Senior Product Owner

Role Overview

• Develop and communicate a clear vision for the product, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy and customer needs.
• Work closely with stakeholders to gather and document requirements, ensuring that all user stories are clear, concise, and actionable.
• Organize the traceability of requirements to implementation, delivery, and testing.
• Prioritize and maintain the product backlog, ensuring that it accurately reflects the priorities of the business and provides the development team with a clear understanding of what needs to be built.
• Break down high-level requirements into actionable user stories, including detailed acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.
• Collaborate with the development team to plan and prioritize releases, balancing the need for new features with the need for stability and maintenance.
• Act as the primary point of contact between the development team and stakeholders, facilitating communication and ensuring that everyone is aligned on priorities and expectations.
• Work closely with vendors providing components and systems to Lightspeed.
• Work closely with the QA team to ensure that all user stories meet the required quality standards before they are released to production.
• Gather feedback from customers and stakeholders and incorporate it into the product backlog, ensuring that the product continues to evolve to meet changing needs and market conditions.
• Provide support and training to end-users to ensure successful adoption and optimal utilization of the implemented systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in telecommunication, network engineering, software engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years as a developer, system analyst, product line manager, or similar roles in the telecom industry.
• Experience with element management, network management, and control plane applications.
• Familiarity with virtualization, cloud native architecture principles, multi-tenant applications, streaming, data analytics, and distributed storage systems.
• Highly motivated and able to independently drive projects to completion.
• Creative problem-solving skills and strong analytical skills.
• Strong written and oral English communication skills.
• Familiarity with satellite and wireless telecommunications considered an asset.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Hybrid workplace model with four days a week in the office.
• Occasional international travel is anticipated.