Product Owner

Are you passionate about uncovering new opportunities that deliver tangible business value? Do you have the expertise to bridge the gap between business and technology, driving innovation and growth?

Join our dynamic and agile team at Media Technology & IT, supporting the Red Bull Media House division "Media Brand Network" in achieving their business goals. We operate a variety of applications and services, and we need your skills to further shape our IT service landscape.

TEAM & CULTURE

In this role, you'll work effectively within a team and demonstrate outstanding interpersonal and collaboration skills. You'll show excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex problems & solutions. On top of that you'll foster entrepreneurial thinking, with the ability to identify opportunities, take initiative, and drive innovation and growth. you'll demonstrate ability to take ownership and accountability for projects and deliverables. Finally, you'll display a strong commitment to learning and thoroughly exploring new topics.

PRODUCT OWNERSHIP

On another hand, you'll take on end-to-end ownership for initiatives from the initial concept through to rollout. This means conducting market research and competitive analysis to inform build or buy decisions as well as supporting the service owner in prioritizing initiatives based on business value, user demands and technical feasibility. You'll contribute to the product backlog including writing comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria. Also, you'll act as a primary point of contact for the development team, providing clarifications and answering questions about backlog items. Overall, you'll collaborate with Media Brands to ensure successful product launches and adoptions.

USER EXPERIENCE

Ensuring the user experience, you'll be conducting user research to understand user needs, pain points and behaviours. You'll therefore, create user journey maps and service blueprints to visualize the end-to-end user experience as well as facilitate co-creation workshops with stakeholders to generate innovative ideas and solutions. You'll also develop prototypes (supported by our engineer team) and conduct usability testing to refine service designs.

SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE

Last but not least, you'll develop high-level architecture and design documents that outline the solution's structure, components, and integrations. You'll design integration strategies that ensure seamless communication between new solutions and existing systems as well as ensuring the solution architecture meets business requirements, is scalable, maintainable, and aligns with industry best practices and standards. Finally, you'll ensure implementation of observability practices, including the use of monitoring, logging, and tracing tools, to gain comprehensive insights into the health and performance of solutions.

Proven practical experience as Product Owner/Product Manager preferable for cloud-based services/solutions

University degree in Product Management, Computer Science, Technology or IT education with several years of relevant experience

Fluent in English, German is a plus

Experience in domain driven design (DDD) principles and applying its methods and tools

Experience in design thinking, requirement engineering and its methods to bridge the gap between business and our technology department

Knowledgeable of different software architectures and their impact on application design (like serverless, monoliths, microservices)

Background in software engineering to drive the design and implementation of solutions with development teams following agile methodologies throughout the entire lifecycle

Communicative team player with an analytical mind-set willing to take responsibility and drive topics

Due to legal reasons we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is EUR 2,367 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary.

As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.