Product Owner

Arcanys

is a privately owned 300+ people company, with about 280 software engineers, QAs, PMs, BAs and designers in the Philippines.

While looking like just another technology outsourcing firm, Arcanys is at the forefront of the industry, both helping startups and mid-sized companies to scale their development team, and making meaningful financial investments in early stage startups with its Arcanys Ventures arm.

With already 25+ companies in its portfolio, and 6-8 new investments per year, there is a growing need for a

Product Owner

to help some of these companies.

What's this role about?

We are investing in tech startups that need engineering teams. Our contribution is usually a whole team of 3-4 software engineers and a few part-time people, in exchange for equity. Sometimes, the product ownership function may be weak and we need someone with extensive experience in web applications product development to take on that role.

Ultimately, you may become a "fractional" product owner working for several of our clients at the same time, and occasionally handling short term missions. Visit our portfolio at to have a sense of the companies we are helping.

We are flexible with hiring someone part-time (to start) or full-time.

What are the required skills / conditions?

Non-negotiables

• You must have extensive experience building web and mobile products for startups (in their 1st to 5th year of life). Experience with product development from large corporations is not going to be that useful in comparison. We need someone extremely agile.
• The number one set of skills we are counting on is your ability to eliminate unnecessary features, reduce scope creep and prioritize ruthlessly to ship regularly.
• Minimum of 12 years experience in product or software engineering related role, including 5 recent years as a Product Owner in a software-focused company.
• Good understanding of software development processes (agile methodologies, scrum, kanban, etc.).

Other requirements

What are the responsibilities?

As a company focused on its people's satisfaction first (and clients' in close second), we make a point to offer exciting work opportunities and foster a culture that everyone can meaningfully contribute to.

All of this wrapped into a great care for employees welfare, GreatPlaceToWork certified, Glassdoor ratings of 4.8 / 5, Clutch Ratings of 5 / 5.

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