Principal Product Architect

São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil

Who We Are

In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS International company, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as the NBA, Capital One, HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients. 

Location and Flexibility

This is a hybrid role, which we’ve termed Work from Near (WFN). You’ll work on-site from either our São Paulo or Porto Alegre office at least three days a week and have the flexibility to work remotely for two days a week. Our WFN culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.

The Opportunity

As a Principal Product Architect, you’ll play a central role in defining and delivering world-class products. The Product Architect uncovers the “why” and works closely with engineering teams to successfully bring our partner’s visions to life. You’ll follow products through implementation, managing requirements, and working with design, development teams, and clients to keep development aligned with product goals.

Responsibilities 

• Attend client meetings; lead discovery process; gain knowledge of our clients' businesses; lead client presentations
• Work with client and project teams to define feature sets and feature prioritization for applications that align with client strategy
• Deliver well-written user stories and functional requirements
• Collaborate with visual design team to lead a user experience design process and to document functional specifications
• Lead the definition and documentation of high-level business requirements
• Be the owner of the complete solution; define what "should be;" share that vision with internal and external teams
• Work with design and development teams to create solutions that are in line with time and budget constraints

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years experience within product ownership, UX strategy, and/or product management 
• An understanding of software development life-cycle (SDLC) and experience working in one or more software development methodologies
• Experience working closely with clients; experience leading the discovery process and client presentations
• An understanding of the topic of user experience (UX); the ability to define user flows and lead a UX design process
• Prior experience eliciting and defining requirements for web and/or mobile app projects
• Comprehension of business process and the ability to define, communicate, and document business processes
• The ability to consider, and plan for, edge cases and potential risks within a project
• Understanding of wire-framing and/or prototyping
• An understanding of web services and database architecture
• You’re an experienced technical problem solver that can adeptly figure out how to address and communicate technical or process issues between systems
• You’re inquisitive, listen well, and ask good questions to help get to the core of problems
• A curiosity, interest, and ability to adapt within many different industries, technologies, and businesses

Bonus Points

• Certified Agile ScrumMaster or Product Owner
• Has worked within a major technology consultancy firm or agency
• Extensive experience as a software developer building web-based and/or mobile applications
• Working knowledge of SQL 
• Experience with enterprise business applications (e.g. CRM, ECM, etc)
• Experience with enterprise IT applications (e.g. ESB, MDM, Data Warehousing)
• Experience with design and/or prototyping tools (e.g. Sketch, InVision, Figma, etc)

Why Poatek?

What We Offer:

• Be part of an innovative consultancy with a human-centered and culture with opportunities for ownership and professional growth
• Competitive salary and benefits package (annual bonus)
• Opportunity to work on innovative agile projects with other high-performing, passionate team members from all over the globe (international travel opportunities)
• Collaborative work environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development (including English classes, support in national and international courses,
• Flexible work hours and autonomy
• Voucher for health activities, food allowance, in-office snacks, drinks, and games
  

If you love IT as much as we do, we look forward to meeting you!

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