Technical Product Owner

**Location: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany**:
**Salary: Competitive**:
**Permanent**:
**Technical Product Owner - Germany (Fully Remote) - Competitive Salary + Competitive Package + Opportunity to work with an Ambitious, Fast-Growing Organisation**

A well-respected consulting company dedicated to the telecommunications space are seeking a Technical Product Owner to join their team to elevate the value of the product, manage the client and stakeholders’ engagement, and ensure customer and end-user satisfaction.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Technical Product Owner to take that next step into a leadership position with an ambitious and growing organisation.

This Portuguese company, with a strong presence in Germany and various locations in Europe, focus on creating business value through Analytics and Cognitive solutions.

**About the Company**:
Founded at the turn of the century, this European high-tech system integrator has established a strong customer base with Enterprise-Level organisations for whom they work on large-scale digital transformation projects.

Their focus is on Telecommunications, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, and other markets’ strategic opportunities.

They serve customers in 25+ countries with a focus on adding value to their clients.

The company are a joint venture between a major, Portuguese IT company and a multinational telecommunications company.

**The company’s team is made up of experienced professionals with some of the following job functions**:

- Highly trained System Architects
- Business Analysts
- Consultants - with extensive hands-on experience in critical information systems that specialise in Digital and Cognitive technologies

**About the Technical Product Owner Vacancy**:

- Engage with demand/business stakeholders in the ideation and creation of new products and/or related services/processes.
- Develop a Strategic Roadmap for Product in order to manage and increase value and benefits.
- Assess impacts, feasibility and capabilities of technologies, products, and services to satisfy customer & stakeholder needs, managing demand expectations accordingly.
- Analyse market and customers’ needs and adapt the Product Vision.
- Prepare, moderate and rework requirements workshops, gather and refine requirements.
- Translate product roadmap features and Epics into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
- Participate in agile ceremonies serving as a liaison between product and development.
- Play an active role by mitigating issues that could impact the successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
- Contribute and support engineering teams helping team’s execution with a shared vision.
- Be accountable for tracing the product’s value achievement.
- Lead, coach, and support team members being continuously available for the engineering team questions and matters.
- Be compliant with internal procedures, policies and guidelines, and external regulations.

**Ideal Requirements for the Technical Product Owner Vacancy**:

- They are expecting to have a Senior person for this role
- Certifications: PSPO Professional Scrum Product Owner *mandatory
- Agile Scrum, SAFe Methodology experience is key
- They should have Salesforce (Vlocity) Platform, Compax, Kenan of AEM
- University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other relevant fields
- Previous working experience in a similar position within large and impactful projects
- In-depth knowledge of agile techniques, methods, tools, best practices and frameworks like SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) certification
- Proven experience in the Telco industry, its solutions and architectures
- Proficiency in English (both spoken and written) - C1+
- Fluency in German (both spoken and written) - B2+.
- Availability to travel
- Residence in Europe

**Nice to have**:

- Knowledge of Enterprise/B2B solutions and processes
- Functional and technical experience in Sales Force including SFI (Vlocity), Adobe Experience Manager, Compax, Kenan

**Personal traits**:

- Ability to adapt to different contexts, cultures, teams and customers.
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, attention to detail and curiosity.
- Teamwork and collaboration skills but also a sense of autonomy.
- Great time management.
- Motivation to work in complex challenging projects for major international customers.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong customer and team mindset.

**Recruiter: Richard Hindmarch**: