Senior Product Owner

About nanameue, Inc.

At nanameue, Inc., our focus is to connect people through social media. nanameue, Inc. started in May of 2013 with roots in Japan and Thailand. We have built one of Japan’s top chat applications with 6.5M+ users and 75,000+ communities and growing.

nanameue, Inc. is built with people from a variety of different cultures from Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, and Australia to name a few. To maintain the global culture, our company language is English and we continue to welcome new members from all over the world.

Our goal is to build a virtual space where everyone can have their presence as themselves and welcome everyone as they are.

Description

The Senior Product Owner will help create and deliver best-in-class business systems and operational processes. This individual will be dedicated to the Agile Work Team to interface between the operations team and the delivery of new technology and code. The role is responsible to constantly think through the processes and needs of the business to support an efficient and error-free process for the member and provider.

The Senior Product Owner represents the business team in prioritizing the features for development, approving user stories, and ensuring clear communication flows back and forth. The individual will help shape and execute the product strategy that meets the department goals, engage in business case development, and ensure adherence to the Agile Scrum process.

Responsibilities:

• Define & communicate the overall vision, objectives and goals. Create, refine, socialize and prioritize the Product backlog.
• Enable delivery of Product Backlog by presenting backlog to team; creating, owning and refining well-formed user stories and artifacts that describe and detail new products, features and services based on feedback from team, creating acceptance criteria with the team, and accepting stories as they re completed
• Manage, Lead and Grow the Product Team as well as maintain cross-functional team relations
• Contribute to the maturity, performance and growth of the Agile team
• Work daily with scrum teams to refine, groom, and accept stories and bugs for implementation
• Create UAT test cases, organize and facilitate UAT testing, track test results, and work with the scrum master and agile team to resolve issues
• Represents the team, when needed, to external stakeholders, leaders and other teams to ensure alignment and understanding progress of the team
• Support the Agile Program and ensure the team follows enterprise Agile standards. Provide feedback to program on enhancements for the Agile process.- Champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas
• Ability to align and motivate a team to achieve objectives
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and redesign that will allow us to accomplish objectives more quickly and at a higher level of probability
• Work one on one with each team member to ensure their growth and accountability to the team is achieved
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build, prioritize and define workflows and requirements
• Reinforces team approach throughout organization both on user projects and internal initiatives
• Supports and solicits input from team members at all levels within the organization
• Create dynamic and a spirit of teamwork and collaboration
• Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen relationships

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Manager/Owner to a toC mobile application
• Ability to identify what raw data should be tagged from contributing systems and how to drive the work towards creating dashboards and reports
• Digital experience a must, as well knowledge on web3, Dapps and Blockchain
• Experience with a high user base for a toC product
• Experience and track record of success in directing the efforts of developers as a product owner in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks. Demonstrated knowledge of project management concepts (preferably Agile/SCRUM)
• Hands-on experience in leading process improvement initiatives
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills
• Fluent English and N2+ Japanese