Product Owner

Summary

Join Volkswagen Group Services' Volkswagen Digital:Hub in Spain as a Product Owner/Manager. Contribute to the development of VW's Data Lakehouse, working in a collaborative, agile environment. You will define product vision, strategy, and roadmaps, manage backlogs, and collaborate with engineers and business departments. The role requires significant experience in product ownership, agile methodologies, and SQL proficiency. Volkswagen offers fully remote work, flexible hours, professional development opportunities, and a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• Experience shipping successful products, including defining vision, strategy, outcome-driven product roadmaps and creating and managing backlogs
• Experience working in an Agile environment and scrum methodology
• Experience articulating and testing product hypotheses
• Demonstrated ability to influence decision making in different contexts
• Skilled at defining and prioritising product features
• Experience collaborating closely with engineers, designers, and business departments
• Proficiency in SQL
• Fluent English speaker

Responsibilities

• Work together with the business in quick wins (identify best value driven use cases), to develop the Data Lakehouse of VW (this stage also includes the team alignment, understanding & set up of the VW existing platform)
• Be a role model of agile working and innovation
• Assure the agile rituals work productively
• Prioritise the roadmap while preparing new features for development together with your agile team
• Coordinate with all the stakeholders and other development teams to deliver as much value as possible
• Present new developments to your colleagues and stakeholders, including creative ways to teach the teams about the use and functionalities of new features
• Help to create a great atmosphere and strong connection within your team
• Inspire your team as much as your stakeholders and make sure everybody is aware of the vision and roadmap
• Play your part in creating a strong feedback culture where everybody feels enabled to provide each other with honest feedback and input
• Collect requirements, perform user research and analyse market needs to create a roadmap and well prepared backlog
• Break down features into MVPs and release incrementally
• Communicate clearly the vision, roadmap and releases
• Be a strong team player and promote our culture of feedback and openness
• Be a role model of agile working and innovation
• Convince partners of your ideas, using well prepared arguments
• Understand the SQL requirements from stakeholders and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

Technical background or experience

Benefits

• Fully remote work capability, with an option to work from our office when needed
• Access to professional development tools and free language courses
• Flexible working hours to accommodate personal and professional needs
• A competitive holiday package and access to a variety of employee discounts