Product Owner

Product Owner at Cin7

NZ Hi-Tech Company of the Year 2023, Cin7 is a fast-growing global software company that provides solutions for modern-day product sellers. We help these sellers keep track of their inventory at scale, and help them sell their products across multiple sales channels around the world.

Cin7 is expanding very quickly with a mission to become the leading Inventory Management Software brand in the world, and we are looking for a motivated and driven individual to join the team.

How You'll Make An Impact

The Product Owner is the voice of the customer between the Product team and the Engineering team, focusing primarily on the technical feasibility of the business requirements. This role bridges the gap between business requirements and technical execution and ensures that solutions deliver intelligent, value-adding capabilities to customers and partners.

The role is a champion for the processes that we use to deliver product enhancements to our customers, with a clear focus on the Product Owner responsibilities. The Product Owner is responsible for creating plans for delivering on product strategies, prioritising development work, and actively adapting to any changes in priorities or market needs.

The Product Owner engages with the customers, product managers, user experience designers, scrum teams and multiple stakeholders to execute on product strategies.

What You'll Do

• Translate product strategy into clear, actionable requirements and an ordered backlog for engineering teams
• Own and continuously refine the product backlog, prioritizing features and enhancements to maximize customer and business value
• Partner with Product Managers and UX through discovery, prototyping, and customer validation to shape high-impact solutions
• Act as the voice of the customer for your scrum team, ensuring requirements are well-defined, understood, and aligned to outcomes
• Participate actively in sprint ceremonies, provide clarifications, review deliverables, and support user acceptance testing
• Monitor delivery progress, manage risks, and communicate status and timelines to stakeholders
• Ensure features are correctly scoped, quality-tested, documented, and ready for successful release
• Support go-to-market efforts, including internal enablement (Sales, Support, Onboarding) and launch readiness activities
• Drive continuous improvement within the scrum team to enhance quality, efficiency, and collaboration
• Contribute to a strong culture of transparency, teamwork, and cross-functional collaboration across Cin7

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience as a product Owner or similar role
• Previous software business analysis experience with SaaS-based products required
• 1-2 years working in SaaS product owner management
• Ability to quickly come up to speed with a complex industry and wide feature set
• Ability to operate calmly in fast paced and dynamic environment
• Background in Agile product development
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to analyze customer and team feedback to develop strategies and plans to deliver customer outcomes
• Ability to think critically, analytically, and practically
• Strong organizational skills
• Intermediate to Strong Generative AI literacy skills & Prompting ability
• Experience with telemetry tools such as Grafana traces and App Insights (bonus)

Why work for us?

• Hybrid Working Environment - 3 days work from home per week
• Option to work 30 days every six months fully remote from anywhere in the world
• Celebrate your birthday with a paid day off
• A Global Wellness Day celebrated companywide, providing you a dedicated holiday to focus on your own wellbeing.
• Fully paid health insurance
• Monthly Social Fridays drinks and food on us
• Discounted gym membership as well as discounts at some local eateries etc
• Recruitment referral bonus
• Relaxed dress code
• Modern office in Grafton complete with pool table, table tennis, PS5, Coffee machines etc

$120,000 - $150,000 a year

Why CIN7?

At CIN7, we make great products available to everyone. Every month, millions of sales orders flow through our platform reducing the cost, effort and time for product sellers so they can quickly get products to customers and build their brands without worrying about their operations. We pride ourselves on providing Inventory Management and Supply Chain software to help medium-large product businesses thrive in a highly competitive, digital world. CIN7 centrally manages inventory across multiple locations and channels, connecting 500+ systems to support receiving, selling and shipping stock.

We value diversity at Cin7, and bring people into the heart of everything we do. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Key skills/competency

• Product Ownership
• SaaS Product Management
• Agile Development
• Scrum Master
• Backlog Prioritization
• Generative AI Literacy
• Business Analysis
• Customer Validation
• Stakeholder Management
• User Acceptance Testing