Product Owner

The Role

The role will be focused on delivering new features into our Social Casino Games. You will be the Product Owner for our scrum team based in London, reporting directly to the Product Director you will be responsible for defining features for our game/application based on business needs, writing/drawing up specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria and then working with the scrum team to deliver the product features to the defined specifications. You will be responsible for the KIPI success of the features you deliver and expected to iterate and improve where possible.

As part of the Product Team you will need to work closely with other POs and the Product Director to ensure quality features are delivered into our development pipeline and get to our players in a timely manner.

Core Duties

• Responsible for balancing the needs of the business, the customer and the product/brand across the games features
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to analyze the needs and align teams product feature roadmap to strategic goals.
• Owns the feature roadmap for the London scrum team.
• Develop scope and define backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that guide the development team in delivering these items.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
• Solve product related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards committed deliverables.
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end user experience integration and dependencies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a feature.
• Accountable for the created features, delivering in the feature requirements and communicating the product needs with stakeholders.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories and epics to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
• Act as an ambassador for the features you develop with stakeholders and as the primary contact for queries related to these features.
• Work closely with the Product Director and product team in order to create features that fit the game.
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Increase an understanding of Agile practices, Lean Startup, new technologies opportunities and other new trends.
• Identifying possible new features and potential application improvements
• Wireframing new feature requirements and establishing a user flow for each feature this includes Involvement in user experience design.
• Planning of projects and pro-actively monitoring their overall progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective action as appropriate.
• Active management of dependencies, risks, assumptions and issues.
• Plan, schedule and initiate the release of all content across all projects.
• Liaise with the Product Director to assure overall programme quality, deliverables and timescales.
• Maintain documentation relating to but not limited to project schedules, content catalogue, risk, release dates and content updates.
• Managing third party contributions to projects where applicable.

The person:

Creative and strategic thinker, bright, positive, organised, trustworthy, reliable, flexible, great attention to detail, enjoys multitasking, focused on results, confident, excellent verbal and written communication, enjoys a dynamic work environment and both working with a team and independently.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• At least two to three years of experience in a Product related role - Product Owner, Product Management, Production and Project Management.
• Some feature/game design experience and understanding of social game 'meta features' with a good understanding of market trends.
• Mobile web product experience.
• Experience in the management of stakeholders and their expectations.
• Good understanding and experience with Agile methodologies.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.

• Experience with a definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills.
• Organizational and time management skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail.
• Well organized and a self starter
• Active listening.
• Overall understanding of technologies used in the product

Desirable

• Previous experience working in social mobile games
• Knowledge of Social Casino games and mechanics
• Previously worked in project management or as a Scrum master
• Good understand of Jira

About Our London Team

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Originally founded as the Social Gaming department of a larger gaming company over 10 years ago, we entered an exciting new phase with an international firm with similar goals in 2018. Over the years we've entertained millions of players and currently operate the social versions of 3 free to play mobile casino games.

As well as developing and releasing regular game content updates and new features, the team also run inhouse data analytics, customer service and marketing functions. We're developing exciting new games as well and everybody on the team is part of that process.