Product Owner (вакансія неактивна)

We are LIGA ZAKON, a Ukrainian IT company with 30 years of experience in developing information-analytical products. Our flagship offering, LIGA360, is a cloud platform designed to help businesses, government agencies, and entrepreneurs to minimize risks through partner verification, legal analysis, and media monitoring.

We are now looking for a dynamic and innovative manager for the Product Owner role. This position will be responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for our international B2B IT product, which integrates information and analytical tools to streamline relationships between various information flows.

Main Purpose of the Position: The Product Owner will be accountable for strategic product development, forming product hypotheses, and managing priorities and tasks for their implementation.

Responsibilities and Main Functional Duties

Formulating Product Hypothesis:

• Identifying directions for product development through continuous market analysis received from the Growth Department and internal data analytics on user experience.
• Creating, testing, and validating hypotheses for launching new features or enhancing existing ones.
• Conducting customer development interviews with Clients for a deep understanding of the target audience’s needs.

Development and Validation of Prototypes:

• Managing the prototyping process, testing user experience, and coordinating functional requirements with developers
• Quality control of prototypes and their compliance with business hypotheses

Prioritization and Task Management:

• Prioritizing tasks according to the company’s business goals in line with the Product roadmap.

Monitoring, Control, and Support for Task Relevance in the Following Areas:

• Defining business hypotheses and new functional capabilities.
• Enhancing the product through updating existing features.
• Working with product funnels to support sales and marketing activities.
• Bug fixes and technical support for components.
• Engaging new data sources and integrating them into the product.
• Processing and prioritizing requests.

Understanding the Target Audience:

• In-depth analysis of the needs and pains of the target audience, customer portraits in the legal and accounting sectors. Continual support for the Current Customer Portrait.
• Ongoing interaction with Sales/Support/Marketing departments to refine priorities based on user feedback.

Monitoring Key Metrics:

• Defining and analyzing KPIs to track product effectiveness.
• Assessing the success of implemented features, analyzing sales funnels, user satisfaction, customer retention, and market position.

Communication and Collaboration with Teams:

• Close collaboration with the IT Department (developers), designers, Growth Department analysts, Marketing Department, and Sales/Support Department following the Product Development Lifecycle process.
• Continuous updates to stakeholders about project status, results, and next steps.

Formulating Technical Documentation and Product Concept:

• Defining technical requirements, specifications, and product architecture.
• Documenting business logic and integration.
• Setting tasks for related teams (marketing, sales, support, dev, analytics) according to the Task Setting Process to obtain prototypes and Formulating User Stories:
• Developing user stories for transmission to the IT department.
• Including details such as requirements, goals, acceptance criteria, and context.

Working with Information Sources:

• Making decisions to improve the product based on a report from the Product Analyst on existing data sources, searching for new sources, and integrating them to create the most current and valuable features in the product based on product analytics.

Project Management and Collaboration:

• Ongoing communication and alignment between Marketing, Sales, Support, Analytics, Legal Department, and Information Directorate to ensure the Product Development Lifecycle.
• Coordination of goals, tasks, and priorities among all teams for maximum product work efficiency. Forming an action plan/agenda for teams and working groups.

Position Requirements:

Professional Experience:

• 3+ years of experience as Product Owner or Product Manager
• English language proficiency: upper-intermediate or advanced level
• Experience with software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in validating product hypotheses, forming product development strategies, and implementing new features
• Ability to create, test, evaluate, and adapt product hypotheses

Technical Skills:

• High level of analytical thinking: ability to recognize and evaluate market trends, analyze user needs and feature effectiveness
• Experience with analytical tools (e.g., Google Analytics, Tableau, Power BI) and ability to interpret KPIs
• Experience in creating/changing/implementing product metrics and understanding their cause-and-effect relationships
• Setting up product metrics for product functional solutions
• Ability to measure product success and its impact on business goals
• Experience in creating prototypes, user interfaces, and validating new features
• Basic knowledge of API principles, new data integration, and working with information sources

Research & Documentation:

• Ability to structure and organize research groups, focus groups, usability testing, and other types of interviews and surveys
• Ability to create technical documentation including technical requirements, specifications, business logic, integration documentation, and product concept
• Basic experience in accounting/legal spheres

Leadership & Organization:

• Ability to organize working groups for decision-making and ensuring product goals at all stages of Product Development Lifecycle

Personal Qualities:

• Proactive position
• Critical thinking: ability to analyze information, draw conclusions, and make informed decisions
• Results-oriented: focus on achieving positive outcomes
• Flexibility: ability to adapt to changes, quickly respond to new challenges, and find effective solutions
• Responsibility: take on tasks and bear 100% responsibility for their implementation
• Empathy

If you are ready for new challenges and impressive results — we look forward to receiving your resume!

About the company:

LIGA ZAKON is a Ukrainian IT company specializing in developing information and analytical products. With 30 years of experience and strong expertise in big data processing, we uphold high customer service standards of customer service.

Our flagship product is a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses, private entrepreneurs, and government agencies streamline operations through effective information and analytical support systems.

The primary goal of our product is to reduce business risks for our clients by providing services related to the due diligence of partners, customers, and counterparties, ensuring legal compliance, and analyzing court decisions. Additionally, we offer media and social media monitoring.

Our platform aggregates information from various sources, including registries, legislation, court decisions, media and social networks, sanctions lists, journalistic investigations, and databases of documents and contracts from multiple countries. It also includes features tailored to meet the specific needs of users in different countries, such as an analytical system for legislation, tools for analyzing and forecasting court decisions, and systems for checking companies and individuals, as well as their connections both domestically and internationally. Furthermore, it encompasses a system for managing corporate documents and contracts.

At the core of our platform is its unique information-processing capability, which creates significant value for our customers. The information is gathered from a wide range of open sources and databases, using various methods and technologies, while an internal Document Management System (DMS) is in development to enhance this process and link the data effectively.