Product Owner (Fintech)

Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Mindera is seeking a highly skilled Product Owner with a strong technical background to join our world-class team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in Agile methodologies and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to lead a team of developers in crafting solutions for a fintech project. You will be instrumental in the product life cycle, gathering and refining playable requirements, defining them in collaboration with development and business teams, and ensuring constant progress and alignment through effective stakeholder communication. We are looking for a Product Owner who has prior experience working with development teams and can serve as the primary point of contact for clients and business stakeholders.

Expected Travel: 0%-15% (UK and USA, varies by project/client). You will be working with teams across different time zones and locations.

Requirements

• Experience:
  • 5+ years of enterprise experience supporting Agile development teams as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
  • Ideally, previous experience in the fintech industry.
• Skills:
  • Ability to coordinate schedules across multiple time zones.
  • Effective communication skills.
  • Proven track record of management skills, including conflict resolution, multi-reporting, roadmap planning, and backlog management.
  • Software engineering background with the ability to comfortably discuss technical jargon.
  • Proven ability to analyze product use cases and requirements across all SDLC phases (architecture, development, testing, deployment).
    • Note: While you will not be required to provide architectural or coding solutions, you must be comfortable participating in these discussions and influencing from a business and client requirements standpoint.

Responsibilities

• Mentor the team as an Agile advocate and promote continuous improvement processes.
• Manage and coach the team on resolving conflicts and impediments.
• Ensure all stakeholders are consistently updated on team progress and deliverable status through open and honest communication.
• Provide clear, audience-specific reports.
• Leverage prior technical/coding experience to triage development and QA tickets based on business and customer priorities.
• Own and supervise the product backlog, story writing, project roadmap, and dependencies.
• Translate product features into well-defined product requirements, including features, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with development teams, software architects, and business stakeholders to set and communicate release schedules, dates, and scope.
• Ensure the team's delivery against the agreed-upon plan.
• Influence the product vision definition and break it down into smaller, incremental deliverables.
• Assist in identifying market opportunities.
• Plan and execute the end-to-end product development lifecycle.

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups
• Training & conferences (create your own training plan)
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose your own Laptop & Peripherals
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT)
• Access to offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra for physical connection.
• Remote work from Portugal is an option. Remote work from other countries is dependent on current location and projects.
• Snacks available at the offices.
• Partnerships with local businesses.
• Work with a great team in a politics-free environment where the whole team owns the project.

Our culture reflects our values.