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Product Owner
- Posted 19 December 2024
- LocationPerth
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Product & Engineering
- ReferenceJ13924
Job description
We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.
Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.
What does Access offer you?
We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.
On top of a competitive salary, our wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year and a health contribution, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have three charity days allocated to support a cause that matters to you.
About you:
You are an experienced Product Owner/Business Analyst, ideally with a payroll, rostering or HR background, who has a passion for product, a well-rounded knowledge of agile development and an ability to communicate requirements and make decisions. You love working collaboratively in your team and across other engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure that dependencies are managed, issues and risks are communicated and that you are consistently delivering value
Ideally the successful candidate will be Perth based, but we’re also open to considering Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane as alternatives.
Day-to-day, you will:
• Be the representative within your allocated Development Team for the Product Manager. You will be focused on tactical delivery, quarterly planning and elaborations as well as sprint plans and incremental delivery.
• Gather the requirements from the Product Manager and other Stakeholders to ensure that the problem to be solved is clearly articulated and converted into stories and acceptance criteria.
• Be working collaboratively with other development teams and stakeholders to ensure that dependencies are managed, and issues and risks are communicated.
• Contribute product release notes, prepare internal training videos, presentations and customer material as needed to support Go to Market collateral.
• Clearly identify and make decisions regarding the prioritization of product backlog.
Your skills and experiences might also include:
• An ability to prioritize requirements and stories - weighing up complexity, risk and value.
• Taking high level ideas, concepts and problem statements and breaking these down into clear user stories with an emphasis on simplicity and ease of understanding, while ensuring the root problem is resolved.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a PO/BA role and a good working knowledge of agile development methods, processes and best practices.
• An awareness of the evolution in various technologies and how these can help to increase software & product value
• Strong communication, influencing, negotiation and collaboration skills and experience in Jira & Confluence
What are we all about?
The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.
At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you?
Let's make a difference together.
Love Work. Love Life. Be You.