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Scrum Product Owner with UI / UX experience (m/w/d)

Purpose:

The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing product value by defining a clear vision, shaping strategy, and managing the product backlog to guide the development team toward delivering impactful outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Collects and understands the user requirements for the product, initiates their holistic discussion, ensures the alignment with the Software strategy and identifies epics and user stories
• Consults stakeholders during their creation of the User Requirements Documents (URDs), discusses design proposals with the technical lead and the development team and provides Functional Specification Documents (FSDs). Provides effort estimates, milestones and release dates and updates the product roadmap
• Review issues and add them to the backlog. Manages, grooms, and prioritizes the product backlog in alignment with the stakeholders aiming to maximize product value
• Proposes priorities, defines sprint scope, takes implementation decisions, and monitors progress. Reviews sprints together with the team and the stakeholders.
• Promotes the product globally, especially after releases and presents the project status in Technical Reviews

Skillset

• Strong Communication: Able to mediate between stakeholders, developers, and users.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to understand and align with stakeholder needs, and effectively translate technical and business requirements to the development team
• Empathy & User Focus: Understands user needs and translates them into product decisions.
• Decisiveness: Can set priorities and stand by decisions.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills to deeply understand current challenges and identify innovative, practical solutions
• Strategic Thinking: Visionary mindset with the ability to see the big picture, align product goals with business strategy, and drive long-term value
• Business Acumen: Solid understanding of business operations and how product decisions impact organizational goals
• General Skills
• English language skills
• Worked in Scrum environment
• Experience with UI / UX experience is a plus