Product Owner

Pixelmatters is a digital product studio. We’re a team of strategists, designers, and engineers creating top-quality digital products.

Our mission is to empower businesses to achieve their full potential by creating top-quality digital products, while fostering great relationships along the way. We envision a world where great user experience is the norm, not the exception, inspiring businesses and people to be at their best.

We’re looking for you — a great communicator, flexible, and autonomous Product Owner. A team player who likes to work in a fast-paced agile environment.

Client relationships are key at Pixelmatters. We have a mixed reality of product and project development in which we proudly collaborate with our clients, some of whom have internal design, development, and product teams with established processes. We embrace the challenge of building trustworthy remote relationships using the power of communication. We care about standing out by quality, having a voice, and a strategic mindset. Now, we're looking to expand the Product team. And here is where you come in...

Your role is focused on interacting with clients and teams to make great products. You're an open-minded, resilient, and self-driven individual that loves digital products. You're a persuasive, clear, and emphatic communicator that cherishes the value of proactive and open communication with our clients and collaborators. You understand the value of a good and organized working process, being flexible and able to adjust to each client's needs and reality. You're creative and organized, a strategist who seeks to have an impact.

Some of your day-to-day tasks will include active communication with our clients, managing their expectations, scope accomplishment, sharing strategic ideas to empower their businesses, and serving as a bridge to our internal teams. You'll be responsible for the scope and process specifications, and by negotiating these with our clients. You’ll also manage the backlog and elaborate strategies to tackle it with Design and Engineering teams.

Requirements

• Clear, cohesive, and proactive communicator
• Great understanding of English and Portuguese (written and spoken)
• Capability to create empathy and build trust among different stakeholders
• Experience negotiating scope, capacity, and timelines with stakeholders
• Passion for the IT industry and for Product development
• Capability of detecting problems and turning them into opportunities
• Broad understanding of web technologies and their development lifecycle
• Capability to specify small and incremental deliverables based on product requirements and vision
• Capability to discuss trade-offs that promote the highest value for the product
• Understanding of skills and strengths of teams

It would be awesome if you also have...

• Experience in Agile environments and methodologies
• Experience as a facilitator between stakeholders and delivery teams
• Flexibility in understanding products’ position in different markets, identifying potential opportunities and product gaps
• Worked with design teams and highly demanding UI projects
• Experience defining processes and strategies from the ground up based on end goals provided by clients and inputs from the team
• Track record as Product Owner/Manager working with remote teams

Benefits

• Quality-driven, inspiring and collaborative work environment
• Competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance
• We have a brand new office located at Porto’s downtown while continuing to back our “Remote as default, Office as an option” policy.