Senior Product Owner in Belfast

Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland - Hybrid (2 days per week in Office)

Purpose and Importance of Position:

Operates under the direction of the Director of Application Development. Collaborates effectively with Technologists, Managers, and Principals to define and deliver high-quality products and services for RiverStone’s business. Assumes ownership of the product backlog for one or more products across multiple workstreams. Responsible for establishing strong partnerships with business stakeholders to identify, plan, and execute strategic product roadmaps and visions.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for product management, including shaping product vision and developing strategic roadmaps (epics), authoring and maintaining Product Backlogs, and translating features into actionable user stories.
• Familiar with AI concepts and able to effectively shorten product design and development with effective use of AI tools.
• Facilitate and lead collaborative sessions such as whiteboarding workshops to uncover and clarify business processes, requirements, expectations, and priorities.
• Maintain Sprint Backlogs and fulfil the responsibilities of a Scrum Product Owner within an agile delivery framework.
• Work with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to refine and prioritise product backlogs ahead of quarterly planning cycles.
• Identify, monitor, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure timely and efficient delivery of product commitments.
• Partner with development teams to ensure agreed commitments are achieved and delivered to specification.
• Organise and present sprint and quarterly demonstrations of completed features to stakeholders.
• Work closely with key business partners, including Business Stakeholders, Directors, and Managers, to escalate issues, manage external dependencies, and provide clear visibility of backlog progress.
• Promote and encourage best Agile practices across teams, setting standards, and coaching other areas as required.

Required Skills:

• Recognized Product Owner certification (or similar).
• Excellent communication skills as well as exceptional analytical and time management capabilities.
• Ability to build a firm business understanding in a complex domain.
• Proven ability to negotiate with and manage stakeholders up to and including C-suite.
• Demonstrable skills in problem solving and process solutioning.
• Experience in supporting team through estimating/sizing and mapping this to achievable Business commitments.
• Adept at working both individually and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Customer service oriented with the ability for developing long lasting relationships with internal and external business partners.
• Basic SQL skills.

Organizational:

• Develops creative ideas and solutions to business problems and/or opportunities; takes reasonable, calculated risks.
• Empowered to continuously improve RiverStone’s business processes/systems and proactively surface ideas and solutions.
• Consistently delivers excellent customer service to both internal and external business partners.
• Prioritises and organizes work in a self-directed manner.
• Performs other duties as required, including supporting and coordinating with other department colleagues.

Experience:

• Product Owner of an owned application or product.
• 5+ years of working within a pure Agile team.
• 5+ years of building team sprint backlogs in collaboration while impacting a larger program.
• Hands-on technical experience with a firm grasp of technologies utilised within the team.
• Full understanding of project management methodologies, particularly SCRUM.

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Supervisory Role:

• Minimal, but with experience of mentoring junior team members.

Travel:

• Minimal to none, based upon business needs with occasional trips onsite Manchester/NH visits.

Work Environment / Physical Demands:

This position operates in a professional, collaborative environment and must have the ability to timely produce thorough, accurate work with many competing demands, deadlines, and distractions.

Core Competencies:

• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; open to change; analyses both successes and failures for clues to improvement.
• Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organise people and activities.
• Sizing Up People: Is a good judge of talent; can accurately project what people are likely to do across a variety of situations.
• Ethics and Values: Adheres to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging:

RiverStone Resources, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, LGBTQ+, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.