Product Owner
On-siteDubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Summary
Act as the primary transformation partner for assigned business portfolios, including Leasing, Freehold Sales, and Asset Management, by building strong relationships with business leaders, IT teams, and consultants to maintain alignment throughout the product lifecycle. Lead requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, and process reviews to identify needs, then translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and technical designs. Own the product backlog and roadmap, manage Agile ceremonies, and coordinate User Acceptance Testing to validate solutions against approved business requirements. Review proposed solutions, workflows, and integrations to ensure compliance with cybersecurity and data governance standards while supporting delivery teams in clarifying requirements and resolving functional issues. Define and monitor KPIs for benefits realization, prepare governance reports for senior leadership, and collaborate with change management teams to support adoption and address resistance concerns.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Real Estate, or a related discipline
- 5–7 years of relevant experience in product ownership, digital transformation, business analysis, process improvement, project delivery, or enterprise solution implementation
- Experience in requirements gathering, business process analysis, user-story development, backlog management, solution validation, and User Acceptance Testing
- Experience coordinating business stakeholders, IT teams, consultants, vendors, and cross-functional project teams
- Working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies, product governance, release planning, risk management, and requirements traceability
- Functional understanding of enterprise platforms such as SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, ERP, CRM, CAFM, workflow automation, or comparable systems
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, presentation, documentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-influencing skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities, operate effectively in ambiguity, and influence stakeholders without direct authority
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Digital Transformation, Information Technology, Engineering, Real Estate, or a related discipline
- Professional certification in Product Ownership, Agile, Scrum, Business Analysis, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, or Change Management
- Experience supporting real estate transformation, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, or large-scale enterprise platform implementation
- Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, Bizagi, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, Power BI, Tableau, Microsoft Power Platform, or similar tools
- Knowledge of APIs, middleware, data governance, master data, reporting, and basic SQL concepts
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