Senior Product Owner

Summary

Join Matomo, a mission-driven company building a more ethical, privacy-first digital world, as a Senior Product Owner. Lead the discovery and delivery of platform enhancements, collaborating with engineers and UX to translate customer insights into effective solutions. Your success hinges on strong technical instincts, understanding of web technologies, and balancing customer focus with practical execution. You will prioritize the product backlog, translate high-level ideas into detailed specifications, and collaborate with developers for iterative delivery. Engage with the open-source community and internal support to gather feedback, and participate in customer interviews to validate solutions. Continuously improve product management practices and support marketing in release planning and product launches. This is a remote-first position with flexible hours.

Requirements

• 4–6+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar technical product-facing role, ideally in a B2B SaaS or enterprise environment
• Fluent in German and/or French, and excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong technical background with demonstrated experience in web analytics, tracking technologies, APIs, or similar web/data-centric products
• Proven ability to collaborate closely with engineering teams, refining stories, managing technical trade-offs, and delivering iterative solutions within complex codebases
• Comfortable creating initial UX wireframes/user flows, with proven ability to collaborate effectively with UX/UI professionals
• Solid experience with agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban) and comfortable working asynchronously across multiple time zones
• Located in or able to consistently overlap with Central European Time (CET)
• Available for short periodic European business travel, every one or two months

Responsibilities

• Become a recognised expert in Matomo’s capabilities, extensibility, and enterprise use cases
• Own and clearly prioritise the backlog for your product areas: the main Matomo platform, ensuring alignment with roadmap and business goals
• Translate high-level ideas into detailed, technically sound product specifications—including user flows, straw-man wireframes, and clear acceptance criteria
• Collaborate closely and daily with developers to assess implementation options, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure iterative delivery
• Engage regularly with our open-source community and internal customer support to gather feedback and qualify feature requests
• Participate actively in structured customer interviews and user-focused groups to ensure strong user validation of proposed solutions
• Break complex product goals into Quarterly Milestones and clearly scoped, sprint-ready issues
• Partner with UX engineers or external UX consultants to refine designs, ensuring solutions are intuitive, practical, and within budget/time constraints
• Support Marketing in release planning and product launches
• Continuously improve product management practices—particularly backlog hygiene, prioritisation, lean documentation, and specification clarity

Preferred Qualifications

• Educational background in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or other numerate/technical discipline
• Prior experience engaging actively with developer communities
• Familiarity with GDPR, ePrivacy, or digital compliance challenges relevant to EU-based businesses

Benefits

• Remote work (save many hours on commute, and save money)
• Budget for co-working space or work from home
• Home office equipment supplied
• Flexible hours
• 25 days of paid holidays per year plus your national public holidays
• Sick leave
• Health Insurance: Your Well-being, Our Priority
• A huge “playground” to grow your skill set
• Volunteering Day: Empower Your Impact
• Bereavement Leave for Pets: Compassion Beyond Boundaries
• Training Opportunities