Product Owner TREEO

Our vision for TREEO stems from 8 years of tree planting experience in Indonesia and Uganda where we were able to plant more than 1 million trees together with a highly ambitious team. Working towards this achievement we realised the difficulty of accurately monitoring CO2 sequestration to prove our impact. TREEO is our solution. TREEO collects monitoring data from every single tree, which creates the necessary trust and transparency for small-holder farmers to commercialise carbon removals. This empowers local communities to regenerate the Earth while generating new revenue. We will continue our mission to collectively mitigate climate change!
We have teams based in Kampala, Germany, and Indonesia. Our core development team is based in Kampala.

TREEO Technology
Our product consists of a native Android mobile app written in Kotlin, backend written in TypeScrit, NestJS running on Google Cloud, and web written in React. We use GitHub, ZenHub, Miro, LinearB, SonarCloud, Slack and Basecamp to organize our work.

Role and responsibilities
For this new position, we are looking for a hands-on product owner with an entrepreneurial mindset in Kampala, Uganda. The product owner links the development team in Kampala, Uganda with growers in tropical forests (Uganda, Indonesia) and aligns with the TREEO strategy team in Stuttgart, Germany. Reporting to the CTO, and working in close collaboration with the Operations and Carbon teams, the Product Owner will have the following responsibilities:
• Collaborating with users, customers and internal stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements
• Creating and maintaining product roadmap
• Developing user stories
• Owning the product backlog and prioritising them based on changing requirements
• Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development
Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates
Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
• Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process
• You must stay close to the dev-team in Uganda: regular on-site and strong aligned online, with regular travels to Indonesia on a regular basis

Required Background
• Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
• Professional English and good communication skills
• Good understanding of agile methodologies and Scrum
• Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar position

Preferred capabilities
• Experience building mobile applications for first time users
• Experience building offline-first applications
• International working experience
• Experience working within cross-cultural organisation and start-up environment
• You think analytically and strategically, act goal- and result-oriented, work independently and show a high level of responsibility and commitment
Your qualities include the ability to work in a team, creativity, flexibility and resilience
• With your confident appearance and your high social competence (sociability, knowledge of human nature, empathy, good verbal skills) you win the trust of your conversation partners and inspire them for the holistic approach and the vision & mission of Fairventures
• You have an affinity for social and environmental issues and identify with the ethical and ecological values of the Fairventures companies

What we offer
• An interesting and varied job with a wide range of creative opportunities
• The opportunity to work with pleasure and commitment on a meaningful and socially relevant task
• A friendly and collaborative working atmosphere in an international and interdisciplinary team
• Initial term of employment is one year but renewable
• Compensation will be commensurate with experience
• Job related travels
• In country health insurance
• Employer retirement plan contributions
• We offer an attractive pay that is competitive in the market.
• We offer a conducive working environment.