Position: Technical Product Owner
Company: Nearshorefriends GmbH
Category: Product Manager
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

Client’s mission: inspire in a warm way and create unforgettable memories — for everyone at any time at any place! We give our best every day with over 500 colleagues.

Our client knows everything about the value of gifts. This team is passionate about creating unforgettable memories for everyone and any price!

As Germany’s largest provider of experience gifts, our client combines customers’ dreams with a unique platform, that helps thousands of people. Visiting alpacas farm? Parachute jump? Romantic dinner for two in Italy? There are no borders for a team that is passionate to enrich the lives of customers. They know what sparks squeaks, adrenaline attacks, expressions of love, and storms of enthusiasm

Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a platform that changes lives and makes people happy?

You will:
Shaping and maintaining the technical vision and roadmap of our topics in collaboration with the business peer
Collaborate with business analysts and subject-matter experts (PM) on team to transition the business requirements to technical requirements.
Manage and shape requirements with your business peer
Set Sprint Target
Creation, Maintenance and Prioritization of the Product Backlog
Prioritize tasks across our platform in sync with other technical and business product managers
Define acceptance criteria for stories & features
Set scope and priority of technical tasks in accordance with your Team & Principal Engineers
Working in a highly agile setup with several talented Platform Engineers, currently operating in Scrum / Kanban
Acting as a connection between your team and the other development teams
Remove cross team impediments
Own your product from end to end
Constantly monitoring of KPI’s & Metrics towards your product

Need to have:
Strong communication and planning skills
Good knowledge and proven experience in software development and agile methodologies
Comfortable and proven experience with working in agile frameworks like SCRUM and Kanban
Experience in coordinating complex product development cycles and software development schedules
Willingness to acquire additional system/technical knowledge as needed
Good understanding of basic development principles
At least 1 year of experience in a product owner role or technical product owner role.
4+ years’ experience in Information Technology, preferably Software development in an agile environment. (SaaS experience would be a bonus)

What we offer:
A friendly, laid-back work atmosphere with lots of after-work activities and events
Accounting, tax and annual reporting support
Medical insurance
Health/Sports compensation
Free German & English classes
Regular corporate events
Business trips & conference participation