Shiji Group provides software solutions and services for the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hotel management solutions to food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more.

Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, Shiji Group today comprises over 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands in over 31 countries, serving more than 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets.

Shiji is committed to connecting the global business of hospitality. We provide an integrated suite of technological solutions that empower hotel, retail, food, and entertainment companies to better connect with their guests.

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner (Fiscal/Legal) to be the expert within the EMEA Market of our product Shiji Enterprise Platform.

• Research country requirements in order to operate our software legally in a certain city, region or country.
• Document research findings in manner where product management and leadership can identify scope and impact of need.
• React and respond accordingly to priority and deadlines required new customers go lives in new cities, regions, or countries.
• Define and solution needs across enterprise software to cover development required touch points.
• Ensure fiscal integration team (SFE) is aligned with Shiji enterprise for coordinated development effort for on time delivery.
• Project manage on time delivery of features across enterprise software modules (Finance, Reservations, Kiosk, E-reg card, etc) in an efficient manner.
• Translate business requirements into technical stories for development execution.
• Maintain and plan backlog of stories for future sprint planning to ensure appropriate workload for development team.
• Educate and train customer facing teams on how to implement new features in order to allow a hotel to operate legally in country.
• Attend meetings, offer suggestions, ideas, and be open to learning new skills and maintain high level of domain knowledge for given area.

Key objectives:

• To act as a specialist for hotel business process definition, functional system design and requirements, use case preparation for a cloud based global hospitality solution.
• To provide key and effective development liaison in all verbal, written and systems-oriented communication in a global organisation.
• To lead theoretical and conceptual presentations, discussions and dialogue; and to provide business and practical context that enables both decision and design conclusions.
• To communicate with global representatives on all product requirements, development and customer driven needs.
• To provide deep business research and solution guidance as required by the project development phases.
• To assist in localisation, translation and other educational matters related to market readiness and the overall go-to-market strategy.

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar position in product management.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and understanding of the business.
• Analytical thinking is required to assess alternate paths and to suggest alternate paths/solutions to reach the business goals.
• Good technical and development management skills.
• Effective communicator and team player.

Nice to have:

• Experience in hotel management systems products, technology, and hospitality industry.

• An exciting job within a creative environment and the opportunity to make a real impact on the business.
• Grow your experience with web and cloud technologies in a very innovative technology environment. 
• Friendly, motivated and talented multicultural team.
• Opportunities to grow and develop with Shiji.
• Training to meet role requirements.
• Generous compensation package.