Product Owner

Sustainability that means business

Who we are:

Sustainability software specialist, AMCS, is headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Europe, the USA, and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly-skilled employees across 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technology solutions to facilitate a carbon neutral future.

What we do:

Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and boost sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers across 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, ensuring we deliver practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience across the globe.

Our people

AMCS offers team members more than just a job, but an opportunity to map out a career with a company that is growing, evolving and setting out new ways of working that are having a positive impact on the world around us. AMCS was established in Ireland and holds onto those local roots and ‘start-up’ mentality with a culture of connection. Connection to our work, our customers, our colleagues and our community that creates a working environment that fosters openness, collaboration and creativity.

About the Role:

We currently have a requirement for an experienced Product Owner to join our global team. This can be a remote working role anywhere in Ireland with visits to our HQ in Limerick

The Product Owner will own, create and maintain the product backlog, including prioritizing and sequencing according to business value. Leveraging the expertise of others and cross-checking customer and market information extensively you will outline the requirements and goals at the beginning of every Feature release and sprint.

Key Responsibilities

·Develop clear and descriptive user stories with acceptance criteria to support the development team

·Participate in the regular scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews.

·Initiate and translate product road map into manageable product backlog for Scrum teams

·Constructively challenge and engage with the development team to maintain continuous velocity, ensure quality and maintain motivation.

·Ability to engage and connect all stakeholders (customers, partners, market specialists) in different locations, to create and a fully formed product scope.

·Distil inputs from a variety of user representatives / stakeholders to create a complete picture of the market problems to be solved

·Challenge stakeholders to ensure that an understanding is achieved that is coherent, complete, credible and sufficiently concrete to facilitate the development of software, and that the business processes underlying the scenarios are identified and described.

·Work with the Product Manager to plan product release to ensure go to market readiness working with product marketing, pre-sales, sales, implementation, support

Collaborate with UX design team in the creation of exceptional user experiences

·Expert knowledge of the existing capabilities of the Product to plan for its future evolution

·Own the acceptance of delivered software, meeting capabilities as envisioned.

· Communicate and evangelise your product

About You

·5+ years’ experience as a Product Owner / Business Analyst or in a related discipline

 Excellent written and oral communication

·Excellent interpersonal, organisational and collaboration skills

·Self motivated, curious and customer focused

·Ability to break down complexity and clearly articulate requirements

·Understanding of how technology can be leveraged for business benefit including ability to assess the technical feasibility / relative cost of solution options.

·Experience of working in an Agile environment and working knowledge of Agile methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum, SAFe an advantage

Knowledge of UX methodologies including user journey and persona development

Experience working with website content management systems ideally including Umbraco