Product Owner

The Senior Product Owner represents both business stakeholders and end-customers, understanding their expectations, preferences, and pain points. The Product Owner is responsible for the product vision, roadmap, value delivery, and prioritization of product squads to ensure a stable run and effective implementation of changes that contribute to the organization's digital strategy.

Primary Tasks and responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of business objectives, processes, and customer needs to guide product prioritization and improvements.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and customers, ensuring continuous alignment and clear communication.
• Lead product strategy, lifecycle management, and long-term planning.
• Monitor business, market, and technology trends to keep the strategy relevant and propose innovative solutions.
• Create product roadmaps and release plans aligned with customer expectations and business goals.
• Translate business and end-user needs into actionable product and technical requirements.
• Manage and maintain the Product Backlog, ensuring clear prioritization and readiness before each Sprint.
• Work closely with development teams to support understanding, scoping, planning, and delivering functionalities.
• Oversee quality assurance to ensure delivered features meet the intended design and customer expectations.
• Manage delivery follow-up, production validation, incident resolution, and Product Pack Log Management.
• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies; escalate and resolve obstacles proactively.
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security, financial, and organizational standards.
• Continuously monitor product performance and initiate improvement actions when needed.
• Optimize resource use, ensuring focus on initiatives with the highest business value.
• Support agile ceremonies, clarify requirements, and help squads understand priorities.
• Make arbitration decisions regarding feature scope and delivery priorities.
• Manage product budget, cost control, and investment decisions with a ROI-driven approach.

• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Very good understanding of SOA, APIs, API Management, Microservices, REST, and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to break down complex technical information for diverse audiences.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure components (on-prem & cloud) is a plus.

Non-Technical profile requirements

• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills with diverse and matrix-structured stakeholders and customers.

• Ability to surface, prioritize, and balance multiple stakeholder priorities.

• Strong project management skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

• Knowledge of the Agile way of working (POs, Squads, Ceremonies, Agile Mindset, …).

• Expertise in strategic thinking and strong business acumen. Methodology/Certification requirements

• Master Degree in Computer Science OR equivalent through experience.

• Very good coaching & training skills