IT Product Owner (m/w/x)

Summary

IONITY develops digital products that power the e-mobility ecosystem. The IT Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by an agile backend team within an Agile Release Train, translating features into technical user stories, prioritizing the product backlog, and coordinating delivery, stakeholders, dependencies, and production issues.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, clarify, and assess stakeholder needs and requests, making transparent trade-offs based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies
• Align priorities, requirements, scope boundaries, assumptions, and decisions with relevant business and technical stakeholders
• Strongly influence the evolution of your domain and its technical roadmap
• Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, structuring it into incremental releases
• Translate product features into detailed technical user stories for backend services and domain logic
• Define functional and non-functional acceptance criteria and ensure testability
• Coordinate with other Product Owners to identify integration points across domains and ensure product and release coherence
• Provide transparency on scope, priorities, status, risks, and dependencies
• Actively contribute to relevant Scrum and SAFe events by clarifying priorities and requirements, enabling timely decisions, and ensuring a shared understanding of intended outcomes
• Track progress and coordinate the prioritization and resolution of production issues

Skills

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar relevant field
• 2–5 years of professional experience as IT Product Owner working with agile development teams
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to provide clear product direction and align a cross-functional development team around shared goals and priorities
• Analytical skills combined with a creative, solution-oriented mindset
• Solid understanding of SAFe (team and program level), including ART ceremonies and PI planning
• Sound knowledge of backend development, APIs, and domain-driven system design
• Proven experience in requirements analysis, story slicing, and prioritization
• Quality mindset (“shift left”: considering testability, NFRs, DoR/DoD from the start)
• Very good communication skills in English
• Motivated to familiarize yourself with new topics
• Genuine interest in the e-mobility industry
• German is a plus

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar relevant field
• 2–5 years of professional experience as IT Product Owner working with agile development teams
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align business and technical stakeholders
• Ability to provide clear product direction and align a cross-functional development team around shared goals and priorities
• Analytical skills combined with a creative, solution-oriented mindset
• Solid understanding of SAFe (team and program level), including ART ceremonies and PI planning
• Sound knowledge of backend development, APIs, and domain-driven system design
• Proven experience in requirements analysis, story slicing, and prioritization
• Quality mindset (“shift left”: considering testability, NFRs, DoR/DoD from the start)
• Very good communication skills in English
• Motivated to familiarize yourself with new topics
• Genuine interest in the e-mobility industry

Nice to Haves

• German is a plus