Product Owner Security And Common Component

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Description

Since our launch in 2012, we’ve been on a mission: to make digital identification simple and secure for everyone, and everything. In that time, we’ve expanded constantly, and been joined by over 150 incredible people, all with the same vision. We’ve grown in other ways too – we raised $35m in our Series A funding round, and launched our game-changing authentication platform.

Our technology is now being used by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, including some of the world’s leading financial institutions. And this is just the beginning.

Over the next year, Callsign will double in size as we continue our mission to make every web, mobile and physical interaction seamless and secure. We can’t do that alone, though. That’s why we’re looking to hire the brightest, most inquisitive minds out there: the people who want to help us change the rules of identity – and have the skills and passion to make this mission a reality.

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Callsign delivers new and exciting capabilities aligned to our Intelligence Driven Authentication capabilities.

Product Owner is an incredibly important role where successful candidates can immediately execute and independently own and drive the delivery and shape of Callsigns future product(s) and capabilities.

Our delivery model is changing and as such we are organizing cross-functional and cross-product feature teams for continuous delivery to our products and services.

Product managers can expect to work closely with many SCRUM teams and be the key champion of feature deliveries important to their product.

The following is relevant to each product manager role profile available.

Responsibilities

• Product focus person who has security experience across technical and business products.
• Create, build, and manage internal and external relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal technology teams.
• Responsible for managing the primary relationship between products and security teams.
• Responsible for shaping common components features (features that are the foundation of all products and are consumed by products).
• Provide dedicated internal and external customer support, acting as the conduit into products for any security and common component support requirements related to product feature developments.
• Drive the creation of collateral, training, reporting, remediation plans, etc. to support security teams and management.
• Drive efficiencies and innovations for delivery and understand key tech and initiatives flowing down from the group.
• Ensure processes, quality, and scheduling are met, while providing industry knowledge and support to team members.

Planning

• As a product manager, take responsibility for product-led engineering.
• Work closely with the VP of Product and define a product vision and own an internal and externally facing roadmap to achieve landmark objectives.
• Lead the planning of product release plans and setting of expectations for delivery of new functionalities.
• Manage inbound customer feature requests on the backlog and roadmap.
• Manage inbound customer defect fixes on the backlog.

Product-Led Engineering

• Provide vision and direction to the Agile engineering team and stakeholders throughout delivery phases.
• Create requirements, working closely with business analysts, to ensure definition ready is met with understandable user stories and BDD acceptance criteria.
• Ensure feature teams always have an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on to ensure continuous value add.
• Own product feature backlog and development for the product including assessing value (strategy), developing use cases (design), prioritizing stories, epics, themes and owning scope calls (backlog management).
• Focus on delivering the best experiences and maximum value aligned with our product strategy.
• Engage with the wider company to facilitate internal ideas and recommendations for product enhancements.

Strategy Contribution

• Support research and market analysis to ensure our product strategy and roadmap are aligned.

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• Follow our competitors and wider industry changes.

Requirements

The right candidate will have the following skills and background:

• Desirable 3+ years experience in the identity or fraud prevention space.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage end-to-end projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent problem solver with the ability to think on your feet and come up with innovative ideas and solutions.
• Experience working in a high growth, fast paced tech environment.
• Ideally experienced in technical product security products.
• Working knowledge of product lifecycle management.
• Engineering experience is a distinct advantage.
• Security experience is a distinct advantage.
• Support the planning of product release plans and the practical implications of live product support.
• Manage internal feedback from the product and security teams into product development strategy and roadmap.
• Own common component and security product development strategy and roadmap; including the assessment of value (strategy), development of use cases (design), prioritisation of stories, epics, themes, ownership of backlog management.
• Comfortable with reading and understanding new technologies and specifications but ensuring that, if leveraged, they are delivered with business objectives and clear and understandable business reasoning.
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills is important.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrate integrity, positive attitude, proven work ethic, camaraderie to the team and a real passion for excellence.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• We are looking for those with 3+ years of experience as a product manager plus a university degree (2:1) or 5+ years of experience as a product manager.

Benefits

• Private premium health insurance.
• Visa costs covered.
• Relocation support provided.
• Annual airfare allowance for the home country.
• 3 months full pay maternity leave and 2 weeks full pay paternity leave.
• 25 days of annual leave plus Callsign bank holiday (not included in holiday allowance).
• Competitive salary.
• Gratuity as end of service benefit.