Principal Product Owner

at  OutSystems

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!
Product Owners work embedded in Product Teams providing business guidance while participating in strategic decisions with Product Management. Product Owners use domain knowledge to align value (with Product Management), experience (with UX) and feasibility (with Arch/Eng) of Product initiatives.
Product Owners break down the Initiative into Team backlogs, and plan an incremental delivery of value with constant feedback and product demos, while managing dependencies and risks, releasing and validating outcomes. They aim towards Doing the Right Thing, rather than just “Get Things Done” throughout the product delivery life cycle, helping OutSystems’ mission of making software development available to everyone.
The Product Owner is responsible for owning the backlog for a particular team and working with the team as they develop stories, use cases and functional specifications. Once the team’s backlog is defined and stories are ready, they will continue to assist the release process and work with Product Managers, UXers and Engineering Managers to deliver high-quality software while ensuring the team is building the right product.
As a Manager, Product Ownership, you’re expected to understand the dynamics of a SaaS & On-Prem solution and the value of incremental delivery within a CI/CD pipeline. The Manager, Product Ownership will use that knowledge to facilitate the growth of our product.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drive the connection between business outcomes and technology
• Act as a subject matter expert in the area of focus for the scrum team for client project questions and issues.
• Empower your team to better understand their impact on business
• Communicate with the scrum team what are the upcoming value milestones
• Continuously build and prioritize your team’s backlog, ensuring predictability, boosting performance and a steady velocity of delivery
• Drive backlog refinement with clear DoR, including acceptance criteria and timelines
• Responsible for the quality and accuracy of user stories, use cases and functional specifications.
• Customer and stakeholder engagement on the ongoing initiatives and assets, translating needs into functional requirements
• Deal with dependency management, ensuring multiple teams are working together to maximize their impact
• Be on top of things by driving risk identification and mitigation plans definition and follow-up
• Understand and communicate the impact of changes to the requirements.
• Accountable for formally accepting the work developed by your scrum team, including performing user acceptance tests
• Demo the final version of the Product, updating customers and stakeholders on the next capabilities that we will launch
• Understand how to measure success and track business outcomes and how to adjust course accordingly

Required Skills:

• 8+ years managing technology products and successfully defining and launching products
• 5+ years of demonstrable knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Product Lifecycle Management
• Tech savvy in one or more of these technologies: C#, TypeScript, React, CSS, Containers.
• Ability to lead a team and execute
• Knowledge of leading and executing in an agile methodology using Scrum
• Training in analytical processes such as user story creation, use case definitions or interview techniques
• Ability to capture user requirements for an application to drive user story creation
• Knowledge and experience in the use of JIRA/Rally/Aha
• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of designing software solutions
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and strong team player
• Experience in a SaaS environment
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good analytical and strong problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet or beat assigned targets and deadlines consistently
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Growth mindset with an ability to quickly shift or change plans
• Ability to demonstrate product in front of large groups
• Bachelor’s degree in business or technology-related field

Also valued:

• Previous experience working with SAFe framework
• Knowledge about and experience working with OutSystems
• Experience with Cloud or Mobile technologies
• Experience with AI and Data Analytics

The Longer Story:
One of the fastest-growing B2B software companies in the world, OutSystems is on a mission to enable every organization to innovate through software. We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and
preferred by professional developers
around the world.
OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 525,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, 400 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 87 countries and across 22 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.
Working at OutSystems
We do not have many rules, but we do have high standards and a culture of global collaboration. Our commitment to our culture is highlighted in
The Small Book of the Few Big Rules
, written by our Founder and CEO, Paulo Rosado. This commitment to culture landed us in the Forbes top cloud computing employers four years in a row.

We grow, change, and innovate, and give our teams the space to be proactive and creative.

• We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is obvious, and we also encourage lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering new skills.
• Global colleagues who are as smart, hardworking, and driven as you.
• Our DNA is disrupting the status quo. It is why our company exists.
• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and often uncovers a better, more agile way.

What do we have to offer you?

• A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative.
• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills.
• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global.
• A company culture that is based on transparency, teamwork and excellence (as promised in our

Small Book of the Few Big Rules

and delivered every day.)

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.
• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!
OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.
Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to “Ask Why”, you give our customers the power to innovate through software

• Drive the connection between business outcomes and technology
• Act as a subject matter expert in the area of focus for the scrum team for client project questions and issues.
• Empower your team to better understand their impact on business
• Communicate with the scrum team what are the upcoming value milestones
• Continuously build and prioritize your team’s backlog, ensuring predictability, boosting performance and a steady velocity of delivery
• Drive backlog refinement with clear DoR, including acceptance criteria and timelines
• Responsible for the quality and accuracy of user stories, use cases and functional specifications.
• Customer and stakeholder engagement on the ongoing initiatives and assets, translating needs into functional requirements
• Deal with dependency management, ensuring multiple teams are working together to maximize their impact
• Be on top of things by driving risk identification and mitigation plans definition and follow-up
• Understand and communicate the impact of changes to the requirements.
• Accountable for formally accepting the work developed by your scrum team, including performing user acceptance tests
• Demo the final version of the Product, updating customers and stakeholders on the next capabilities that we will launch
• Understand how to measure success and track business outcomes and how to adjust course accordingl