Product Owner

Simon-Kucher & Partners
Düsseldorf, Germany
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English, German

Job location

Remote
Berlin, Germany

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Software as a Service
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Scrum
Machine Learning Operations

Job description

  • Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
  • Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided
  • See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party

How you will create an impact:

  • Manage SaaS product development - define product vision, manage the product backlog, and ensure the product is viable, feasible, and desirable.
  • Use agile ways of working, coordinate team ceremonies
  • Identify and prioritize needs, opportunities, and features to align with the overall vision and business objectives.
  • Create the product roadmap, develop business cases.
  • Write lean product specs and acceptance criteria; prioritize for iterative releases and manage the product backlog to guide development efforts.
  • Work with development teams to build, test, and iterate on the product, ensuring it meets clients' needs and quality standards.
  • Collaborate with other teams when needed to solve dependencies
  • Communicate with various stakeholders to manage expectations, gather feedback, and ensure alignment with business goals.
  • Partner with AI Lab leadership and product team on trade-offs (quality vs latency vs cost), and on setting up product priorities, roadmap.
  • Manage the performance of AI-driven workflows, ensuring they align with desired outcomes and managing data inputs and outputs.
  • Navigate and address ethical considerations, such as bias in AI algorithms, and ensure responsible AI practices are followed.
  • Ensure compliance requirements (data privacy, residency, audit) are captured in backlog
  • Oversee clients' onboarding/setup, support and maintenance, Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy - product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales - based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world's leading pricing and growth specialist. simon-kucher.com

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone - our people, our clients and, of course, our business.

Requirements

Do you have experience in User research?, * Proven experience in managing end-to-end SaaS product development and operating secure multi-tenant, customer-facing SaaS products used by real users at scale

  • Strong expertise in product innovation and deep understanding of full product lifecycle; fluency in experimentation and instrumentation.
  • Deep knowledge of Agile methodologies and Scrum frameworks.
  • Product development and user research skills to understand customer needs and market dynamics.
  • Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, data science, and GenAI technologies.
  • Knowledge of DevOps/MLOps, CI/CD and model lifecycle management
  • Technical literacy to understand feasibility and discuss technical challenges with the team.
  • Strong business acumen and market analysis skills to identify opportunities and build business cases.
  • Ability to determine the feasibility, desirability, and viability of AI products.
  • Strong quant and analytical skills
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • Ethical leadership skills to navigate the complex ethical landscape of AI.
  • Strategic thinking and decision-making skills to balance innovation with product goals.
  • You are business-oriented data-centric, passionate about building products that deliver tangible value to our clients
  • Proficiency in English. German is a plus
  • Success Metrics: Outcome metrics achieved; product adoption/retention; roadmap predictability; client satisfaction.

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