About the job

At Apipana, we create innovative solutions with high-quality code, covering the entire Product Development Life Cycle. We work closely with our main client, a leading provider of iGaming solutions in an international environment.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for creative and enthusiastic individuals to join our team at our Seville office. If you're passionate about technology and product challenges and want to stay at the cutting edge, join us and become one of our first 50 team members!

Role Overview

We are seeking a product owner to work exclusively on a dedicated web product. You will be part of a cross-functional product development team and be in direct contact with the business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage Product Backlog: Formulating the list of backlog items and prioritizing them as per the critical business objectives.
• Define Sprint Objectives: The product owner defines the suggested sprint objective which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal.
• Review and approve the work done by the development team: The product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification.
• Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: The Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders. They need to be clear and concise communicators to ensure there is approval of the stakeholders for all major decisions and strategies.
• Backlog Refinement: Ability to priorities, enhance, and finalize the items with the team before the sprint planning.
• Create and Maintain Change Requests Associated with the Product: Predominantly an Operational task. The Product Owner will gather and prioritize operational changes and include them within the Product Backlog for future sprint iteration.
• Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: The Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve. Having strongly defined acceptance criteria is vital to ensure that the product performs to the expected standard. Acceptance criteria should always be confirmed with stakeholders and will be used as a baseline for QA to test against.
• Gather Functional and non Functional Requirements: The Product Owner will ensure that all requirements are gathered and that they meet the Product Managers expectations.
• Maintain Requirements: Requirements may be adjusted during the project lifecycle, this is to be expected in a dynamic environment such as ours.
• If a requirement is adjusted then this must be reflected at the appropriate level (Epic, Story).
• Verify Requirements: Once the requirements, functional and non functional, have been gathered from the stakeholder(s) the Product Owner will confirm and agree that the requirements are fit for purpose and use.

Requirements

• At least 2 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst).
• Technical understanding is required in the following areas:
• Requirements lifecycle
• Product backlog management
• Product development architecture
• Software development
• Scrum and Agile development methodologies
• User experience principles
• Use of verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to create and convey product goals. Reporting insights which allow them to maximize product value and address issues during the early stages of development.
• Ability to analyze various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible. Identify, collect and analyze information, use reason to solve complex problems and make decisions based on logical conclusions.
• A professional level of English is required.

Benefits of working at Apipana:

• 30 working days of vacation
• Flexible schedule
• Hybrid system: 3 days in the office and 2 from home
• Comprehensive health insurance with DKV
• Free English classes during your working hours
• Meal vouchers
• Up to €25 per month discount on any sports activity
• Training budget
• Refer a friend to join the team and earn up to €3,000 for each successful referral

Don’t miss the chance to join us and be part of our future!