure consistency, strength, and clarity in the product value proposition by collaborating with Product Marketing, Marketing, and Sales functions.
  
• Vendor Management: Manage external vendor and partner relationships as required.
  
• Delivery Planning: Establish delivery schedules with engineering and operations teams to ensure timely product releases.
  

• Leadership: 8 years hands-on experience in a lead product development or product management role.
  
• Education: Third level degree in a technical discipline (computer science, engineering, data analytics).
  
• Resilience: Highly resilient personality with extensive stakeholder and customer management experience.
  
• Experience: Previous experience as a SaaS or analyst, product owner, or product manager, preferably on highly scalable data management, data analytics, or data integration services and platforms.
  
• Expertise: Deep understanding of Business Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts is a distinct advantage.
  
• Cloud Computing: Experience in defining and designing new product concepts for delivery in cloud computing environments (Azure/AWS) and leveraging the core infrastructure, platform, and service capabilities of cloud environments to drive rapid implementation.
  
• Release Management: Experience of driving release planning and rapid release cycles.
  
• Agile Practices: Experience working in an agile environment.
  
• Analytical Skills: Attention to detail with an analytical, quantitative mindset.
  
• Adaptability: Flexibility to operate successfully in a dynamic environment.
  
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage and influence C-level stakeholders.
  
• Communication: Strong communication and presentation skills.
  

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• Intellectual Curiosity: A natural intellectual curiosity to discover and articulate the true "why".
  
• Collaboration: Collaboration is critical to success.
  
• Effective Communication Skills: Proficiently convey the product vision, priorities, and requirements to both the development team and stakeholders.
  
• Forward-Thinking: Possess a clear vision for the product's trajectory, aligning it closely with overarching business objectives.
  
• Customer-Centric Approach: Understanding and empathising with customer needs and pain points.
  
• Strong Prioritization Abilities: Should be adept at prioritising features and tasks based on factors like business value, user feedback, and market demand.
  
• Decisiveness: Be able to make prompt decisions, particularly in situations involving conflicting priorities or uncertainty.
  
• Flexibility: Be open to adapting the product roadmap in response to changing market dynamics, feedback from users, and evolving business requirements.
  
• Collaborative Nature: Working closely with the development team, stakeholders, and other departments fosters alignment and transparency throughout the product lifecycle.
  
• Analytical Aptitude: The ability to analyse data, metrics, and user feedback is crucial for making well-informed decisions and continuously enhancing the product.
  
• Technical Proficiency: Have understanding of the technology stack to facilitate effective communication with the development team and informed decision-making.
  
• Resilience: Demonstrate resilience in the face of obstacles, setbacks, and shifting priorities, maintaining focus on the long-term success of the product.
  
• Other Qualities:
  • Independent, self-starter who takes ownership over projects and drives them to completion.
  • Balanced thinker between analysis, technical, and conversational.
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  
  
• Skills:
  • Excellent written communication skills that build technical reader credibility and exude prospect/customer empathy, including different tones-of-voice and styles, from blogs to whitepapers
  • Expertise connecting business value back to technical capabilities
  • Experience in GRC and HRIS SaaS products (Ideal)
  • Experience in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe Methodologies
  • Detail-oriented with strong intellectual curiosity
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage stakeholders effectively
  
  

We are our customers' trusted partner in the exciting world of safeguarding data, strengthening cybersecurity, and strategic consulting. We lead the way in ensuring data integrity, securing information, and navigating regulatory compliance with confidence.

With a blend of technical expertise and clever thinking, we redefine GRC and IT strategies, empowering organisations to shine. From wielding cyber-superpowers to mastering security frameworks like ISO 27001:2013 and NIST, we're certified wizards ready to chart a course to success, strengthen defenses, and turn challenges into opportunities to excel.

So whether our customers are battling cyber dragons or navigating the tumultuous seas of change, Grouper is their trusted ally on the journey to greatness.

Product Managers plays a pivotal role in delivering our methodologies like SAFe,Scrum and Kanban. If you're ready to embark on a journey of creativity and impact, apply now and be part of our dynamic team