Product Owner
Date: Apr 10, 2024
Location: Dhaka, BD, 1212 BD
Company: Optimizely
At Optimizely, we're on a mission to help people unlock their digital potential. We do that by reinventing how marketing and product teams work to create and optimize digital experiences across all channels. With Optimizely One, our industry-first operating system for marketers, we offer teams flexibility and choice to build their stack their way with our fully SaaS, fully decoupled, and highly composable solution.
We are proud to help more than 10,000 businesses, including H&M, PayPal, Zoom, and Toyota, enrich their customer lifetime value, increase revenue and grow their brands. Our innovation and excellence have earned us numerous recognitions as a leader by industry analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, reinforcing our role as a trailblazer in MarTech.
At our core, we believe work is about more than just numbers -- it's about the people. Our culture is dynamic and constantly evolving, shaped by every employee, their actions and their stories. With over 1500 Optimizers spread across 12 global locations, our diverse team embodies the "One Optimizely" spirit, emphasizing collaboration and continuous improvement, while fostering a culture where every voice is heard and valued.
Join us and become part of a company that's empowering people to unlock their digital potential!
Introduction
Optimizely is looking for a passionate and dynamic Product Owner to lead strategic initiatives, focusing on specific product capabilities like audience builder and mutual exclusion, as well as broader customer challenges that encompass multiple features/flows/use cases (e.g. Free Rollouts Projects). In this role, you will articulate customer problems and requirements while contributing to the improvement of product operations. Operating mostly within a single domain, you will work autonomously with one team or multiple small teams, making a significant impact on our product strategy and execution. If you're passionate about driving results and shaping innovative solutions, join us in optimizing the future of our products!
Job Responsibilities
Soft Skills:
- Effective Communication: Strong presentation skills; adept at explaining complex issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences (both verbally, e.g. in backlog refinement/planning/project kickoffs, and in writing, e.g. in PRDs, stories, design docs, etc).
- Listening and Empathy: Open-minded, actively listens, and demonstrates empathy and compassion for colleagues and customers.
Leadership Skills:
- Decision-Making: Makes informed product decisions aligned with business, technology, and customer needs.
- Strategic Vision: Understands and articulates the "what" and "why" within the broader product strategy.
- Mentorship: Guides and supports junior team members.
Process Improvement:
- Problem Solving: Identifies problems in a project or team's process, and address them with minimal help from team lead, manager or PM. For example, improve how a team tracks their committed vs. completed sprint work.
Team Collaboration:
- ADEPT Collaboration: Works effectively with ADEPT peers to ensure project success.
- Coordination: Collaborates with other Product Owners to streamline project completion, e.g. when a project overlaps another PO's area of ownership, or a new process is needed, or an existing process needs to be modified
- Cross-Functional Engagement: Builds relationships with peers in different departments (Support, Customer Success, Solutions Architects, etc.) for valuable customer insights.
- Facilitation Skills: Leads meetings by setting the agenda, leading the conversation, building consensus, and driving decision making.
Knowledge and Experience
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- Around 4-6 years of Product Managment experience
- Contributed to many shipped projects within their domain
- Has successfully led at least one shipped project within their domain
- Has successfully led an initiative to improve how we work as a product organization and cross-functionally with other teams
Why Choose Optimizely?
Our culture is the most important thing we offer. We continuously aim to provide a high-growth space, both virtually and in person, where you can do your best work and, in the process, unlock your boundless potential. We are dedicated to providing meaningful rewards and development opportunities for our employees, recognizing performance and creating a supportive working environment.
Our new, cutting-edge office space in Dhaka is a testament to our dedication to enhancing your work experience. This state-of-the-art workspace features open workstations, a fully equipped kitchen, a nap room for relaxation, a tranquil zen garden, and an entertaining area, all designed to provide you with the ideal environment to thrive and grow.
As part of our commitment to you, here are other benefits and perks you can expect:
- Best-in-class compensation plans
- Two annual festival bonuses
- Recognition and rewards programs
- Paid Maternity (4 months) & Paternity Leave (12 weeks)
- Flexible vacations days and working hours
- Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
- Comprehensive medical & life insurance for you and your dependants
- Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
- Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
- Monthly and quarterly regional and global team-building events
- Communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
- Free catered lunch every day
- An agile performance review process that encourages ongoing transparency between managers and direct reports
- Enablement program and soft skill training to support internal career growth and development
At Optimizely, our standardized language is English, and it is crucial to have good English communication skills to be successful in your global role. All our external and cross-location communication is done in US English (en-us), but internally you can speak in whichever native language you most identify with.
Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
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