Product Owner [Armenia]

We build tech with art at the heart.

Artest is a product-focused tech company based in Yerevan. We design products, build software systems, and grow a strong quality culture — with art at the heart of everything we do.
We believe every professional should feel seen, inspired, and trusted. At Artest, we’ve created a space where ideas come to life through collaboration, passion, and precision.

We’re looking for a Product Owner to join our team in Yerevan, Armenia.

✅ Key responsibilities:

🔹 Gather Functional and non-Functional requirements, maintain and verify requirements as well.

🔹 Manage Product Backlog: formulating the list of backlog items and prioritizing them as per the critical business objectives.

🔹 Backlog Refinement: ability to prioritize, enhance, and finalize the items with the team before the sprint planning.

🔹 Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: the Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve.

🔹 Define Sprint Objectives.

🔹 Review and approve the work done by the development team: the product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification.

🔹 Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: the Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders.

🔹 Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases.

🔹 Participate in OKR planning.

✅ Requirements:

🔹 Experience: At least 3 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst).

🔹 Skills Requirements:

To execute tasks, technical understanding is required in the following areas:

- Requirements lifecycle

- Product backlog management

- Product development architecture

- Scrum and Agile development methodologies

- User experience principles

- Coding and designing (nice to have)

🔹 Communication Skills (Proficient in English).

🔹 Analytical Skills: ability to analyze various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible.

🔹 Organizational skills.

🔹 Leadership: You will lead a team (without being a manager), therefore you must be able to demonstrate effective leadership techniques.

🔹 Professional Certification: PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement.

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

🏖️ 20 vacation days
🤕 Sick leave - 6 days
👶 Paternity leave - 5 days
🏥 Private Medical insurance
🎁 Birthday, Wedding, Newborn gifts
🏋🏼‍♂️ Sport - 50% coverage
🎾 Tennis/Paddle lessons - 50% coverage
🔡 Language learning opportunities - 50% coverage
🎭 Company activities and team-building events