Product Owner

We are looking for an Product Owner who will help our customer to maximize product value delivered by a cross-functional development team. Acting as the main link between business stakeholders (Project Manager on client side mainly) and the delivery team, translate business needs into well defined stories and a backlog, ensuring solutions align with customer needs, business objectives, and quality standards within an Agile environment.

Requirements:

Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum 2 years in PO role, or 3-5 years in similar position in Scrum environment

• Proven experience delivering complex IT/software products and projects

• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum frameworks and the full product development lifecycle

• Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams

• Ability to balance business priorities, technical constraints, and user needs

• Experience collaborating with many stakeholders

Skills

• Excellent German – MUST HAVE

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities

• Ability to clearly define and communicate product requirements and decisions

• Strong prioritization, organizational, and self-management skills

• Ability to create realistic estimates and balance sprint scope with team velocity

• Ability to keep track and manage sprint progress

• Experience creating high-quality:

  • user stories

  • acceptance criteria

  • product documentation

• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills

• Strong focus on execution, delivery, and cross-functional coordination

• Ability to work independently at the same time ensuring high level of transparency

Tools & Practices

• Hands-on experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, or Confluence

• Experience using product roadmapping tools

• Familiarity with UX principles

• Understanding of API-based systems and integrations

• Data-driven mindset

Nice to Have

• Domain experience with Climate Tech, Industrial Technology and Energy

Main responsibilities:

• Communicate, follow and understand the client's product vision, strategy, and roadmap

• Gather, analyze, and validate business and stakeholder requirements

• Translate business needs into user stories and acceptance criteria

• Align, prioritize, and continuously refine the product backlog together with the client

• Ensure backlog items are clear and ready for development

• Act as the decision-maker for scope, priorities, and trade-offs

• Collaborate with client, development teams, UX/UI, QA and Scrum Master/PM

• Manage and lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and demos

• Communicate delays and discuss fallback options with the client precisely and early

• Accept or reject completed work based on acceptance criteria

• Ensure delivered features meet business goals, user needs, and quality expectations

• Manage dependencies and mitigate delivery risks together with the client

• Support release planning and go-to-market activities when applicable

• Drive product improvements using data, feedback, and KPIs as expert and align with the client

• Drive ongoing process improvements across teams and workflows