Country Product Specialist (Product Owner - Local It Solutions)
Moscow, Russia
- Gather requirements. Collected business needs from different departments. Structured them via User Story Mapping, Mind Map in Miro, As Is - To Be framework - Finance. Calculated business cases for development inquiries. Prioritized backlog based on ROI- Occam's razor. Turned down unnecessary needs, launched in development relevant ones. Had to say "No" to stakeholders- Roadmap management. Managed a portfolio of 10 local digital products. Run projects in Jira: created Epics, Stories and Tasks, set Story points and Acceptance criteria, coordinated target dates with business owners and developers. Described technical and business documentation in Confluence- Project management. Set tasks for software developers (in outsource vendors), described technical specifications and architecture. - Communication. Regular communication with global colleagues on the development of solutions (documentation, access, development approval). Also interacted with local business owners and developers- API. Researched and tested IKEA's global APIs for new data sources. From studying the documentation to requesting keys and testing APIs via Postman