Product Owner (Fintech)

TL;DR

Product Owner (Igaming): Driving large-scale product initiatives by defining, prioritizing, and refining the product backlog to maximize value delivery. Focus on translating business goals into actionable requirements, guiding development teams, and maintaining transparent communication between stakeholders and engineers.

Location: Must be based in Lisbon, Portugal or willing to relocate

Company

hirify.global is a global company creating end-to-end tech products for clients across Fintech, iGaming, and Marketing.

What you will do

• Manage and prioritize the Product Backlog, creating, organizing, and prioritizing tasks according to key business goals.
• Define sprint goals and prepare requirements, gathering, documenting, and clarifying both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies, joining daily stand-ups and supporting sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Communicate with stakeholders, maintaining clear and open communication to secure approval on key decisions and directions.
• Refine the backlog, collaborating with the team to prepare and clarify tasks before sprint planning while improving and updating requirements.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role, with direct ownership of requirements.
• Proven experience in large-scale and complex projects involving backend and frontend development.
• Strong understanding of the full requirements lifecycle and backlog management, with hands-on experience writing user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and task definitions.
• Ability to independently clarify and elaborate requirements, turning business ideas into clear and actionable development tasks.
• Solid knowledge of API integrations, product architecture, and core technical concepts.
• English: Advanced level

Nice to have

• Experience creating and interpreting UML and BPMN diagrams.
• Experience working in Agile environments and contributing to well-structured sprint planning.

Culture & Benefits

• Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks.
• Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members).
• Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes).
• Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons.
• Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support.
• Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month.