Software Development Product Owner

Software Development Product Owner

Job description

As Product Owner in the Extenda Domestic Clients team you will be part of a talented cross functional team working with business-critical products for well-known customer brands.

The role will require working cross-functionally and collaboratively with our development teams in coordinating activities in complex and challenging client projects from inception to delivery. This includes managing the team back-log, prioritize and coordinate tasks for requirements, development testing and delivery for several products and customers with high quality and speed.

You will have a strong engineering, product centric and agile background. You can take a holistic view of the solution delivery but also dive into technical details and quickly establish credibility with clients, stakeholders and our technical teams.

You will have clear and compelling communication skills with the ability to tune your message with clients, execs, stakeholders or engineers.

You want to join Extenda on the mission to Simplify Shopping, being part of a world-class team and deliver incredible solutions and services to support our clients to take lead in the global retail revolution where technology is the key for success.

You will be reporting to the Professional Services Manager for the Domestic Clients team based in Stockholm

Your workday

At Extenda we work to simplify shopping and deliver great solutions to our customers in the retail industry. We are a leading company in point of sale solutions with over 200 employees in an international working environment.

In the product owner role, you have a variety of interesting duties such as:

• Act as a connector, bringing customers/stakeholders together with the development team into a direct conversation
• Interact with different stakeholders such as customers, team manager, project managers and client executives as well as developers, application consultants, test engineers and solution architects.
• Work with organizing, planning, prioritizing, and reviewing the work done by the development team.
• Continuously focus on improving ways of working. Inspect and adapt.
• Contribute to facilitate a collaborative, open and transparent environment.

As part of your responsibilities you will:

• Build and maintain strong client relationships and act as the trusted advisor.
• Promote Extenda's capabilities to clients and identify sales opportunities.
• Manage and prioritize the Team Backlog in collaboration with peer Product owners, project managers and team manager.
• Ensure that the work items in the backlog meet definition of ready criteria and that the development team understands the items in the backlog to the level needed.
• Ensure that the team backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all
• Participate in risk assessment
• Rejects backlog items that do not meet defined criteria (DoR, DoD)
• Accepts backlog items as completed done in iteration reviews
• Report progress to stakeholders
• Assist in driving our transformation to a more efficient development organization with continuous integration, automated tests, efficient communication, documentation, knowledge sharing and training.
• Overall success of the development team and our deliveries

Extenda's mission is to simplify shopping, and you have most likely already used our Extenda software without even knowing it! Extenda is a leading provider of point of sales solutions technology that delivers innovation and simplicity to retail stores like ICA, Systembolaget or international partners like H&M and Auchan. Extenda enables retail stores to provide a world class shopping experience for their customers.

Our products are used in more than 35 countries by hundreds of thousands of users. Extenda is dominating in the food and fashion retail industry and has during its 35 years of existence reached impressive market share in its Swedish home market. 75% of all retail transactions in Sweden are processed by Extenda solutions.

We are a value based company and our success is guided by clients that can rely on us, professionalism combined with an agile organization focused on learnings and cooperation. Extenda employs around 200 dedicated and innovative staff based in Stockholm, Göteborg, Östersund and leverage a nearshore team in Eastern Europe. www.extenda.se