Senior Product Owner

There are 2 actors on a network people and machines. Just as usernames and passwords are used by people to access machines machine identities are used by machines to identify and access each other. Venafi is the inventor of the technology that manages and protects machine identities the most important security initiative in our Global 5000 customers. We are Warriors! Are you passionate about making a positive impact and protecting the world from cybercriminals? If so you may be a natural Venafi Warrior!

How you’ll be protecting the world:

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Product Owner to join our dynamic team and drive the development of our cutting-edge products in the Machine Identity space.

The Senior Product Owner will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog ensuring that the development team delivers features that provide maximum value to our customers. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the SaaS environment excellent communication skills and a proven track record of value delivery.

As a Senior Product Owner you will contribute to delight our customers with a continuous stream of value. You are passionate about developing outstanding products with a customer obsessed approach to create the highest customer value and ROI for the business.

In this role you will:

• Translate high-level business requirements into detailed agile stories with acceptance criteria

• Define user stories acceptance criteria and ensure the development team understands the requirements

• Continuously refine and prioritize the product backlog to ensure alignment with the company's strategic goals key stakeholders and customers

• Gather and analyze feedback from stakeholders to inform product development

• Lead discovery and validation calls

• Communicate company’s strategic goals and product vision to development teams

• Create and maintain a detailed stack ranked and prioritized product backlog (Jira).

• Make decisions on scope and priorities based on stakeholder input and technical feasibility

• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning daily stand-ups sprint reviews and retrospectives

• Ensure the development process aligns with Agile best practices

• Monitor product performance and customer feedback to drive continuous improvement

• support to internal teams and customers as needed

• Understand the customer needs and pain points

The ideal Venafi Warrior will be armed with these required skills:

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner preferably in a SaaS environment serving B2B solutions

• Technical background with an understanding of software development and architecture

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision making

• Familiarity with product management tools (e.g. JIRA Confluence ProductBoard etc.)

• Customer centric approach to problem solving

• Collaborative team player and highly motivated

While you are busy protecting the world we’ve got you covered!

In addition to offering flexible and remote work arrangements Venafi offers a benefit package that is in the top 1%.  We provide access to private medical and dental insurance for team members that is 100% paid for by Venafi and subsidized at 50% of the premium for family members. We offer 25 Paid Holidays Public Holidays 4 Volunteer “pick your own community service day” sick time topped up to full pay for the first 30 days as well as 1 extra floating holiday per year.  We also provide a generous group risk benefit package which includes life insurance for insured sum of 100000 EUR temporary and permanent disability cover as well as income protection of up to 5000EUR. We also partner with Progyny to offer coverage for fertility treatments surrogacy and adoption.  All Team Members get access to wellness benefits with Multisport card and an online platform “Nivati” and receive a monthly phone stipend of 55BGN paid via payroll.

More About Venafi:

Venafi is the undisputed leader in Machine Identity Management. Why? Because we created the category and are light years ahead of anyone that would consider competing! Gartner has recognized Venafi as number one in our space and as it turns out one is NOT the loneliest number!

Venafi is the inventor of the technology that secures and protects machine identities. The Venafi platform provides visibility intelligence and automation for SSL/TLS IoT mobile cloud native Kubernetes and SSH machine identity types. Many of the largest organizations in the world use Venafi. Billions of dollars have been spent protecting usernames and passwords and almost nothing managing machine identities—organizations are just now realizing that managing and protecting machine identities is as important as managing usernames and passwords. The bad guys know this and are using stolen or forged machine identities in their cyberattacks. In fact Gartner says 50% of network attacks will use machine identities.

Come help us protect the world!

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