German Speaking Product Owner

Objective of the Position
The Product Owner E-Commerce/Shop Systems is responsible for the functional further development of our shop platforms. The goal is to provide stable, user-friendly, and economically successful shop systems that optimally support our digital sales and customer processes.
The role serves as the central interface between business, IT, development teams, and external service providers.

Responsibilities

• Main TasksResponsibility for the product vision, roadmap, and backlog of the shop systems
• Gathering, evaluating, and prioritizing requirements from the business departments
• Creating epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Coordination with sales, marketing, product management, and IT
• Functional support of sprints, releases, tests, and acceptances
• Management of external service providers and development partners
• Optimization of the customer journey, usability, conversion, and performance
• Ensuring stable interfaces to ERP, PIM, CRM, Payment, and Analytics
• Transparent communication of priorities, progress, and risks

Qualifications

• Mandatory RequirementsSeveral years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst in the e-commerce environment
• Very good understanding of shop systems and digital sales processes
• Experience in agile requirements and backlog management
• Ability to translate functional requirements into actionable user stories
• Good technical understanding of interfaces and system landscapes
• Experience in collaborating with IT, business departments, and external partners
• Strong communication skills, prioritization ability, and structured way of working
• Dedicated collaboration with UI/UX Design, Marketing, Sales, IT Architecture as well as external partners, including monitoring and analysis of relevant KPIs for evaluating features and releases, taking into account security, data protection, and performance specifications.
  Desirable
• Experience with various shop systems and in-house developments
• Knowledge in B2B and/or B2C commerce
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or Azure DevOps
• Understanding of UX, web analytics, conversion optimization, and A/B testing
• Experience with ERP, PIM, CRM, or payment integrations

Personal Profile

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role in the e-commerce environment and experience in the successful implementation of digital projects.
• A completed degree in Business Informatics, Business Administration, E-Commerce, or a related field, underscoring your academic excellence
• Sound knowledge of one or various common standard shop systems, ideally supplemented by experience with the integration of SAP as an ERP system
• Proficient in using agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe) and tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• A good understanding of digital business models, high service orientation, and curiosity for new web technologies, as well as very good communication skills, strong stakeholder management
• Fluent German and English skills are a prerequisite.

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