Product Owner

A product owner ensures their products offer optimal value to potential customers. Though the role can vary from company to company, product owners usually lead each product development cycle. Early in a product’s lifecycle, they might strategize business value, collaborate with designers, analyze the competitive landscape, and define the marketplace. Once a product is released, they might interface with customers, gather feature requests, schedule new releases, and coordinate sprints. (Linkedin.com)

Salary Range: S$61,000 to S$200,000 per year

Other titles: Product Manager, Product Director

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Job Tasks

Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product

Develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they’re clearly understood by the development teams

Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy

Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals

Lead the product-release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities

Serve as the product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions related to the product

Human Skills

Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Decision-making — Product owners have the authority to alter and tweak aspects of the development process or product, so they may benefit from being able to make decisions clearly and efficiently.

Interpersonal communication — Because product owners frequently discuss ideas with internal and external stakeholders, strong interpersonal communication is an important skill for these professionals to master.

Teamwork and Leadership — As a product owner, you may be responsible for managing teams of employees and providing them with guidance, feedback and advice.

Conflict Resolution — Product owners may encounter situations where stakeholders or scrum team members disagree, which may lead to a stall in production without interference and problem-solving strategies. This means that these professionals may use their conflict resolution capabilities to address internal and external disagreements promptly.

Technology Skills

Communication software — MS Teams; Zoom; Google Meet

Data visualisation — Excel

Presentation software — Microsoft Office

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