IMEO Product Owner – Science Projects

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of IMEO’s data products by defining and prioritizing product requirements, managing the product backlog, and collaborating with science and digital products stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality high-value solutions that meet user needs. The role involves coordinating between science and digital teams to deliver methane data products that support climate action goals.

Responsibilities

• Establish interfaces between the science and digital products teams
• Map existing data products and plan future data products
• Establish coordination mechanisms between digital products team to gather baseline user requirements and expectations
• Define a delivery plan and milestones
• Translate the product vision between the science and digital products teams
• Manage and maintain the operational backlog for digital implementation
• Establish handovers from analytical outputs to digital products
• Communicate high-priority features between science and digital products teams
• Establish team ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, steering meetings, user needs assessment
• Ensure accuracy and quality during the data-to-digital conversion process
• Improve processes and introduce lightweight structures where needed
• Identify bottlenecks, risks, and dependencies and proactively address them
• Integrate lessons learned
• Summarize product status information to contribute to donor reporting and work plan development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, Business Administration, Information Systems, STEM, or a related field
• Five or more years of relevant experience
• Experience in product ownership, project management, or similar coordination roles within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams
• Experience working across technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to translate between different domains (e.g. science, data, and digital development)
• Pragmatic mindset — able to bring structure without slowing teams down
• Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills
• High attention to detail, especially around data quality and handoffs
• Experience working with data products, data platforms, or analytics teams
• Familiarity with agile or hybrid delivery environments
• Experience with backlog management tools such as Jira
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required

Skills

• Product Ownership
• Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Scrum
• Backlog Management
• Jira
• Data Quality Processes
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Data Product Development
• Analytics Collaboration
• Science and Digital Translation
• Organizational Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Hybrid Delivery Environments

Languages

English