Team Lead Product Owner
BrainRocket is a global company creating end-to-end tech products for clients across Fintech, iGaming, and Marketing. Young, ambitious, and unstoppable, we've already taken Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Poland, and Serbia by storm. Our BRO team consists of 1,300 bright minds creating innovative ideas and products. We don’t follow formats. We shape them. We build what works, launch it fast, and make sure it hits. We are looking for a skilled Team Lead Product Owner to join us and visit our office in Valencia, Spain!
- Manage Product Backlog Formulating the list of backlog items and prioritising them as per the critical business objectives;
- Define Sprint Objectives The product owner defines the suggested sprint objective which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal;
- Review and approve the work done by the development team: The product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification;
- Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: The Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders; They need to be clear and concise communicators to ensure there is approval of the stakeholders for all major decisions and strategies;
- Backlog Refinement: Ability to prioritise, enhance, and finalise the items with the team before the sprint planning;
- Create and Maintain Change Requests Associated with the Product: Predominantly an Operational task. The Product Owner will gather and prioritise operational changes and include them within the Product Backlog for future sprint iteration;
- Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: The Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve. Having strongly defined acceptance criteria is vital to ensure that the Product performs to the expected standard. A/C's should always be confirmed with Stakeholders and will be used as a baseline for QA to test against;
- Gather Functional and non Functional Requirements: The Product Owner will ensure that all requirements are gathered and that they meet the Product Managers expectations;
- Maintain Requirements: Requirements may be adjusted during the project lifecycle, this is to be expected in a dynamic environment such as ours. If a requirement is adjusted then this must be reflected at the appropriate level (Epic, Story);
- Verify Requirements: Once the requirements, functional and non functional, have been gathered from the Stakeholder the Product Owner will confirm and agree that the requirements are fit for purpose and use;
- Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases. Although the creation of these artefacts may be done by another team the Product Owner holds accountability for the quality of their content;
- Participate in OKR planning: Working closely with stakeholders and participating in quarterly OKR planning for the product, including estimating their achievement.
- At least 3 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst).
- At least 3 years as a Team Lead Product Owner.
- Technical understanding in the following areas: Requirements lifecycle, Product backlog management, Product development architecture, Scrum and Agile development methodologies, User experience principles, Coding and designing (nice to have).
- Communication Skills (Proficient in English)
- Analytical Skills
- Decision Making
- Organisational skills
- Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Professional Certification: PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement
BrainRocket is a software development and design company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. It builds end-to-end technology products across industries including iGaming, fintech and marketing, covering platform development, payments, CRM, data and AI. The company employs more than 1,300 people, with additional offices in Malta, Poland, Portugal and Serbia, and has delivered over 100 products across 20 markets. BrainRocket positions itself as a full-cycle technology partner engineering software built for scale and performance.
