M-Pesa Africa Product Owner- Payment Remittance at Safaricom Kenya

Responsibilities

• Owning the team backlog - maintaining and prioritizing in line with Product Management direction and earliest delivery of value to our customers 
• Taking content authority for the team backlog, ensures that quality of team’s documented user story and acceptance criteria follows agreed standards. 
• Representing the end user and works with SME’s to understand requirements, supporting the definition of features and co-creating user stories and other required artefacts 
• Working closely with the Product Management team to ensure features are well documented, and that business priority is understood and aligned with team activities
• Actively participating in team and program ceremonies, backlog refinement sessions, iteration planning activities • Leading the systems demo after each iteration • Performing preparation activities for program increment planning, helps drive PI objectives at team level 
• Providing continuous feedback on development, and provides story acceptance in accordance with agreed acceptance criteria and ‘definition of done’ 
• Understanding the core technology platform capability and collaborate with developers in the best way to meet product objectives, acts as the customer for developer questions 
• Working with System Architect to prioritize enablers

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of digital services, smartphone app development and digital design practices 
• Experience of software development lifecycle is essential, especially within agile methodologies (e.g Scrum, SAFe) 
• Experienced in leading agile feature teams to deliver both new and continuous improvements to customers 
• Experienced in the use of modelling tools (JIRA, Confluence). 
• Strong process and analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.
• Strong business and customer focus, and an appreciation of customer led design and user experience techniques 
• Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fast-moving product development process 
• Able to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy. 
• Able to understand and explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders 
• Demonstrable numerical, analytical and verbal skills, in particular well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries would be of benefit. 
• Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent