Product Owner

The Role:

We have been developing products for Wall Street for the last 12 years. We grow increasingly, and our products help attract more than $30 billion of financing monthly.

Our clients: J.P.Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Dell, Ford, Tesla, and others.

The head office is in NY. The development office in Kyiv has operated for the last 8 years and comprises 100+ specialists across 10 Agile, DevOps, and Architect teams.

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our talented team and contribute to the success of our products.

Position Overview: The Product Owner (PO) plays a pivotal role within our Agile Teams, responsible for maximizing the delivered value for our customers and advocating for the product vision within the teams. The PO’s mission is to ensure that the Agile Teams are aligned with business goals and deliver high-value outputs consistently.

Key requirements:

● Understanding of common product development processes and Agile methodologies.

● 3+ years experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

● 1.5+ years experience in Product Owner/Product Manager role.

● Proficient in both English and Ukrainian (interview is in English).

● Has previously worked with third-party PM tools (YouTrack, Jira, Figma, etc.).

● Understanding Git workflows and Release management best practices.

Would be a plus:

● Working experience in the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environment, utilizing its principles and practices.

● Has experience managing products within the financial space.

● Has worked with similar technical stacks so understands some of the necessary development workflows.

● Understands and can demonstrate the use of relevant charting (Burndown, Cumulative Flow, etc.).

● Proficient in Office tools (Word and Excel).

● Certifications in Product Management/Product Ownership.

Key responsibilities:

● Backlog prioritization and delivery:

• Manage and prioritize the team backlog, define acceptance criteria for User Stories, prioritize features, and keep the backlog healthy and manageable.
• Inspect and accept user stories delivered during Sprints/Iterations, gather feedback, analyze it, and transform it into Backlog Items.
• Lead Backlog Refinement process. Utilize product knowledge and mentorship to guide developer confidence in estimations provided in order to challenge and support predictability across the team.

● Collaboration:

• Maximize the value delivered by the Agile team through effective task support, ticket management, knowledge sharing, and defining clear acceptance criteria.
• Provide daily guidance to the Agile team to ensure development aligns with the highest-value outputs and Sprint goals, participating in Daily Standups and ongoing communication.
• Communicate with sales and support team members as stakeholders when it is needed.
• Collaborate with the agile team and support team in incident’s investigation, resolution, and release.

● Business Domain knowledge:

• Daily communication with the product team (US located) to gather information about business and client use cases. Roadmap awareness. The goal is to build close to 100% understanding of how business works, what is coming next from development standpoint, and what business decisions are based on.
• Business knowledge support for developers. The goal is to be able to answer most of questions about business, that developers might have.

● Processes Enhancement:

• Utilize SAFe principles and practices to support the agile development process and promote alignment across teams.
• Foster team’s product mindset — the ability to solve problems and challenge given solutions through better understanding of the goals of the product and business.
• Take part in teaching team and implementation of new product development processes, where appropriate.

We offer besides competitive salary:

● The friendly and mature team (middle/senior level), where everyone can contribute to the product.

● Flexible working hours (you can start work from 8 till 12 depending on your daily meeting).

● Remote work, with the ability to return to the Kyiv office when possible.
The office is in the city center — business center Panorama near the Landscape Alley, 10 minutes from Zoloti Vorota metro station; photos — jobs.dou.ua/...​up-inc/photos/#photo83276.

● The informal style of leadership and communication, skilled management.

● Work in an Agile environment.

● Supported participation in seminars, trainings, and conferences.

● English lessons online and the possibility to use English at work.

● Team buildings and other activities.

● Yearly salary review.

● Paid vacation, paid sick leave.

● Corporate medical insurance programs from the start date.

● PE accounting and support.

● No trial periods.

● Referral program.

About Finsight:

Finsight Group Inc. is a New York City-based product company that offers a highly accessible, cost-effective, and frictionless environment to research, prospect, structure, market, and monitor new issue and secondary market securities.

We are a friendly, close-knit team of motivated and open-minded individuals committed to personal development, solving real problems, and delivering excellent products and services to our clients.

We develop four leading platforms in US Fixed Income. Every month, over $30 billion of financing is exclusively marketed through our software across all major Wall Street banks and hundreds of the largest corporations in the world.

Our products:

• Finsight (finsight.com) — a free new issue deal database and search engine for US asset-backed securities
• Datarooms (dealvdr.com, 17g5.com, investorset.com, verisend.com) — an electronic data room used to share up to tens of thousands of files with counterparties, streamlining compliance with SEC Rule 17g5, and serving as a document library for corporates to streamline investor access to deal documentation and periodic reporting. Includes verbose user permissions.
• Deal Roadshow (dealroadshow.finsight.com) — an electronic roadshow platform used to market deal and non-deal roadshows for equity, debt, municipal, and private placement offerings.
• Evercall (evercall.co) is an operator-assisted conference call service specializing in capital markets and corporate finance events.
• CapEdge (capedge.com) — a database and search engine for SEC (EDGAR) filings and earnings transcripts
• Allocate — a powerful archive and visualization solution for final allocations of a new issue book-building process.