Senior Product Owner

Job Title

Senior Product Owner

Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland - Hybrid (2 days per week in Office)

Purpose and Importance of Position

Operates under the direction of the Director of Application Development. Collaborates effectively with Technologists, Managers, and Principals to define and deliver high-quality products and services for RiverStone’s business. Assumes ownership of the product backlog for one or more products across multiple workstreams. Responsible for establishing strong partnerships with business stakeholders to identify, plan, and execute strategic product roadmaps and visions.

Essential Functions

This central role within RiverStone IT requires partnership with RiverStone Business to build out product roadmap(s), agree priorities with key stakeholders and drive the agile engagement of the implementation team(s).

Duties Include

• Responsible for product management, including responsibility for shaping product vision and developing strategic roadmaps (epics), authoring and maintaining Product Backlogs, and translating features into actionable user stories.
• Familiar with AI concepts and able to effectively shorten product design and development with effective use of AI tools.
• Facilitate and lead collaborative sessions such as whiteboarding workshops to uncover and clarify business processes, requirements, expectations, and priorities.
• Maintain Sprint Backlogs and fulfil the responsibilities of a Scrum Product Owner within an agile delivery framework.
• Work with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to refine and prioritise product backlogs ahead of quarterly planning cycles.
• Identify, monitor, and manage cross-team dependencies to ensure timely and efficient delivery of product commitments.
• Partner with development teams to ensure agreed commitments are achieved and delivered to specification.
• Organise and present sprint and quarterly demonstrations of completed features to stakeholders.
• Work closely with key business partners, including Business Stakeholders, Directors, and Managers, to escalate issues, manage external dependencies, and provide clear visibility of backlog progress.
• Promote and encourage best Agile practices across teams, setting standards, and coaching other areas as required (including Program Backlog prioritisation, Quarterly Planning, User Story creation, Sprint Planning, Backlog management, Demos, and Retrospectives).

Required Skills

• Recognized Product Owner certification (or similar).
• Must possess excellent communication skills as well as exceptional analytical and time management capabilities.
• Can naturally build a firm business understanding in a complex domain.
• Lead workshops, questioning and proactive investigation.
• Proven ability to negotiate with and manage stakeholders up to and including C‑suite.
• Proven learning skills, blending instructor led, self‑taught, online, conferences, books etc.
• Demonstrable skills in problem solving and process solutioning.
• Experience in supporting team through estimating / sizing and mapping this to achievable Business commitments.
• Adept at working both individually and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Fully understand and able to explain the technical architecture supporting own product.
• Customer service oriented with the ability for developing long lasting relationships with internal and external business partners.
• Full grasp for the technical solution, including dependencies.
• Although not a coder, be able to understand technical implementation of products.
• Basic SQL skills.

Organizational

• Develops creative ideas and solutions to business problems and/or business opportunities; takes reasonable, calculated risks even if failure is possible.
• Empowered to continuously improve RiverStone’s business processes/ systems and proactively surface ideas and solutions.
• Consistently delivers excellent customer service to both internal and external business partners.
• Demonstrates alignment with RiverStone’s Commitments.
• Prioritises and organizes work in self‑directed manner.
• Attains and maintains knowledge of assigned department.
• Performs other duties as required, including supporting and coordinating with other department colleagues.
• Creates and tracks cost forecasts vs actuals for both services and people.

Experience

• Product Owner of an owned application or product.
• Track record of leading workshops and elicit requirements thought discovery sessions.
• 5+ years of working within a pure Agile team.
• 5+ years of building team sprint backlogs in collaboration while impacting a larger program.
• Has managed multiple product backlogs concurrently.
• Worked directly with senior business stakeholders.
• Catalyst to drive business direction, business process and organise into a program level backlog.
• Hands on technical experience with firm grasp of technologies utilised within the team.

Full understanding of project management methodologies, in particular SCRUM.

Required Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Education Or Certification

Bachelors or Masters.

Supervisory Role

Minimal, but with experience of mentoring junior team members.

Travel

Minimal to none, based upon business needs with occasional trip onsite Manchester / NH visits.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

This position operates in a professional, collaborative environment and must have the ability to timely produce thorough, accurate work with many competing demands, deadlines, and distractions. The position uses standard equipment such as phones, computers, copiers/printers and filing cabinets. Noise level is moderate.

Other Duties (Disclaimer Statement)

RiverStone retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as needed, or other duties or responsibilities may change or be assigned as needed.

Core Competencies

• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyses both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Problem Solving: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
• Process Management: Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organise people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.
• Sizing Up People: Is a good judge of talent; after reasonable exposure, can articulate the strengths and limitations of people inside or outside the organization; can accurately project what people are likely to do across a variety of situations.
• Ethics and Values: Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

RiverStone Resources, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, LGBTQ+, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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