[Hiring] Product Owner @Offsec Services

Role Description

We have a growing distributed team of project & product management, and software web developers located throughout North America and Europe. We are designing and building a new web platform that is the foundation for the day-to-day sales, marketing and student learning activities. It will be a high-traffic, consumer-facing, e-commerce web platform employing all the new modern software development technology, processes, and tools. The Product Owner serves as the customer proxy responsible for working with product management and other stakeholders (customers, sales, customer and student success, other product owners, etc.) to define and set priorities. The Product Owner will also work with the rest of the development team to set product backlog priorities, detail user stories and clarify team’s questions.

Duties and responsibilities

• Identify and validate user pain points, gathering the context and feedback necessary to build solutions into the product.
• Build, edit, and maintain the product specs consisting of user stories and business rules.
• Define user stories (including pre-conditions and acceptance criteria) and provide clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
• Review and prioritize the product backlog as part of the preparation work for iteration or sprint planning, including coordination of dependencies with other product owners.
• During the planning meeting, communicate story detail and priorities and ensure the team agrees on the plan.
• Review the stories and validate that the story meets the business needs and the associated acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its definition of done.
• Collaborate with their team and any other stakeholders in the sprint/iteration demo.
• Use AI tools like Claude, Lovable, etc. to prototype and create designs for handoff to Engineers.
• Use AI tools to create deliverables, not solely rely on Figma/Photoshop.
• Participate in sprint retrospective where the teams gather to improve the processes.
• Collaborate on execution plans with technical leads, product managers, other product owners, and project managers for each sprint, based on in-depth understanding of the product roadmap, technology needs, and development, testing, and deployment lifecycles.
• Work directly with Product Managers and Engineers.
• Participate in all phases of software development (from concept to design to test to deploy to monitor to defect resolution).
• Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrate a strong sense of ownership.
• Communicate effectively, written, verbal, structured and unstructured to keep all the stakeholders in the loop on project status.
• Develop, measure, and monitor key metrics to know how the team is doing, the projects are progressing, and quality of the deliverables and code.
• Encourage sharing of knowledge and lead by example.
• Demonstrate an unwavering commitment to excellence, team culture, and living the OffSec values.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as product manager or product owner in designing and documenting software requirement specifications and coordinating their implementation with the development team.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience working in agile software development teams playing roles such as product owner, business analyst or project manager.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Good knowledge of tools for managing software development (i.e., ticketing and documentation systems such as Jira and Confluence, prototyping tools such as Moqups, Balsamique, Adobe XD or similar).
• Good cross-disciplinary collaboration experience between engineering, product management, project management, technical operations, and internal stakeholders.
• Experience with working with a software team following the agile development lifecycle.
• Experience with e-learning platform highly appreciated.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, influencing skills.
• Solid emotional intelligence and people skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up.
• Results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive self-starter with a passion for delivering high quality software in a high-performance team environment.

Working conditions

• This position is for work from home.
• Team members are located throughout North America and Europe.
• This position requires accessibility to Offensive Security systems and interfaces, and adherence to all security protocols and policies.

Direct reports

• This position has no direct reports.