Technical Product Owner (All genders)
Bucharest, Romania2d ago
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About the role
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 product strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market needs.
- Articulates and communicates the product vision effectively to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, fostering a shared understanding and commitment to the product’s direction.
- Embodies Agile methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices and leads Agile ceremonies to drive product development.
- Translates the product roadmap into actionable product features and user stories, ensuring that the backlog is well-defined and aligned with strategic objectives.
- Translates complex product requirements, for example from the area of "Car Analytics", into logical and comprehensible work packages.
- Balances business priorities, user needs and technical feasibility to prioritize the product backlog.
- Continuously aligns iterations and product direction with business objectives, ensuring that the product delivers business value and meets market demands.
- Manages feature dependencies and orchestrates product releases.
- Controls the quality of the resulting data products and communicates deviations and improvements to the team and other stakeholders.
- Acts as a Go-To person for business and technical questions and decisions of the team and for other stakeholders.
- Collaborate closely with data engineering, analytics, privacy, and security teams to design and implement robust solutions that can accurately link customer identifiers across various journeys and devices.
WHAT YOU BRING ALONG
Customer Focus
- Deep understanding of customer needs and pain points
- Strong product discovery skills
- Value-driven decision making
Strategic Thinking
- Align product strategy with business objectives
- Outcome-oriented mindset
- Prioritization based on business impact and customer value
- Ability to identify opportunities and risks
Agile Expertise (SAFE / Scrum)
Backlog Management
- Create, refine, and prioritize the Product Backlog
- Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria
- Break down epics into manageable increments
- Manage dependencies and trade-offs
- Support release planning and scope management
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders
- Balance competing priorities and interests
- Manage expectations effectively
- Facilitate alignment across teams
- Resolve conflicts constructively
Communication
- Communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely
- Active listening
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to provide and receive feedback
Technical Understanding
- Azure
- Databricks
- Kafka
- Service
- Bus
- Understanding of APIs, integrations, and system dependencies
Leadership & Ownership
- Lateral leadership of big teams
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Driving alignment and focus
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
Personal Attributes
- Empathy
- Resilience
- Adaptability
- Structured thinking
- Proactiveness
- Intercultural expertise
Nice to have
- Good understanding of containerization concepts and their applications, Infrastructure as Code and FinOps (budgets and cost control)
- 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.
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