Role Summary

The Product Owner (PO) owns and manages the product backlog, refining requirements, and ensuring product development efforts deliver maximum value to the business and end-users. The role bridges the gap between business needs and the development team, contributing to clear prioritization, stakeholder collaboration, and successful product delivery throughout the agile lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Backlog & Requirements Management

• Maintain a transparent, prioritized, and continuously refined product backlog.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to gather requirements, translating them into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure backlog items meet the principles: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.

Prioritization & Planning

• Assist in prioritizing user stories based on business value, customer needs, and technical constraints.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions and sprint planning to ensure alignment with release goals and capacity.

Agile Delivery Support

• Actively engage in agile ceremonies — stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide clarity to the development team on requirements and priorities.
• Monitor sprint progress and help resolve blockers related to requirements or priorities.

Acceptance Criteria & Validation

• Collaborate with the development team to define acceptance criteria for all user stories.
• Participate in sprint reviews to validate completed stories against agreed criteria.

Release & Documentation Support

• Assist in release planning by documenting confirmed features, known issues, and upcoming priorities.
• Ensure release documentation is accurate and available for stakeholders.
• Understand CI/CD principles to support efficient deployment cycles.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team to gather feedback and clarify requirements.
• Support product demos and provide updates on product progress.

Continuous Learning & Improvement

• Proactively develop skills in agile product management practices, tools, and domain knowledge.
• Seek opportunities to optimize processes for better delivery outcomes.

Behavioral Competencies

• Teamwork & Communication: Values collaboration and promotes transparency across teams.
• Curiosity & Passion: Seeks continuous improvement in self and team performance.
• Accountability & Professionalism: Takes ownership of tasks and outcomes.
• Customer Focus: Always considers business and end-user impact in decision-making.

• Maintain a transparent, prioritized, and continuously refined product backlog.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to gather requirements, translating them into actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Ensure backlog items meet the principles: Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable.
• Assist in prioritizing user stories based on business value, customer needs, and technical constraints.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions and sprint planning to ensure alignment with release goals and capacity.
• Actively engage in agile ceremonies — stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide clarity to the development team on requirements and priorities.
• Monitor sprint progress and help resolve blockers related to requirements or priorities.
• Collaborate with the development team to define acceptance criteria for all user stories.
• Participate in sprint reviews to validate completed stories against agreed criteria.
• Assist in release planning by documenting confirmed features, known issues, and upcoming priorities.
• Ensure release documentation is accurate and available for stakeholders.
• Understand CI/CD principles to support efficient deployment cycles.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and the development team to gather feedback and clarify requirements.
• Support product demos and provide updates on product progress.
• Proactively develop skills in agile product management practices, tools, and domain knowledge.
• Seek opportunities to optimize processes for better delivery outcomes.

• Agile product management practices
• Product backlog management
• Requirements gathering and translation
• User story creation
• Acceptance criteria definition
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Agile ceremonies participation
• CI/CD principles understanding
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Curiosity
• Accountability
• Professionalism
• Customer Focus

• BA/BSc/HND