Product Owner

Location: Amman, Amman Governorate, Jordan

Department: Ips Solutions

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Optimiza is looking for a Product Owner with a strong UI/UX background to own the vision, backlog and user experience of [product name]. You will sit between our users, designers and engineers, turning customer needs and business goals into clear, prioritized work that ships as intuitive, well-designed features.

This role suits someone who has designed or researched user experiences before and now wants to own product outcomes end to end.

Key responsibilities

Product ownership

• Own and communicate the product vision and roadmap, aligned with business goals and user needs.
• Build, groom and prioritize the product backlog so the team always knows what matters most and why.
• Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria that cover both functionality and user experience.
• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies as Product Owner: sprint planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Act as the main point of contact for stakeholders, balancing requests and saying no when needed.
• Define success metrics (KPIs) for features and track them after release.

UI/UX leadership

• Champion the user throughout the product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery.
• Plan and run user research: interviews, usability tests, surveys and analytics reviews.
• Turn research insights into user journeys, personas and prioritized product requirements.
• Work closely with UI/UX designers on wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs, and give informed design feedback.
• Ensure consistency with the design system, accessibility standards (WCAG) and usability best practices.
• Validate designs with users before development and measure UX quality after launch.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager on digital products (web or mobile).
• 2+ years of hands-on UI/UX experience, as a designer, UX researcher or in a closely related role.
• A portfolio or case studies showing UX work and product decisions you drove.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD.
• Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum and experience with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps or Trello.
• Experience running user research and usability testing, and turning findings into action.
• Comfort with product analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Hotjar) and data-informed decisions.
• Excellent communication skills in English [and Arabic], with the ability to explain design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, Business or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), PSPO or a recognized UX certification (e.g. NN/g UX Certification).
• Experience building or maintaining a design system.
• Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks.
• Knowledge of front-end basics (HTML, CSS) to collaborate smoothly with developers.
• Experience designing for right-to-left (RTL) and multilingual interfaces.
• Background in [industry, e.g. fintech, e-commerce, SaaS].

Benefits

Annuak Salary Raise

Binus

Medical Insurance