Technical Product Owner

Playtika is looking for a Technical Product Owner to join our Kyiv office on a full-time basis.

Playtika Holding Corp. is a leading mobile gaming company and monetization platform with over 35 million monthly active users across a portfolio of games titles. Founded in 2010, Playtika was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and guided by a mission to entertain the world through infinite ways to play, Playtika has over 3,700 employees in 19 offices worldwide including Tel-Aviv, London, Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki, Montreal, Chicago, Las Vegas, Santa Monica, Newport Beach, Sydney, Kyiv, Bucharest, Minsk, Dnipro, and Vinnytsia.

Responsibilities:

This role’s responsibility is to define and deliver Playtika's gaming platform infrastructure and services and:

• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to create prioritized valuable backlog
• Work closely with development teams before and during the sprints to ensure that they understand the vision of the product and are designing great effective solutions
• Synchronize with other PO's across the organization to provide successful deliveries
• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
• Promote continuous improvement

Requirements:

• 3+ years Product Owner experience with agile methodologies (Scrum strongly desired)
• Lead product development and release process for technical epics and maintain the core development road map
• Coordinate the collection, description, analysis, and prioritization of requests for technical improvements from stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies, and tools
• Experience in writing Technical Design Documents or Technical Requirements
• Experience writing user stories, grooming product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements
• Good understanding of business goals and priorities
• Technical knowledge and experience (client-server architecture, database)
• Strong communication and leadership skills
• Exceedingly detailed oriented with superb writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Good level of spoken and written English

Nice to have:

• Previous experience in the game industry
• Being a team player, making decisions based on facts and metrics
• Collaborative Working - setting goals equally important for all involved members
• Analytical Skills - someone who can find holistic solutions for a variety

We offer all our employees:

• Competitive salary, performance-based bonuses, and flexible working hours
• Social package, including gym membership compensation, medical insurance with dental coverage
• Training programs, certifications, conferences including international events
• Annual salary review
• 20 working days paid vacation and sick leave
• Corporate celebrations, team buildings, and fun activities
• Free meals twice a day, refreshments
• Technical library with option to order books
• Coaching and reviews to support your career development
• Help and support for candidates from other cities
• Possibility to attend local and international professional training and conferences at the company's expense
• Amazing and huge corporate events like this one here
• Working for one of the top social gaming companies in the world
• By the way, you can feel us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter