Product Owner in Wheel the World

Wheel the World is a travel tech startup making the world accessible for people with disabilities and their families.

By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which extracts, organizes, and displays at www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book places to stay, things to do, and multi-day trips with all the accessibility information they need and a specialized user experience.

The platform combines gowheeltheworld.com with the Accessibility Mapping System (AMS), our software built to collect accessibility data.

We are an international team, passionate about accessibility, startups, technology and travel. We love what we do!

We truly believe in our core values: passion, positive activism, disruptiveness, humility, and collaboration.

Here’s a cool video about our initial story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKZLXXKlro&t=15s

We are looking for a person that is a skilled product owner who has a clear vision of what the stakeholders need and want the product to become and conveys it to the rest of the Development Team. Someone who is fun and inspiring to work with and is passionate about our mission and Agile methodologies.

This role is also the main point of contact between the stakeholders of a product and the team that will take care of making it a reality; this is done by taking the inputs and requests from the stakeholders and creating Epics and High-Level User Stories as well as being the only responsible for maintaining and adding tickets and user stories to the product backlog.

The product owner prioritizes the product backlog, although the team can pick the amount of work they estimate that can be done.

You will be expected to propose ideas, as well as to be open to other’s perspectives whichever the situation.

All Wheel the World all team members are expected to speak English fluently.

You need to understand basic technological concepts like APIs, Databases, etc.

You must be able to take proactivity to the next level and find out those needs and features that the stakeholders haven't even considered they need.

You must have a clear vision of the direction and scope the product is going to take.

You must be there for the rest of the team.

This role heavily influences what direction the development of a product will take and so every decision they take must be very well meditated with the best Judgement possible

You must be able to effectively talk to and understand what the stakeholders want and interpersonal skills like empathy are necessary

You must know what ideas to keep in the example of the two stakeholders and how to solve disagreements on the team.

You have deep knowledge about Agile Methodologies, specifically in SCRUM

● You believe in our mission

● You are result-driven and resourceful

● You are autonomous and need minimum guidance, and yet you are able to follow instructions and open-minded when being mentored