Product Owner (m|f|d)

Your Role With Us

As a Product Owner, you will take on a central role between the business department, stakeholders, and the development team. You will quickly familiarize yourself with complex business processes, structure functional requirements, and ensure that viable, user-oriented, and economically sensible software solutions are created from them.
In doing so, you will keep an eye on user and business benefits, technical dependencies, and project goals, set clear priorities, and create a common understanding between business and development.
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Tasks

• You will analyze, structure, and specify functional requirements together with customers and stakeholders.
• You will question requirements, identify the underlying user and business problems, and derive suitable solution options from them.
• You will prioritize and maintain the Product Backlog, taking into account benefits, scope, effort, quality, risks, and dependencies.
• You will translate complex functional requirements into understandable and actionable tasks, user stories, and acceptance criteria for the development team.
• You will moderate workshops and coordination meetings with business departments, development, UX/UI, architecture, and other stakeholders.
• You will ensure transparency in requirements, priorities, and functional goals and incorporate relevant user and stakeholder feedback into further development.
• You will accompany refinements, sprint plannings, reviews, and functional acceptances.
• You will prepare decision-making bases, communicate goal conflicts transparently, and identify risks and dependencies early on.

Qualifications

• You have several years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, or in a comparable role in the software or digitalization environment.
• You can analyze, structure, and prepare complex functional requirements in an audience-appropriate manner.
• You evaluate user and business benefits, effort, quality, risks, and dependencies, and derive well-founded priorities and decisions from them.
• You move confidently in complex functional and technical environments and quickly familiarize yourself with new business processes.
• You have a good understanding of modern software development and confidently mediate between the business department and development.
• You communicate confidently with various stakeholders, understand user needs and economic contexts, and develop viable solutions even with differing interests.
• You have experience with agile working methods and ideally with Jira and Confluence.
• You work independently, in a structured manner, and with a high degree of self-organization.
• You have very good German language skills (at least C1 level).

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and the option to work remotely
• Development opportunities including coverage of further education costs
• Flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes
• Individual development and respectful collaboration
• Open company culture, pleasant working atmosphere & regular team events
• Long-term perspectives, company pension scheme & health insurance
• More work-life balance through a cooperation with our partner voiio
• Optional subsidy for Urban Sports membership or BVG ticket
• Utilize discounts through our partner Corporate Benefit

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