Product Owner
Do you want to help us unleash the secret to how happy employees create a happy business? We are an innovative, agile and continuously growing modern tech company on a path to improve the work lives of millions around the world.
We develop workforce management solutions - a software that makes scheduling and time reporting more smooth and flexible for almost a million users across the world. Quinyx recently acquired Concrete, a leading employee engagement, store operations, and task management platform, find more details in our press release here https://www.quinyx.com/press/quinyx-acquires-concrete. This role is part of the Concrete Product team at Quinyx.
Are you curious and ready to take the first steps on an awesome journey and make magic happen with us? As a member of the Quinyx family, you will be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace, where you are allowed to be yourself and thrive.
About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic Product Owner, who’s motivated by solving our customers’ problems, tackling new challenges and immediately delivering value. Working with the entire organisation, you’ll provide a leading role in building & launching new features for our clients.
You’ll be the custodian of the product backlog, and will own the process of defining, setting and prioritising the work. To do this, you’ll need to be a conscientious, proactive, self-starter, who has a high degree of personal accountability and initiative.
Concrete product team is a great place to learn and experiment with new ideas: we want to help you enhance your career. Your impact here will truly matter; your decisions will have an immediate effect on our market-leading product.
What you’ll be doing
- Internally, you will champion the voice of the customer.
- Engage continuously with our customers to understand and validate their needs.
- Ensure there is a healthy, prioritised, well-maintained backlog of valuable work for the development teams.
- Ensure solutions are prioritised and aligned with customer needs, business commitments and overall company strategy.
- Create user stories to express value to the teams. Be responsible for the end-to-end process of turning high-level user needs & problems into buildable solutions, which deliver a fantastic user experience.
- Collaborate with product, design, engineering, internal stakeholders and customers to find and agree on the right way forward.
- Provide a leading role in managing the scope of work for teams, identifying risks, dependencies and impediments through the value stream.
- Throughout the process, ensure that the development delivers the intended value and solves the original problem, by setting SMART goals.
- Identify & action iterations and ways of evolving the product, using research and key metrics where applicable.
- Gather and handle incoming requests, opportunities and issues - reprioritise and negotiate with stakeholders when needed.
- Proactively champion and communicate new features, author release comms, resolve stakeholder queries and be the primary point of contact for queries related to the product.
- Work with the wider Product team to shape the vision, direction and quality of the product, understanding our market and competitive landscape.
- Seek out and raise ways to improve the overall product development process, drawing from the latest Agile and Lean approaches.
Apply for this role if…
- You enjoy solving problems
- You are able to retain a sharp focus on Why you are building what you are building.
- You are experienced working with software or technology teams.
- You can experiment and ideate to help inform your thinking, and are then able to validate your approach or hypotheses.
- You seek opportunities where small changes can achieve great outcomes.
- You can communicate your ideas, but listen equally well. You are able to challenge, and are happy for others to challenge you.
- You can think clearly when things don’t go according to plan.
- You’re hands-on, proactive and don’t mind taking the lead.
- You are reliable; you are able to self-organise and can manage to have a few things on your plate at once.
- You are keen to learn and are happy to throw yourself into new challenges.
- You put real care into what you do.
- You want to make a big impact - we are a relatively small but highly-skilled team; you will instantly be able to make a real difference to Concrete and our customers.
What’s in it for you?
We promote and encourage a healthy lifestyle with flexible work hours and the latest tools, enhanced vacation allowance, wellness, home office, professional development contributions, virtual yoga classes, and last but not least, you will have the chance to participate in our well-known yearly ping-pong tournament!
Life at Quinyx
We are an innovative, agile and continuously growing modern tech company. We value passion, creativity, quality and simplicity. You’ll be given the opportunity to make an impact and directly contribute to our success, bring new ideas and have full ownership of your area.
Our global team, of 30 nationalities, have fun together whether it is during a typical Swedish Fika, workshop, going for a run with a colleague or spending time together during the annual company Goal trip, team kickoffs, or after-work socials. We have built a family atmosphere here at Quinyx and are committed to sharing knowledge and supporting one another!
Want to join the family?
At Quinyx, we provide equal employment opportunities and we strive to have an inclusive and diverse value-driven culture. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.
Happy Workforce, Happy Business!
London
How we Enjoy Work
We’ve built a family atmosphere here at Quinyx and are committed to supporting one another!
We’re an international team from various parts of the world who all come together to create the best possible work environment. We have fun together whether it’s during a typical Swedish fika, various workshops, going for a run with a colleague or at one of our epic company off-sites. This is how we stay innovative!
We’ll provide you with the training and tools needed to be effective and successful, flexible working hours, generous amount of vacation, gym contribution - among other great benefits, and last but not least, you’ll have the chance to participate in our well known ping-pong tournament!
About Quinyx
Quinyx is a cloud-based Workforce Management software that makes Scheduling, Engagement, Time & Attendance, AI Forecasting and Labor Optimization more smooth and flexible for close to a million users worldwide.
Quinyx was founded by our CEO Erik Fjellborg when working at McDonald’s as a student. After seeing how difficult it was for managers to manually schedule the staff, Erik created the scheduling tool Quinyx. McDonald’s loved the solution and became the first customer. Today, we work with some of the world’s biggest brands like Starbucks, GANT, DHL, Hilton, Coolblue, Sysco and many more.
We are driven by the belief that staff management can be made much more efficient and fun!
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