Technical Product Owner

Description

The team is hiring a Technical Product Owner to work on one or more web and mobile games, with a company whose aim is to become a leading games publisher.

You will join technical experts and creative people in a fast-growing games business that is expanding into new markets.

Responsibilities

• Work with technical and business colleagues to build and rank the backlog for one or more web and mobile games.
• Partner with solution architects, producers, scrum masters, art and development leads to design technical solutions that deliver the product vision.
• Write epics and user stories and flesh out their detail.
• Motivate development teams to build creative solutions that meet their time limits.
• Drive ongoing improvement across the team.
• Serve as the link between teams to clear blockers and technical dependencies.

Requirements

• Experience in a technical role such as software developer, tester or technical analyst.
• Experience writing Technical Design Documents or Technical Requirements.
• Solid understanding of client-server architectures and networking.
• Ability to grasp the technical detail of a system and spot edge cases and performance problems in a proposed design.
• Ability to run development and delivery across several locations and time zones.
• Experience at a games or mobile apps studio.
• Experience with JIRA, managing development backlogs, writing detailed user stories and drawing flow diagrams.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL and integrating third-party systems.
• Scrum product owner certification.
• Enthusiasm for social and mobile games.

Conditions

Pay is set by skills, experience, qualifications and location, and the company rewards individual impact.

Depending on role and location, eligibility may include annual bonuses and incentives, health and wellbeing benefits, paid time off, retirement plans, insurance and other local or statutory benefits.

Compensation and benefit details for this role will be shared during the hiring process.

This posting was partly drafted with AI-assisted tools; the final content, requirements and hiring decisions are reviewed and approved by people at the company.