Are you passionate about agile project management and methodologies?
Do you enjoy creating new and effective delivery processes?
Have you already been in charge of driving and defining the release of technical products?
Do you know how to lead cross-functional resources and deliver high-quality products?
And maybe you also have a solid grasp on data analytics and product strategy!
If you nodded your head with enthusiasm and thought: "Yes, that's me!", this position will sound super interesting to you. 🤩
Keep reading for more details! 📝
Become Our New Product Owner!
In this role, you will report directly to the CPO and you will contribute significantly to driving the company’s success by building a best-in-class feature roadmap for our products.
For this position, it’s essential to be perfectly fluent in English and be passionate about web performance.
You will work on these 3 products :
WP Rocket is a premium caching plugin for WordPress used by +1,400,000 websites and +120,000 customers worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. We love to make our customers’ lives easier, which is why WP Rocket applies key best web performance practices right upon activation.
Imagify our image optimisation service to make websites lighter. We have already optimized more than 2.7 Billions of images.
RocketCDN, our latest product to accelerate websites all over the world.
What You Will Be Doing:
In your everyday job as a Product Owner, you should first enjoy our products! You will organize our product release cycle.
You will also write our user stories. It’s an important part of the job as it explains to our different teams how a feature is working and its impact on our user experience. If you are curious, you can check this example of an epic card we wrote:
https://github.com/wp-media/wp-rocket/issues/3303
Here is a list describing the tasks involved in this position (do you happen to like making lists? So do we!):
- Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Consolidating data into user stories and necessary product requirements
- Collaborating with the support team, CPO, and developers to establish timeline workflows and goals
- Ensuring product aligns with company mission and goals
- Establishing competitor benchmarks
- Leading the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Understanding the market, the support, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
- Represents the customer, interfaces and engages the customer
What Do You Need To Excel at This Job:
Proven working experience in Agile project management.
You should have a solid grasp of project management, data analytics, strategy, and Agile methodologies in order to deliver high-quality products.
Communication skills.
You can communicate openly with people, and modulate your writing tone according to the channel you write for. Your communication is friendly and engaging, even when you write about very technical topics.
We are a remote company with a strong written culture.
Technical and web performance skills
We are a company focused on improving website speed with technical products.
You should have a solid understanding of web performance and excellent technical knowledge.
You understand caching. Terms like TTFB, preload, minify, Core Web Vitals, and lazyload are not foreign to you.
You are fluent in English.
You will need to be able to write and communicate in English effectively, respectfully, and professionally.
Being yourself.
Our team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. Respect, collaboration, and inclusivity are some of our core values (more on this below). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.
Positive attitude, detail, and customer-oriented.
You define yourself as a positive and proactive person. You like to experiment and also maintain your actions customer-focused.
What You Should Know About Our Company: WP Media
Founded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France,
WP Media is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +35 teammates living around the world.
Do We Share the Same Values?
Mutual respect, collaboration, and inclusivity.
These are the fundamental values that support our life as a team.
Healthy balance between work and private life.
We encourage our employees to enjoy their family and their hobbies with flexible working hours and minimum vacation policy (you should take a minimum of 5 weeks per year: really, we don’t count them!).
We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.
You can organize your working day with flexible working hours. There are no time cards to stamp, only customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with!
Transparent culture.
We have a
public salary grid. Once a year, when the company does well, we
share our profits with the team in the form of bonuses.
We like to see each other in person whenever possible.
Every year, we organize a trip with the whole team and spend a week of coworking and fun activities together.
To give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico:
Now that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn. 😉
Let us know why you would like to become our Technical Product Owner and why you think you are the person we are looking for.
We can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟