Product Owner

You’ll join our Xplor Pay vertical and the team that develops a complete range of payments solutions including point-of-sale, ecommerce, mobile, in-app, recurring billing, e-invoicing, and auto-reconciliation.  Our cloud-based solutions allow for seamless, secure processing and help our customers increase revenue, so they become more profitable.

To thrive in this role, you will need to take ownership of discovery processes gathering business, customer, and system requirements, developing a deep understanding of pain points, and designing solutions to meet those needs that can then be translated to our development teams for execution and delivery. The ideal candidate will possess knowledge of the payments ecosystem, payment technology integration, and have experience with agile methodologies. Our Product Owners work with technical teams as a critical conduit in conveying business objectives, vision and expected outcomes sprint-by-sprint.

Responsibilities

• Become a recognized subject matter expert on the functions and uses of the platforms you support which span transaction processing, account maintenance, and reporting.
• Participate in the product discovery process, conduct customer research, gather insights from stakeholders, and synthesize data, applying various techniques and tools to generate and validate product ideas which are aligned to customer problems. 
• Support, drive, and socialize the product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver the right business value at the right time.
• Gather and search large technical/business documents and data sets to find important information that translates to requirements or supports research and troubleshooting activities.
• Create supporting materials such as workflow diagrams and wireframes to effectively communicate business objectives, concepts, requirements, and acceptance criteria to your development team, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery of solutions.
• Deliver timely, high quality, and complete requirements in the form of epics, features, and user stories. 
• Own the development backlog and prioritize effectively by balancing strategic product roadmap deliverables with incoming business and user needs, in addition to critical support items raised.
• Actively manage scrum planning activities and agile ceremonies, encouraging self-organization and management. 
• Help to set product goals, key results, and metrics (OKRs) for product success and monitor progress towards achieving them. 
• Work collaboratively with go-to-market teams in the planning and coordination of releases to ensure successful product launches. 
• Assist with continuous product planning process, working with cross-functional teams to align on product priorities, managing dependencies, and defining delivery plans. 

What would make me a good candidate?

• 5+ years of experience in product or business analysis roles at high-growth organizations, ideally with experience in the payments and/or fintech spaces
• Demonstrated success supporting product and/or development strategies, defining, documenting, developing, and launching platform capabilities and products.
• Experience working with APIs, front-end and back-end architecture, and UX, within regulated industries, adhering to legal, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Able to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and interpret data to make and explain decisions while managing multiple initiatives at different stages, prioritizing effectively, and managing time wisely to achieve objectives.
• Outstanding communication skills, with ability to manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience driving priorities and collaboration cross-functionally.

Values and Life at Xplor

Our four core values that guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

Make life simple
Build for people
Move with purpose
Create lasting communities.

If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits: 

• Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global
• Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply?

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More about us 

We're the first global platform combining SaaS with embedded payments, and tools to help businesses grow and succeed. We offer software solutions in fast-growing ‘everyday life’ verticals: Education, Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global, cloud-based payments processing platform. Xplor Technologies serves over 106,000 customers that processed over $37 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2023.

Good to know

To be considered for employment, you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) you're applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/careers. 

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