Product Owner

The Company

Cubic³ provides advanced software-defined vehicle solutions to over 200 countries around the world. Our powerfully smart connectivity enables leading automotive, agriculture, and transportation OEMs to deliver innovative new services and fully compliant in-vehicle experiences that customers desire, regardless of local market requirements.

We believe in leadership that supports empowerment and responsibility, while recognising and developing leadership qualities across Our Team. Together we bring out the best in each other. So, whether you’re interested in joining us as an individual contributor, manager, senior leader – or someone who aspires to growing into a leadership role – we look for people who are results focused, empathetic, visionary, empowering, and who ‘champion’ our cultures and values.

The Role

We are looking for a Product Owner who thrives working in a fast-paced, highly flexible environment. The Product Owner will work in a high performing Product Management Team, driving execution of the product roadmap using agile development methodologies. Working closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to develop the strategic product plan, you will collaborate with Commercial, Engineering, Data Science and Analytics teams to meet customer needs. They will become a driving force in the next stage of development and growth of Cubic³ as the leading IoT connectivity solution provider.

Key Responsibilities:

Work closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to build and maintain a deep understanding of the IoT connectivity and applications market to be able to collaborate on definition of Cubic³ product vision and strategy

Understand assigned products at a high level and assists the Product Team with technical and business analysis activities

Write detailed requirements & specifications, including User Story Acceptance Criteria and Non-functional Requirements

Serve as the voice of the customer internally: Understand the system users and the user experiences.

Work closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to solidify the user experience with the functional requirements and to translate the business and service performance requirements into non-functional requirements

Work with Engineering and Data Science teams to ensure that they understand the vision and scope for each feature

Work closely with other Cubic³ departments (e.g. Live Services, Network, SIM, Finance) to define internal requirements in collaboration with other Product Owners and Product Managers.

Actively contribute to Agile processes and ceremonies: acting in a product owner role

Track release schedule in collaboration with Project Management Office

Work closely with delivery teams to clarify the product requirements, and ultimately to secure product release scope and timeline as agreed in the product roadmap

Support customer interactions, specifically when validating new functionality or collating information about enhancement requests or defects

Be proactive and diligent in setting up meetings, taking meeting minutes and publishing minutes

Review and validate test plans and approve test results prior to the customer deployments

Work with Project Managers and Technical Team Leads to collaborate on processes, timelines and conflict resolution

Actively contribute to the growth and development of the Product Owner community by sharing knowledge, promoting best practices, supporting continuous learning, and helping to improve ways of working across the team

Produce and maintain product documentation and collaterals: sales and pre-sales tools, user documentation

Provide product training to Sales, delivery, and support teams

Support Product Management with replies to RFxs by providing answers to technical questions where required

Support Product Management in continuously analysing and documenting product performance

Requirements

Basic Requirements and Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, IT, Information Systems or Engineering or equivalent work experience

3+ years of Agile Product Owner experience, with Software background and including SaaS architecture, business models, implementation challenges

Substantial technical background is essential, including experience working with complex software products

Strong time-management and prioritization skills as well as attention to detail

Ability to dive deep and is never out of touch with the details of the business and the technology

Strong presentation skills using tools such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word.

A real team player, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to create excellent working relationships with diverse teams and job functions throughout the organization; especially proven respect for and track record successfully working with designers and developers

Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives

Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions

Flexibility to undertake occasional international travel to visit customers and/or partners

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with Data Science and Analytics teams

Passion for and understanding of how IoT systems work from end nodes to cloud to application software, with special focus on wireless technologies

Experience delivering enterprise software products and services in a high growth environment

High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is desired

History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job done

New hires at Cubic³ are required to work onsite five days a week during their six-month probation period to get to know the company, their team, and our ways of working. After probation, we offer a flexible arrangement of up to eight work-from-home days per month, provided it aligns with business needs and performance standards. This arrangement is not a given for all roles.

Cubic³ is an equal opportunities employer and committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.