Talentsafari
Product Owner
Nairobi. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Product Owner will own the product backlog for assigned products and act as the voice of the user and business within development teams. You will translate business strategy into a product roadmap and measure the outcomes of shipped products.
What you will do
- Own, prioritise, and continuously refine the product backlog
- Translate business strategy into a product roadmap
- Write user stories with clear acceptance criteria
- Work with the development team on sprint planning, refinement, and reviews
- Engage with end users and business stakeholders to surface needs and validate ideas
- Validate technical feasibility with senior engineering staff
- Make value-based trade-off calls to maximise delivered value
- Measure adoption, usage, and business impact after release
- Use visual communication methods like sketches, flows, and prototypes
Required qualifications
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in agile development teams
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise using data and value-based frameworks
- Ability to define and track product metrics and KPIs
- Capacity to recognise interdependencies across features and translate them into user stories
- Working familiarity with user experience principles and technical architecture
- Hands-on experience with backlog management tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to move forward decisively despite incomplete data
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale software initiatives and financial products
About the company
Eleving Group is a publicly listed international fintech company founded in 2012. Mogo's mission is to enable upward social mobility by providing entrepreneurs excluded from traditional banking systems access to credit.