We are recruiting an experienced product owner based in Krakow, Poland, for a  role with our client, the world’s largest events company. A hybrid role, the successful candidate will be expected to spend at least 2 days a week in our city centre office in Krakow, collaborating in-person with the team. 

You will make a key contribution to the ongoing developing a digital platform that hosts information and e-commerce functionalities serving conferences, festivals, exhibitions, and content marketing. The main goal is to develop a subset of projects around the core platform.

Responsibilities

• You will manage product refinement and support business analysis activities with the rest of the Scrum Team
• You will be responsible for extrapolating high-level requirements and translating into functional and non-functional requirements and acceptance criteria
• You will ensure refinement is completed in a timely manner ahead of sprint commencement
• You will be responsible for building out a 2-4 week refinement lead time over engineering
• You will ensure BAU and Project refinement are served responsibly and align with the product team’s priorities and expectations
• You will work with roles and teams outside of your Scrum Team e.g. Product Team, BA, Delivery Manager, Architects etc. to ensure cards are dev ready ahead of sprint commencement
• You will work with other dependency teams to support refinement where there is a clear need to do so e.g. integration with other platforms
• You will support the delivery lead in ensuring a two-sprint lead time for engineering is achieved
• You will work closely with the delivery manager to ensure sprint impediments are mitigated and the sprint goal is achieved
• You will create and chair the local team sprint showcase
• You will liaise directly with the product team (stakeholders) to ensure business requirements, vision and scope it understood
• You will liaise with other internal scrum team POs to ensure alignment, as required
• You will support the evolution of documentation and support materials for both delivery and business teams

Requirements

• You are highly analytical and can extrapolate information quickly
• You are highly communicative and are not afraid to challenge, diplomatically and proactively
• You can adapt quickly and effectively to business change
• You are passionate about product development and have a strong desire to improve products and services
• You are highly communicative and can liaise with individuals and teams of both a technical and non-technical background

KPIs

• Product refinement is 2-4 weeks ahead of engineering
• All tickets are dev ready ahead of sprint commencement (exceptions apply where applicable)
• Service delivery SLAs are met (where applicable)
• Documentation and support materials are maintained
• Sprint showcases operational

Why join the K&C team and this project?

• German IT company with HQ in Munich
• 23 years history
• Competitive compensation;
• Talented team without hierarchies
• 20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave;
• Fulltime remote work anywhere within the EU or Azerbaijan is possible; as is being based in one of our offices in Krakow or Sofia if you prefer an office environment or hybrid
• Flexible working schedule

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!