Product Owner

Summary

Join Accesa, a leading technology company, and work on a core banking project for a major client in the German financial sector. You will play a pivotal role in understanding and documenting business needs, bridging the gap between business and IT stakeholders, and streamlining requirements. Responsibilities include managing the product backlog, shaping the product roadmap, performing functional testing, and mentoring other Product Owners. The ideal candidate possesses 3+ years of experience in a similar role, strong business acumen, agile methodology experience, excellent communication skills, and fluency in English and German. Accesa offers a holistic benefits program focusing on physical, emotional, social wellbeing, and work-life fusion.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ of experience working in a similar role
• Very good ability to understand the business context
• Experience in applying agile methodologies
• Good communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage change and work in a dynamic environment
• Proven client facing and stakeholder management experience, manifesting focus on customer needs and business value
• Spoken and written fluency in English and German

Responsibilities

• Drive Impact -> Consistently identify, understand, and document the business needs in a core banking project with impact in multiple other banking areas
• Bridge Business and IT -> Facilitate and moderate the interactions between business and IT stakeholders while being part of a mixed team
• Streamline Requirements -> Document the functional and non-functional requirements, define the specific context, activity, and entity-relationship diagrams and accommodate different dependencies
• Leverage Expertise -> Manage and prioritize the product backlog for development: write and estimate user stories with the development team. Contribute to milestones as needed and ensure that the acceptance criteria are defined accordingly
• Strategic Shaping -> Manage the product roadmap: propose implementation roadmap to the customer, understand business objectives for the roadmap, guide stakeholders and challenge priorities
• Ensure Outstanding Quality -> Perform functional testing actions
• Nurture Knowledge -> Train, mentor, and coach other Product Owners, enabling knowledge and know-how scalability at organizational level

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Gym support
• Personalised fitness options
• Team events
• Healthy Habits Club
• Flexibility to define work-life dynamic
• Programs to invest in mental wellbeing
• Opportunities to remain connected through passions and interests