Product Owner

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About the business

Webjet Limited is a digital travel business spanning both global consumer markets (through B2C) and wholesale markets (through B2B). As Australia and New Zealand's leading online travel agency, Webjet leads the way in online travel tools and technology.  Webjet enables our customers to compare, combine and book the best domestic and international travel flight deals, hotel accommodation, holiday package deals, travel insurance and car hire worldwide.

We operate a sophisticated IT platform deployed in hybrid Azure cloud environment and are currently engaged in a series of substantial ongoing development projects.

Globally, Webjet is the world's second largest online hotel wholesaler. Our B2B travel business provides a simplified B2B solution that aims to offer the widest range of hotel inventory at the lowest prices.

About the role

Webjet strives to be at the leading edge of technology, developing solutions to meet the travel needs of our customers. We have evolved our architecture into cloud native microservices hosted on Azure.

Our product focused delivery teams that are self-contained and have end to end ownership of their product. "You build it, you ship it, you own it", is core to the Webjet way.

As a Product Owner you will be working in a small self-managed team consisting of Data Professionals, Developers, Data Analysts and Business Analysts, as well other people from across the business.

We expect you to understand the business and customer drivers for the feature you have been asked to build. You will be empowered to challenge the status quo, whether by asking 5 Whys or other methods, and come up with innovative solutions that provide value to our customers.

The Product Owner is responsible for understanding the needs of the customer, shaping product vision and delivering high quality, working software. The Product Owner is the key decision maker on priorities and works to align stakeholders at each stage of the development life cycle. 

• Prioritise development work
• Represent the "voice of the customer" and ensure the team is working on items to maximise business value
• Maintain the product backlog, including grooming 
• Develop the product road map and shape product vision
• Provide sprint goals for planning 
• Report progress and translate technical information to business stakeholders
• Collaborate with all departments to gather requirements and determine scope of work
• Release planning
• Ensure delivery of key data platforms initiatives and reports are a success
• Turn ideas into Minimum Viable Products, and release incrementally
• Work closely with the development teams for planning, retros and other agile meetings
• Giving feedback to the development team to improve processes 
• Measuring progress and value delivered to the customer
• Continually learn agile best practices and the latest technology that can be used for products

Benefits and perks

• Great Culture and Company Benefits
• Work/ Life Balance
• Close to Fawkner Park

Skills and experience

• Agile: Commercial experience in an agile environment with the ability to manage PBIs in BDD style with a strong desire to learn and develop better ways of scoping
• Simple solution to complex problems: managing effective communicative to all stakeholders at all levels
• Growth mindset: You're curious and passionate about your work and enjoy learning new things
• Not just a Product Owner: You're interested in the overall business context and creating great user experiences
• Experience in a multitude of online tools that enhance collaborative working
• Strong communication skills