Product Owner

EF Education First has an immediate opening for a Product Owner on the EF International Language Campuses Marketing Technology team.

As part of a multi-national team, you will work with business stakeholders (located in Zurich or globally in an EF market) to recognize business problems, identify technological or process solutions and then specify user epics and user stories that clearly define the problem and the kind of solution that is required. In your role, you will collaborate with developers, designers, solution architects and stakeholders to use, optimize and champion the agile development methodology.

The Marketing Tech team is currently working on expanding our personalization efforts for the future with a strong technology focus. Topics we are very passionate about include delivering thousands of webpages at scale, sound architecture, personalized user experiences, optimizing for performance, improving efficiency, and testing for success. As part of your daily work, you will need to look at the various requirements of the business and produce a tangible vision and roadmap for delivering the features and projects you are responsible for.

**If,**
- You are an experienced Product Owner looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to further advance your skills and career in a very dynamic working environment. You are a highly motivated individual who is passionate about using technology to solve marketing challenges.
- You enjoy collaboration and thrive in a complex environment. You have excellent communication skills and love working with customers, stakeholders, developers and designers.
- You are an Agile champion and enjoy writing user stories and refining and prioritizing the backlog. You work well in a team and others enjoy working with you. Execution and attention to detail are your super strengths.
- You are motivated by the prospect of an international career with a dynamic and forward-thinking company.

Then, we want to hear from you.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**

Along with your extraordinary innovative talent, you shall be responsible for:

- Being the Product Owner of one or more scrum teams.
- Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project.
- Collaborating with the business and the development team to understand requirements and create epics and user stories.
- Developing, maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog.
- Help define product’s vision, the roadmap and growth opportunities.
- Ensuring that development work maximizes value and is aligned with overall business and product strategy.
- Contributing to continuous improvement and innovation by making suggestions to improve work systems, processes and procedures used in terms of service, accuracy of output, responsiveness etc.
- Working with key business stakeholders to ensure successful product roll outs and releases.

**MINDSETS AND INTERPERSONAL SKILL SETS**
- You have excellent communication skills - not just spoken but also written.
- You are a team player - who is part of a successful cross-functional team.
- You have excellent organizational and time management skills.
- You own a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience, integration, and dependencies.
- You have strong attention to detail and excellent problem-solving skills.
- Most importantly, you are sensitive to cultural differences in globally spread teams.

**YOUR SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION - THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE**
- Professional degree.
- Earlier experience working as a Product Owner.
- Proven ability to manage products in a complex environment.
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences.
- Know how in Agile methods, process re-engineering.
- Have basic knowledge of how Salesforce works.
- Have an understanding of education system.
- Nice to have: previous experience in a travel or e-commerce company, Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications.

About EF Education First

At EF we believe that the world is better when people try to understand one another. Since 1965, we have helped millions of people see new places, experience new cultures, and learn new things about the world and about themselves. Our culturally immersive education programs—focused on language, travel, cultural exchange, and academics—turn dreams into international opportunities.

When you join EF, you join a multicultural and diverse community working across more than 600 schools and offices in 50 countries, all with one shared mission of opening the world through education. Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, caste, parental status, identity, experience and everything else that makes you unique.