Product Owner - Cape Town, South Africa - OneNebula (Pty) Ltd

Description

Is it your dream to work at an innovative SaaS company? Do you wish you can be part of a dynamic team constantly challenging the status quo and finding "smarter" ways of doing things? If you answered yes, you are ready to join a business based on longevity and the development and growth of each team member.

1Nebula is a next-generation SaaS Technology Business focused on providing businesses with cloud & technology expense management services and tools to accelerate their cloud journey.

If you are looking for meaningful work, want to push yourself to unlock your infinite potential and accelerate your career, look no further.

With our distributed work model, we can hire people from across South Africa, making our diverse group of team members, called N48Xers, a force to be reckoned with.

Learn more about our people brand by watching our culture videos:


What you will do:

You will execute the vision of our product set together with the SaaS development team and our clients.

The product owner is the lead user of the product with a solid understanding of our clients, users, the cloud, information technology and telecoms market, the competition, and of future trends in the industry.

They direct teams on what features the product will have and support the adoption of the product within our clients and thus need to understand the telecoms and enterprise domain to make sound decisions.

The product owner role requires working closely with key stakeholders throughout Nebula and beyond, they must be able to communicate different messages to different people about the project at any given time.

What will you be responsible for:

Strategic Planning

• Defining the vision of the product and its roadmap.
• Manage multiple streams of requests into Product Backlog
• Market trends analysis
• Go to market strategy
• Budget and ROI management
• Alignment with Marketing and Sales objectives and KPI's

Operational Management

• Translating the roadmap into product backlog with prioritised feature list.
• Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
• Analyse and improve processes related to the use of the product internally and at clients
• Maintain good 3rd party relationships for the product (e.g. Microsoft, Telecoms Service Providers, client integrated systems).
• Manage the rollout of the product to new clients and increase the adoption rate of new features in existing clients.

Product Administration

• Write wellformed User Stories with acceptance criteria to enable development teams.
• Prepare and present the target deliverables in the Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Retrospective, Backlog grooming)
• Maintain effective documentation and training material like user guides on the product.
• Support initial customer engagement by demonstration material, customer onboarding documentation as well as ensuring overall product documentation and training is accurate and up to date.
• Manage UAT's and prioritisation of UAT feedback with stakeholders
• Act as the primary point of contact between internal and external clients and the development team.

More about you, Must-Haves

• You hold a tertiary qualification in a relevant field with preference given to Information Technology or Information Systems degrees.
• Additional certifications such as Certified Product Owner course or Business Analysis diploma will be highly beneficial.
• 23 years' experience in a similar capacity (or business analysis) within software development environments is essential to success in this role.
• Prior exposure to cloud technologies will be highly beneficial.
• You are selforganized, driven and able to manage multiple projects.
• You have a strong orientation towards continuous learning, and enjoy working within entrepreneurial environments
• You are selfreliant and have a good understanding of development workflows

What we offer:

To support you in accelerating your career and ensure you have meaningful work we offer some great perks

• With our flexible working hours and remote work, you make your hours work for you, at 1Nebula our main focus is for you to have balance.
• Take a "mulligan day" to recharge each quarter after meeting all your deliverables
• Grow your skills and learn something new with amazing Microsoft courses and certifications.
• Give back by participating in our Culture and Social Responsibility initiatives.
• Constant fun rewards and recognition for a job well done.
• Free Gap cover and a relaxed dress code
• Hackathons and

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