Job Summary
IQGeo is seeking a Product Owner as an integral part of the IQGeo Services Team supporting the implementation of IQGeo’s Web and Mobile Mapping Software for domestic and international enterprise customers. The Product Owner will play a crucial role in ensuring successful planning and execution of projects with significant scope and complexity for our customers in the Telecommunications markets. You will work closely with various stakeholders, understanding needs and translating them into business and technical requirements. This role is about translating your passion for telecommunications and geospatial software, incorporating your love for technology and problem-solving. Our flexible scheduling and outstanding benefits support success in a highly creative, innovative, and energetic company.
Duties/Responsibilities
- Manage communication and collaborate with stakeholders to understand project requirements, goals, and deliverables and translate to product/solution requirements to reach definition of ready.
- Being consultative to customers based on current operational processes and their fit with IQGeo products.
- Create user stories for development backlogs with acceptance criteria based on requirements provided by the customer
- Manage development backlog and prioritise based on changing requirements and address any gaps/unknowns.
- Identify potential risks and issues that may impact project delivery.
- Author and deliver comprehensive documentation including business requirement documents, use cases and process flows.
- Develop strong, trusted-advisor relationships within the customer’s project team.
- Arbiter and advocate of solution acceptance.
- Attend SCRUM ceremonies.
- Facilitate customer demonstrations to describe and show business value
- Understand complex software, system and platform technology and use cases.
- Work with IQGeo product managers to understand the product vision and provide feedback to the product management group on customer requirements and use cases for future consideration in the overall roadmap.
- Ability to occasionally travel (less than 20%)
- Perform other related duties, as assigned.
Required Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Excellent domain knowledge of telecommunications networks, in particular network planning, construction, and maintenance programs.
- Experience working with web mapping software and/or geographical information systems.
- In-depth knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology in an enterprise environment
- Experience with creating requirements documents and other such written project artifacts pertaining to the job role
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead, large, complex projects from concept to delivery and continuous improvement
- Experience with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and road mapping tools.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
Desirable
- Experience working with SaaS Products
- Certified Scrum Product Owner
- Experience of delivering ‘tier 1’ large customer projects
- Software Development background
- UI/UX experience and or Certification
- Previous experience within an agile software development environment, preferably web-based and customer facing.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in other languages (German, Dutch, Arabic…)
General
- Excellent oral/ written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
- Ability to prioritise effectively and work on concurrent projects
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams
Education and Experience
- 3+ years’ experience as a product owner, business analyst, telecoms/geospatial SME consultant or requirements engineer.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree from an accredited university in Geomatics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 5 years of software technology and industry experience.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
What’s In it For You
- 25 days of paid holiday, with the opportunity to purchase further days up to a total of 30.
- Charity/Volunteering day each year.
- Company-matched pension contributions of up to 6% base salary.
- Private medical insurance.
Health cash plan.
- Company life assurance (4x gross salary).
- Incapacity benefit.
- Enhanced maternity leave policy.
- EV company car scheme (salary sacrifice).
- Cycle scheme (salary sacrifice).
- Give as you earn charity scheme.
- Mentor program.
Flexible Working
We support hybrid and flexible working arrangements for all employees. We understand that life for many people involves school runs, care
giving, or exercising!
Work Permits & Visas
You must already have the right to work permanently in United Kingdom.
IQGeo is not able to sponsor work permits.
About IQGeo
IQGeo™ is based in Cambridge, UK with regional offices in the United States, Canada, Belgium, Germany, Malaysia, and Japan. We are
supported by a global network of highly skilled partners. Originally founded as Ubisense Ltd in 2002, the IQGeo brand was launched in
January 2019 after the company was split into two separate businesses. Led by a team of geospatial technology pioneers, the IQGeo
Platform software was first launched in 2010 and has an impressive pedigree in the telco, communications, and utility industries. In 2020,
IQGeo acquired OSPInsight, a provider of fiber network management software, and in 2022 IQGeo acquired Comsof, a world leader in
automated network design, headquartered in Belgium.
Today, IQGeo is the leader in introducing modern web and mobile geospatial applications into the communications and utility industries.