Product Owner Consultant (Fintech)

Location: Dublin, Ireland; hybrid work with in-person collaboration as needed. The role requires partial overlap with North American shifts.

Company

hirify.global develops wealth management applications and provides an environment focused on empowering associates to accomplish more.

What you will do

• Translate strategic product visions into actionable system requirements and coordinate requirements walkthroughs with Development and QA.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog, breaking complex features into clear user stories aligned with business value, dependencies, and stakeholder needs.
• Lead agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, demos, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Define acceptance criteria, support testing, and prepare test strategies, test cases, and test results with QA.
• Identify delivery risks, resolve ambiguous or conflicting requirements, and manage mitigation strategies.
• Review completed products with customers, maintain product documentation, monitor KPIs and user feedback, and communicate progress to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience building SaaS products in a similar role within an agile environment.
• Experience in finance, fintech, lending, banking, or related applications is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience gathering and specifying requirements and producing business requirements, functional requirements, or user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Strong written and oral communication, business writing, presentation, analytical, time management, and adaptability skills.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle models and methodologies, including waterfall and Agile, with training in system integration lifecycle methodologies.
• Testing experience, including creating business test cases and test plans.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as business, computer science, or engineering.
• Interpersonal skills in consensus-building, negotiation, and facilitation with leadership.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA, Confluence, and flowchart applications.

Culture & Benefits

• 12-month consultancy contract with the possibility of extension.
• Hybrid work with in-person meetings for learning and collaboration as needed.
• Collaborative and inclusive workplace focused on safety, respect, authenticity, and individual perspectives.