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The Product Owner is a member of an Agile Team that represents the voice of the customer and is responsible for working with the Product Manager and other stakeholders – including other Product Owners and the team – to define, prioritize and manage the product backlog so that the solution effectively addresses customer and business needs while maintaining technical integrity. Our business unit has a product vision, strategy and a 3-year roadmap. The success of the roadmap, strategy is based on multiple product initiatives being successful. This role is going to play a key role in ensuring this success. The Product Owner is an important role at Wolters Kluwer and is responsible for responsibility and decision-making in the development of products. He or she will understand the customers and potential customers, as well as the wider industry.

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Owning 1-3-month roadmap across Kluwer Law International’s product portfolio including discovery, design and delivery by working with right team members and stakeholders

• Participate in Agile/ SAFE cadence to progress towards business /PI objectives laid out as per product vision and roadmap

  • Participate in mission and PI briefings as part of SAFE agile planning and pick up requirements for the team

  • Participate in PI planning, sprint planning, team ceremonies

  • Lead PI/Sprint demos of new product development towards internal stakeholders

  • Lead Week start meetings to get initiatives ready for delivery and PIs

  • Act as the main point of contact for stakeholders, addressing queries and providing updates on product development progress

• Backlog prioritization & management

  • Communicate the product vision, roadmap, and PI goals to stakeholders and team members

  • Review and improve the process of backlog management across product portfolio

  • Gather and prioritize product requirements based on customer, stakeholder feedback, data and market research

  • Write user stories and bring them to be ready for PI planning

  • Make user stories ready for sprint planning

  • Prioritize team backlog

  • Continuously evaluate product performance and implement improvements

• Manage product roadmap schedules and product delivery independently

  • Provide insights and documentation of project requirements and scopes

  • Oversee and report on roadmap progress and performance metrics

  • Identify, mitigate, and escalate risks as needed.

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery

• Ensuring user value

  • Do business acceptance on user story level

  • Help with user validation of features

  • Help with data driven decisions: support with data analytics on features and customers related to usage of our product and its features to inform the future product roadmap

• Keeping the lights on: Support with issues and bugs management as part of the backlog management across our product portfolio

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science, or a related field or equivalent

• Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner, Agile Certified Product Manager) are a plus

• Continuous learning in product management methodologies and industry trends

• At least 2-5 years of experience as Agile product owner

• A proven track record of successful product ownership of software or wed product portfolio including managing large, complex initiatives to transform ways of working and tech platform in a high-tech development environment with multi-functional teams following SAFe/Scrum methodologies

• Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with development teams

• Demonstrated success in defining and delivering high-quality products that meet customer needs

• Experience in market research, user testing, and gathering customer feedback

Beneficial:

• Knowledge in the development of research applications

• Knowledge in the domain of legal tech

• Knowledge of SOLR search engine and search use cases

• Very good team player and interaction skills

• You can work independently and are naturally curious

• Good with team communication applications (Slack, MS Teams, etc.)

• Comfortable with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)