Senior Technical Product Owner

If responsibility and initiative is your second name, and you’re constantly looking for challenges, apply for a new open job opportunity in Wirex. We’re searching for a talented Senior Technical Product Owner. With our strong team, you will build brand new technological ways to transfer value in the fintech world. That’s how your work will directly impact the future of payments.

Who we are

Wirex is based in London, with offices in Singapore, Dallas, Dublin and Atlanta. The R&D center is located in Ukraine, with hubs in Kyiv, Lviv and Wroclaw (Poland).

We are the first payment platform to seamlessly integrate digital and traditional currencies and to support multi-currency accounts, blockchain-powered cross-border transfers, and exchange services.

Our mission is to give everyone the power to use one single global platform for traditional financial and digital assets from anywhere in the world.

We have more than 4.8 ml users in 130 countries, and we’re constantly expanding. It’s an exciting time to get on board!

Responsibilities

• Drive one or more Scrum Teams as the Business Analyst for web and mobile apps development of our brand new B2C mobile and web applications.
• Creating the vision of feature development, behavior of functionality, generating ideas for enhancements of the product and new feature development. 
• Collect, define and translate business/product objectives into the technical requirements, tasks in the Backlog and distribute to development Team. Create detailed and understandable requirements, tasks, support functionality till production.
• Technical backlog preparation with developers, management of the issues lifecycle, taking part in iteration planning and leading the elaboration of tasks.
• Drive the development of applications and growth.
• Organize events related to product, meetings, meetups, managing product metrics on daily basis.  

Requirements

• 2+ years’ experience as a Business analyst/Product owner/Product analyst.
• Experience as a Business analyst with creating and launching products (web and mobile apps) as a retail banking solution, mobile or web apps in financial domain, (budgeting apps, payment products, wallets etc.) - great plus.
• Deep technical background. Understanding of what is API (other protocols), how mobile, web apps work under the hood. Examples of at least one developed mobile app as a BA is a must.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and software development methodologies. Successful experience as a BA/PO in different domains (will be a plus).
• Examples of products web or mobile (mobile is a must) launched or features delivered.
• Ability to create clear and concise requirements documentation (English writing, diagrams, UML, BPMN) Examples are welcome.
• Good understanding of Web UX and design and how conversions, KPIs depend of these.
• Strong knowledge in practices and techniques of business analysis, requirements gathering and solutions assessment.
• Excellent knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Draw.io (or similar). Good in prototyping.
• Strong attention to details, abstract mindset, strong logic skills, ability to identify corner cases and provide the solution for the product.
• Experience bringing a brand new product to market - would be a plus. Understanding and ability to identify the customer need.
• Excellent communication skills demonstrating a proactive approach at all levels with Developers, QA and Stakeholders. Ability to clearly present solution, feature with strong argumentation.
• Advanced level of English (written and verbal).

Benefits

• Semi-remote type of work with flexible business hours
• Extended medical insurance & additional Сovid 19 coverage available after one month of cooperation with Wirex R&D
• 22 business days of paid holidays a year
• Paid sick leaves, state holidays and paid days on special occasions  
• Annual bonuses in cryptocurrency  
• Sabbatical up to 3 months after more than one year of collaboration with the company 
• Fast career development  
• PE accounting and support  
• Free parking