Product Owner

**Who we are**:
Irdeto is the world leader in digital platform cybersecurity, empowering businesses to innovate for a secure, connected future. Building on over 50 years of expertise in security, Irdeto’s services and solutions protect revenue, enable growth and fight cybercrime in video entertainment, video games, and connected industries including transport, health and infrastructure. Irdeto is the security partner dedicated to empowering a secure world where people can connect with confidence.

With teams and offices around the world, Irdeto’s greatest asset is its people - our diversity is celebrated through an inclusive workplace, where everyone has an equal opportunity to drive innovation and contribute to Irdeto’s success.

**The role : Product Owner**

In this role you will manage user stories and ensure that the product backlog for the cross-functional Scrum teams is properly allocated, thereby supporting the successful outcomes for product definition, design, development, release, and support.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Collaborating closely with the members of the Scrum team on an ongoing basis, providing guidance and direction to the team as needed.
- Developing a thorough understanding of the customer’s needs, and representing the customer’s interests within the Scrum team.
- Working with segment managers:

- to understand the business requirements, goals and requirements.
- to ensure that business requirements are translated to (technical) Epics, Themes, and User Stories.
- Ensuring that user stories and defects in the product backlog are clear, complete, and prioritized, and actively managing/grooming the backlog on an ongoing basis.
- Defining and explaining the business value, business acceptance criteria and acceptable limitations for user stories.
- Able to answer and address any questions of the Scrum team. Setting priorities for the development team in line with business priorities incl. new functionalities, field issues, internal work (e.g. documentation, software refactoring)
- Setting the expectation for delivery of new functionalities and participating in the creation of product release plans.
- Approving and accepting sprint goals and holding the Scrum team accountable for meeting their goals and demonstrating it to the customer.
- Providing day-to-day tactical objectives, and providing quick, JIT decisions to system-level questions and defect triage.

**Who we are looking for**:

- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar level of education.
- The following experience is required (can overlap):

- 3-4 years of experience as a business analyst, product owner, or a similar role in which functional requirements are translated to technical user stories.
- 2-3 years of experience in agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures.
- 2-3 years experience in the software development lifecycle.
- 4-6 years of development or testing experience
- Experience in the Digital TV and OTT/IP domain is a must.
- Ability to quickly understand technical issues.
- Excellent all-round communicator.
- Excellent verbal and written English skills.
- Advanced negotiation skills.
- Proven leadership ability.
- Self-motivated and capable of managing multiple priorities and tasks as delegated.
- Team-player with the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

**What you can expect from us**:
Our people and culture are the heart of our business, and our values of Trust, Accountability, Agility and Innovation inform what we do, and how we work. We believe in investing in our talented employees and promote collaboration, creativity and innovation, health and well-being across our global workforce.

In addition to competitive remuneration and extensive benefits we offer:

- An international and multicultural environment where diversity and inclusivity are celebrated and embraced
- Professional educational opportunities and training program
- Innovation sabbatical
- Volunteer Day
- State of the art office space
- On the job coaching and mentoring
- Flexible work arrangements - via our Work Hard Anywhere policy.
- Some of us run city marathons and even go on snowboarding trips together
- Casual Friday? Casual every day
- US$ 500 net for your home office setup after you passed your trial period
- And many additional perks customized to global locations (canteen, fresh fruit, amazing coffee, parking, on-site gym, yoga room to name a few)

**Welcome to Irdeto**

Irdeto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.