Technical Product Owner (All genders)

Join our global team of experts

At Diconium, you will work on projects that connect software, data, AI, and human expertise to create digital products, services, and operating models that deliver measurable business impact. Together with 2,500 experts across our international teams, you will help build, run, and scale intelligence across the full value chain.

In everything we do, we prioritize people and genuine human connections, ensuring a supportive and inclusive work environment. Our hybrid workplace also provides a high degree of flexibility.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Shape and contribute to the product strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, business objectives, and market needs.
• Articulate and communicate the product vision effectively to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, fostering a shared understanding of and commitment to the product’s direction.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and pain points.
• Apply strong product discovery skills to identify customer problems, needs, and opportunities.
• Make value-driven decisions based on customer value and business impact.
• Maintain an outcome-oriented mindset when defining product priorities and direction.
• Identify product opportunities and risks and initiate appropriate actions.
• Embody Agile methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.
• Lead Agile ceremonies to drive product development.
• Translate the product roadmap into actionable product features and user stories, ensuring that the backlog is well defined and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Create, refine, and prioritize the Product Backlog.
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Break down epics into manageable increments.
• Balance business priorities, customer needs, and technical feasibility when prioritizing the Product Backlog.
• Manage dependencies and trade-offs across products, teams, and technical components.
• Support release planning and scope management.
• Continuously align iterations and the product direction with business objectives, ensuring that the product delivers business value and meets market demands.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Balance competing priorities and interests.
• Manage stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Facilitate alignment across teams.
• Resolve conflicts constructively.
• Act as the go-to person for business and technical questions and decisions within the team and for other stakeholders.
• Provide lateral leadership to large, cross-functional teams.
• Make decisions under uncertainty.
• Drive alignment and focus across the product and the teams involved.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the product and its outcomes.

WHAT YOU BRING ALONG

• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or a similar role, with a strong focus on backlog management, product vision, and the definition of business and technical requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to derive insights from complex information and translate them into product requirements.
• Experience developing and maintaining product roadmaps, writing product requirements documents, and working in an Agile development environment.
• Strong expertise in Agile methodologies and frameworks, particularly Scrum and SAFe.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence in day-to-day work and participating in relevant processes such as PI Planning.
• Strong product discovery skills and the ability to identify customer needs, pain points, and opportunities.
• An outcome-oriented mindset, with the ability to prioritize based on business impact and customer value.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to build relationships, manage expectations, and balance competing priorities.
• Strong active listening, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• The ability to provide and receive constructive feedback.
• The ability to facilitate alignment across teams and resolve conflicts constructively.
• A strong technical understanding of Azure, Databricks, Kafka, and Azure Service Bus.
• A good understanding of APIs, integrations, and system dependencies.
• The ability to provide lateral leadership to large, cross-functional teams.
• The ability to make decisions under uncertainty and drive alignment and focus.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Empathy and the ability to understand different customer, stakeholder, and team perspectives.
• Resilience and the ability to remain focused in challenging situations.
• Adaptability in complex and changing environments.
• Structured thinking and a proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues.
• Intercultural competence and the ability to work effectively with international and cross-functional teams.

NICE TO HAVE

• German language skills.
  

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER

Discover new skills and improve your strengths, adapt your working day to your personal lifestyle, celebrate community, sustainability and diversity. And sweeten your working life with awesome perks and benefits!

Professional & Personal Growth: Develop yourself both professionally and personally through training programs, free language courses, competence centers and an active tech community.

Flexible Work-Life Balance: Benefit from hybrid work, workation, flexible hours, parental support and sabbaticals.

Embrace Diversity & Sustainability: Engage in our Sustainability Hub, diverse communities, Diversity Taskforce and after-work activities.

Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy public transport tickets, job bikes, access to exclusive Volkswagen employee conditions when leasing or purchasing a vehicle, health offers, supplementary insurances, a pension plan and various discounts.

WHAT WE VALUE

At Diconium, we value and recognize the unique perspectives and experiences of each individual. With this in mind, we welcome and cherish every single application equally. At the same time, we stand up against any type of discrimination and harassment based on gender, age, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, origin, disability, gender identity and other protected characteristics.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Your contact person is

HYBRID WORKPLACE

Welcome to the hybrid workplace.

At Diconium, you do your thing. At your own pace. Independent of time and place. Equipped with lots of flexibility, personal responsibility and a powerful tech stack.

SUCCESS STORIES

We have been successfully implementing B2C and B2B solutions for over 30 years. Here are a few examples.

VALUES

In a modern and flexible working environment, we live our 4 core values:

#Courage
We take risks. Even if that means making mistakes. At the end of the day, that's when we learn the most.

#Mindfulness
We value diversity. And: we trust and support each other.

#Impact
Your work matters. You'll have the freedom to make decisions, drive change, and see the real-world impact of your ideas.

#Collaboration
Winning is a team effort. We team up, share knowledge, and celebrate our successes together.

DATA PROTECTION

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