Product Owner - Helsinki

This role is available through Jefferson Frank, an international agency that has grown to be one of the trusted recruitment partners to businesses across Finland in different industries and domains. To learn more about this opportunity, reach out to George Paxton on LinkedIn who is responsible for this advert.

Company Details

Start-ups & SME's are the backbone of the majority of markets internationally. In some markets, companies which are in these categories make up 98% of ALL enterprises. Before technical products can be released to customers, much to the frustration of developers at times, a rigorous testing process needs to be followed.

95% of all product launches fail, the data strongly suggests that companies which take a data-driven & interactive approach to innovation are those which are more successful. This scale-up has built a cloud-based product which automates the testing process from defining business questions and outlining value propositions to final verdicts/decisions. As a result, 3 out of 4 customers see new product launches succeed.

Through the companies lifespan, they've completed 4000 tests with 240 million respondents across 130 markets. 86% of customers state their advanced methods offer clear insights with 90% of customers agreeing they adopt a simple yet effective process.

The Role

This vacancy is split into 3 core segments; new feature delivery, process development & new feature strategy & roadmap.

Your primary focus will be on new feature delivery. You'll work as a manager of new feature development projects working in co-operation with designers to prototype design; building user stories, build designs with Figma and work through acceptance criteria. In addition to this, you'll collaborate with Development, Data Science and QA teams as well as Clients, Internal stakeholders and Vendors to ensure quality product development across the organisation.

In regards to process development you'll contribute to projects and action improvement points when it comes to 'ways of working' across product development and tech personnel. There will also be an expectation for you to bring new ideas to the table.

Finally, you'll play an important role in defining and maintaining the product roadmap in collaboration with the CPO. You'll work in a project basis; leading or participating in new feature discovery and experimentation.

What they're looking for

* 5+ years Product Owner experience in similar, SaaS & product based teams/companies.
* End-to-end experience within product development and/or product discovery to launch new services.
* Demonstrate the ability to be a creative problem solver.

Beneficial if you have?

* Past development experience with Python and/or JavaScript with frameworks including Django, Flask, FastAPI, TypeScript, React or Vue.js.
* Entrepreneurial mindset who is motivated to take on big challenges.

Next Steps

If you're looking for a new role where you get full creative control both from a cultural and design perspective then this could be for you. Having hired aggressively in 2023 across all levels of the business, this is an opportunity to join a scale-up with a promising future which will be well setup for the future.

The client can offer a highly competitive total compensation package including stock options. Furthermore, you'll get to work in a unique & rare position where the product development is built around you. Allowing your team to be an extension of yourself and your approach to development.

If you're considering taking that next step for this opportunity or simply want to learn more about this company or others that Jefferson Frank is actively working in Finland. Submit your CV via this job portal or reach out to George Paxton on LinkedIn.