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Form of workWe thrive on progress - for our clients and for ourselves. Our organizational culture is ever-evolving, vibrant, diverse, global, and results focused. You'll find our 350+ team currently across 9 locations and time zones.
The Role:
Our technology team thrives on inclusivity and collaboration, believing that diverse perspectives lead to great solutions. We foster a culture that champions individual growth, professional development, and work-life harmony. We're invested in your success and dedicated to supporting you every step of the way. We encourage our team to bring challenge thinking and fresh ideas to the table and our Agile approach empowers us to focus on outcomes. When we hire someone its because they are bring the skills, attitude and experience we're looking for....so we let you do what you are best at! Join us and be part of a community that's passionate about harnessing technology's potential to drive market leading solutions for our clients. Elevate your career in an environment where your ideas matter, your growth is nurtured, and your potential is limitless.
We are currently going through an exciting phase of growth as we invest in cutting-edge technologies. This position for a Product Owner is one of our most recent additions, dedicated to translating future state product vision and IT strategy into prioritised team roadmaps and backlogs, ensuring valuable changes are delivered with a high level of quality.
As the newest member of our Program Management and delivery team, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to clarify the scope of changes, as well as plan and facilitate releases and IT governance processes to ensure transparency and alignment among teams. The Product Owner will also share and celebrate successful deliveries with stakeholders and the wider business.
As our Product Owner your key responsibilities include, but not limited to :
- Managing backlog priorities according to the roadmap while ensuring clear understanding of requirements within the team.
- Drive planning based on feature priority, strategy, and team capacity.
- Planning sprints with team input and updating roadmap based on sprint progress, collaborating on adjustments with stakeholders.
- Owning and defining delivery roadmap while using Agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver initiatives and epics.
- Identifying and handling delivery dependencies, blockers, and risks.
- Managing release process, stakeholder communications, and change management and conducting regular retrospectives for continuous improvement
- Managing delivery risks in line with company processes.
- Tracking team velocity and engagement metrics.
- Providing relevant reporting on the status of delivery and follow the governance structure.
- Planning and organising demos, facilitate collection and processing of feedback.
About You:
- Previous experience as a Product Owner experience in a similar role, e.g. Scrum Product Owner, SAFe Product Owner, or Delivery Lead
- Experience in a software development environment working closely with engineers, or previous software development experience
- Experience working in an agile environment (preferably, scaled agile - SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, or other framework)
- Previous experience working on customer experience based projects for mobile and web
- Ideally previous exposure to financial services or other regulated environments
- A natural collaborator, working across diverse teams and stakeholders to define and deliver on a strategy that supports the desired commercial priorities.
Why you will enjoy working with us:
- Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme
- Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture
- Flexible and hybrid working
- Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard
- Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities
- 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave
- 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program
- Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social
- Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne
- Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers
- A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas
More about Pepperstone
We're a regulated online Forex and CFD trading platform. With the scale of a global fintech and the agility of a start-up, we arm our clients with everything they need to take on the global markets with confidence. You will be part of a wider passionate and friendly team, and whilst things may not always go to plan, we learn quickly and move forward with impact. To learn even more visit Pepperstonecareers.com and www.linkedin.com/company/pepperstone/
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Pepperstone is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about building a diverse workplace and strongly encourage applications from any background.
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Note to external agencies: While we appreciate the efforts of external recruitment agencies, we prefer to engage directly with applicants for this opportunity.
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