Praxis is a leading provider of integrated payment solutions for high-risk online industries (FX, gaming, ecommerce). It is a one-stop-shop for integrating a simple, secure, and cost-effective payment option, dramatically increasing credit card acceptance rates by encapsulating 300+ payment providers worldwide. The company headquarter is based in beautiful Cyprus, with technical teams in Ukraine.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Product Owner to join our team!
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Work with internal and external customers to analyze the needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
- Managing and prioritizing the product backlog.
- Collaborate with stakeholders during the envisioning and concept development of a product.
- Be accountable for the created features, delivering in the product model, and communicating the product needs with business partners.
- Create User Stories to effectively communicate business requirements to technology teams.
- Attend Backlog Grooming and Sprint Planning sessions as required to ensure that User Stories are understood and prioritized appropriately.
- Participate in User Acceptance Testing.
- Liaise with relevant technology and operational teams to ensure project delivery.
- Manage expectations of stakeholders and project teams, ensuring any threats that arise to project delivery are escalated.
- Attend status update meetings and manage actions arising through to completion.
- Represent the team in front of stakeholders, clients, or users.
Candidate requirements:
- BSc in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Previous work experience as a Product Owner or similar role ideally in a dynamic & modern environment (a must).
- Team orientation and willingness to roll up sleeves to solve complex, dynamic challenges.
- Worked with agile scrum with the ability to articulate concrete results.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders + ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English.
- A self-driven person with great prioritization skills, that takes initiative and wants to impact.
- Strong relationships building skills; experience managing stakeholders and partners to drive cross-functional programs.
- Ability to provide architectural guidance and direction, strong judgment especially relevant in balancing long term strategic investments with near term business goals.
- A customer-oriented person with experience in working with international customers.
- Experience with modern API-oriented technologies and understanding of API communication mechanics, including the ability to define requirements for features that need to be implemented with underlying awareness to the backend.
- Experience with project management.
What we might consider as an advantage:
- Fluent Russian language speaker.
- Entrepreneurial spirit, with a track record for delivering results in fast-moving and demanding environments.
- Experience in software development or software engineering.
- Experience with Payment Gateway technology.
- Product Owner certification.
- Experience with Payment Service Provider integrations.
This is a full-time position providing competitive pay, flexible schedules and much more.
