Product Owner

Product Owner – Product Management

Location: Remote – Flexible within or near Metro Manila, PH

Salary: PHP 750,000 – 1,050,000 per year

Travel: Occasional visits to Quezon City or Pasay offices for internal meetings

At Tribal, our vision is to empower the world of education. We create innovative software and services that drive student success. Our Product Management Team plays a key role in understanding the education sector, identifying opportunities, and delivering market-leading solutions.

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our ebs team in Manila. In this role, you will act as a bridge between our UK-based product team and Manila-based engineering team, ensuring seamless collaboration across time zones and cultures while maintaining high-quality product delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Be the primary product representative for the Manila engineering teams, providing real-time guidance and acting as the first point of contact for product-related decisions.
• Collaborate closely with UK-based product colleagues through regular sync-ups and async communication to align product vision, strategy, and requirements.
• Optimize communication and collaboration processes between UK product teams and Manila engineering teams, ensuring smooth workflows.
• Lead and actively participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, driving Agile best practices.
• Identify and remove blockers for engineering teams, ensuring efficient progress.
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation for product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Foster cultural understanding between teams to enhance communication and collaboration.
• Manage stakeholder expectations across different time zones, providing transparent progress updates.
• Assist in capacity planning and resource allocation, ensuring team efficiency and optimal workload distribution.
• Ensure product roadmap priorities are well-communicated and aligned with global strategy.

What You’ll Deliver

• Well-defined product requirements and user stories.
• Strong and effective relationships with stakeholders.
• Meaningful contributions to Market Requirement Documents.
• Clearly articulated unique value propositions of the product.
• Well-maintained product backlogs, ensuring all commitments are met.
• Continuous improvements and innovations to enhance customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Qualifications

• Essential: Strong academic or vocational background.
• Desirable: A relevant undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong customer service orientation with a focus on quality.
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to create technical and business requirement documents.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships.
• Strong organizational and planning skills, including delegation.
• Meticulous attention to detail with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Creative, forward-thinking, and solution-driven.

Experience

• Understanding of business economics and market trends.
• Experience working with Agile development teams and sprint planning.
• Strong background in developing and maintaining software roadmaps.
• Ability to interpret customer feedback and translate it into product features.
• Previous experience in education technology or student support environments is a plus.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Previous experience in a bridging role between technical and non-technical teams.
• Knowledge of Student Information Systems or similar software solutions.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.
• Scrum certification (CSPO, PSPO, or similar).