Product Owner

About AME Group

AME Group is a leading provider of consulting and research services to the Metals & Mining and Coal & Consumable Fuels industries. Drawing on more than 50 years of industry expertise, we deliver bespoke consulting engagements, subscription research, and software-as-a-service products to clients globally.

About the role

As Product Owner, you will own the backlog that decides what gets built and why, across multiple parallel workstreams spanning data pipelines, machine learning, economic modelling and client-facing applications. You will be a point of entry for every request, and the person who decides what the engineering team works on next.

Key responsibilities

• Own and prioritize a backlog across the squads you serve, translating direction from the CTO and the business into sequenced work

• Write the Project Initiation Document for anything needing a go/no-go decision, and the Business Requirements Document for work spanning more than one sprint

• Own the Product Requirements Document for every piece of work: user workflows, feature list and acceptance criteria that define what "done" means

• Work with each squad's senior developer on technical specifications without making the technical decisions yourself

• Lead backlog grooming with QA and UI/UX, so every story is ready before it enters a sprint

• Lead sprint planning, confirm capacity with the Head of Engineering, and escalate competing priorities

• Attend daily standups and answer questions from any squad the same day they are raised

• Run user acceptance testing, accepting or rejecting work before it goes to sprint review

• Lead the sprint review demonstration to the CTO and business

• Work with the UI/UX designer to prototype upcoming work one to two sprints ahead

• Run regular product update sessions for internal stakeholders

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years' experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or equivalent product role

• Experience defining requirements for internal, B2B or data-heavy software products such as data pipelines, analytics platforms or workflow applications

• Experience working directly with engineering teams in an Agile or Scrum environment

• Able to manage more than one workstream at a time

• Mandarin language ability, to work directly with our cross-country engineering team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering or a related field

• Scrum Product Owner certification is an advantage, not a requirement

Skills and Experience

• Writing clear, structured requirements and acceptance criteria

• Backlog management and prioritization

• Agile and Scrum practices: sprint planning, grooming, review, retrospective

• Working with project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira or similar

• Clear, precise written and spoken English

• Genuine interest in learning commodity research, mining economics and financial modelling

• Comfortable saying no, and explaining why, when a request does not fit the priority

What We Offer

This is the first and highest-leverage hire in a newly structured technology function, with a path toward a formal Product Manager role as the team and product mature