Position: Proxy Product Owner
Company: N-iX
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

The ideal candidate will drive the implementation of best practices for design, architecture, and the execution of high-performance, scalable, and optimized data solutions for internal and external stakeholders. You will be responsible for two teams and collaborate closely with our respective on-site Product Owner.

While the on-site Product Owners focuses on stakeholder management and the definition of business requirements, the roadmap, and epics, you, as a Proxy PO, focus on the technical implementation with the team. Both roles work closely together and align daily.

**Responsibilities:**
• You have a demonstrable track record as a great (Proxy) Product Owner and develop products with a passion that our internal and external customers need, regularly use, and love
• As a Proxy PO, you collaborate with our on-site Product Owners to obtain stakeholder information. The on-site Product Owner provides epics, the roadmap, and a corresponding prioritization
• You own the delivery of your development team by constantly prioritizing the user stories within your backlog against the value and defining compelling sprints
• You work in our Community of Practice (CoP) with other Product Owners as a thought leader to take our product development to the next level and share your knowledge and experience in this group through coaching, training and publications
• You collaborate closely with our Data Engineering Team to understand current-state data schemas and data models then contribute to defining future-state data schema, models and flow
• You provide input in each cycle of the development phase (develop, test, and release) to ensure we produce a ‘first-in-class’ solution, and we continually learn and evolve, adapting to changing business landscapes
• You will drive to establish a process for documenting data models, data schemas, lineages, and data dictionaries across the data stores of our project
• Provide mentorship and recommendations on the current and emerging data strategies and platform trends to our team of data engineers and scientists
 
**Requirements:**
• Experiences as a Product Owner for 3+ years (either as an individual contributor or in a consulting position)
• A proven record of taking cloud-based data solutions into production
• In-depth experience of understanding the agile software development principles and techniques
• Fluent communication in English (upper-intermediate and above)
• Proficient communication & presentation style
• Having successfully applied technical skills to solve a business problem

**Would be a plus:**
• Experience as a former software developer is an advantage
AWS, Redshift, Athena, S3, EMR, Snowflake
• E-commerce industry knowledge and experience
• Knowledge in statistics and understanding of machine learning algorithms
• Data visualization experience, exposure to the UI/UX field
• In-depth experience with SaaS platforms and integrations into core systems
• University degree in business information systems, computer science, or similar
• Communication in German

**We offer:**
• Flexible working hours
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Best hardware
• A masseur and a corporate doctor
• Healthcare & sport benefits
• An inspiring, comfy, clean and safe office

**Professional growth:**
• Challenging tasks and innovative projects
• Meetups and events for professional development
• An individual development plan
• Mentorship program

**Fun:**
• Corporate events and outstanding parties
• Exciting team buildings
• Memorable anniversary presents
• A fun zone where you can play video games, foosball, ping pong, and more.