Product Owner

Join Us At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact. What you’ll do The Product Owner’s mission is to define, lead and deliver strategic technology initiatives that enable scalable, reliable and future-ready capabilities. The role owns and maintains the Technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with Vodafone Group direction, local business priorities and cross-functional teams. The role will also lead initiatives across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), technical upgrades, EOSL and compliance, platform evolution and architecture consistency, ensuring that technology delivery supports both business value and long-term engineering excellence. More specifically, you will: Own the end-to-end delivery of strategic technology enablers used by internal teams. Define, maintain and communicate the Technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with Vodafone Group direction, local market priorities and architecture principles. Lead SDLC-related initiatives, including process improvements, technical standards, delivery governance and continuous improvement of engineering practices. Drive technical upgrades and cloudification initiatives, Cyber vulnerabilities and risk mitigation actions, platform evolution and modernization initiatives, ensuring readiness, continuity and minimal business disruption. Work closely with Solution Architects and engineering teams to assess technical feasibility, define implementation options and safeguard architecture consistency. Prioritize technology initiatives based on business value, technical risk, dependency management and delivery impact. Coordinate with rest Product Owners, Engineering Managers and business stakeholders to plan releases, manage expectations and ensure timely delivery of new capabilities. Who you are MSc or BSc in Computer Science, Information Systems Experience in developing and delivering large enterprise projects (upgrades, transformation etc) and proven track record for applications launched Strong experience with software delivery frameworks, SDLC governance, technical planning and cross-functional ways of working is strongly preferred Experience working with internal and external business partners, driving and completing concurrent projects on time and within budget Proven ability to read a business document and translate it into low level technical requirements. Strong communication and logical reasoning skills. JIRA/Confluence, MS Project, or equivalent experience preferred Strong stakeholder management, facilitation and organization skills Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with both technical and business audiences Excellent analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills, with high levels of creativity Customer centricity and data driven decisioning Self – motivated & trong time-management skills Not a perfect fit? Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity. What's in it for you Award-winning work environment -certified #1 Top Employer in Greece Competitive pay, bonus & remuneration package Private Health & Medical Insurance Hybrid way of working: a blend of remote and office-based working, including the option to work from abroad Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual orientation or length of service Spirit of Vodafone Day: one day each quarter dedicated to your personal development Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking Special employee offers and discounts Who we are We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same. Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance. Together we can.