Product Owner

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Product Owner with a proven track record of driving commercial success in product launches to join our team.

Working within the Data visualisation product stream you will take the lead on developing tools to support clients migration and visualisation of data.

As a commercially astute Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in defining the product strategy, driving innovation, and ensuring the successful delivery of features that optimise the customer experience and contribute to business growth of our online B2C product.

**Responsibilities**:
As Product Owner at PlotBox, you will be expected to
- Act as the primary liaison, leveraging your commercial acumen to comprehend and foresee client and market needs. Engage in effective communication with stakeholders across the spectrum, emphasising the commercial aspect, to collaboratively shape a visionary roadmap for key product areas.
- Develop, own and execute the product roadmap aligned with business objectives
- Manage the product backlog, balancing scope, budget and time to prioritise objectives and map out dependencies
- Oversee the development stages, collaborating with the product and development teams to plan, execute and review each sprint,
- Take accountability for each stage of the development process and work closely with the team to refine and improve the development process
- Evaluate product progress, inspect and assessing progress through each iteration and determining if the final product is acceptable
- Articulate problems and processes in a way which is understandable to key stakeholders, both business and technical, and facilitate the analysis and design of effective solutions.
- Ability to articulate the specific commercial outcomes or results of the product to the team.
- Collaborating closely with the sales and marketing teams to understand customer requirements and develop strategies to ensure the success of the product.

**What we are looking for**:

- A specialism working with data migration and visualisation
- At least 1-year experience working as a product owner delivering new, and iterations of existing systems and products, using agile methodologies OR
- At least 2 years’ experience working within agile software development projects (SaaS technology ideally) either as a project manager, business analyst or other relevant role
- Proven track record of stakeholder management experience in a similar role

Desirable Experience - It’s not a deal breaker, but ideally you will have:

- Working with customers in a discovery process
- Providing guidance and support to customers embarking on digital transformation
- Expereince working with business intelligence tools such as Power BI
- Experience building AI tools
- Experience using GIS to visualise data
- Wireframing and prototyping tools and techniques

Company Summary

PlotBox is the innovative cloud-based deathcare management solution that enables cemeteries, crematories and funeral homes to serve their families in the best way possible. We are very clear on our mission; to take away some of the pain for families dealing with death and those who serve them, and provide our customers with more time for what matters.

Headquartered in Northern Ireland, with offices in the United States and Australia, our growing, 100-strong multidisciplinary team of experts provides our partners with the same professional levels of service, support and satisfaction across the globe. We live and breathe our core values - Tenacity, Teamwork and Trust.

We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset. We actively promote from within and our dynamic scale up culture ensures that proactivity and initiative are rewarded with excellent career opportunities, progression and mobility.

How would our team describe life at PlotBox? When asked to describe our company, they use words such as: ‘fun, respect, care, team spirit, family feel, trust, happy, listen, sense of accomplishment, flexibility, development’.

We are proud that, for the third year running, we have received our Great Place to Work® Certification and have placed in the Top Ten UK’s Best Workplaces 2023 Medium Organisations. This follows our top ten ranking on the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech list, as well as being named one of the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces For Women, and one of the 2022 UK's Best Workplaces for Wellbeing.

Our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox; from the relaxed working environment to feeling truly valued in their roles. In addition, our purpose-driven mission and the sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives - means a lot to our team.
Benefits Offered by PlotBox

Our headquarters are ideally placed in the beautiful and scenic countryside location around Ballymena, along