Product Owner

at  Crewmeister

At Crewmeister, we empower small businesses to thrive in a digital world. Our aim is to create solutions for the challenges small businesses face and we’ve started with workforce management. Employers and employees can now track their time, plan shifts and manage absences in just a few simple steps no matter where they are.
We are committed to continually improving our products and adding valuable new features that will reflect our customers’ needs. To make this happen, we are looking for a dedicated Product Owner with a passion for delving deep into a product and using their knowledge together with customer feedback to accelerate our product development and take our user experience to new heights.
Tasks

After an intensive onboarding period, you will grow more in more into becoming a key driver of our product vision. Here’s what that means to us:

• You are curious and eager to understand our customers’ needs and challenges and are relentless in pursuing the best possible solution for them.
• You collaborate with the development team in order to turn product ideas into product reality. Starting with understanding requirements, through providing constant support throughout implementation, you ensure our dev team has an organized understanding of the project and the customer needs.
• You take ownership of delivered product value: you help the team create user stories and acceptance criteria, you prioritise and participate in grooming the backlog items. You make sure the team is doing valuable work.
• You use data-driven decision making to ensure organization of the product implementation, acting as the bridge between the product and development team.
• You remain up to date about open bug tickets and the issues customers and stakeholders face.
• You work closely with our current Product Owner and internal stakeholders to understand and contribute to our product roadmap.
• You own the releases of our mobile app(s).

Requirements

• You have a completed tech degree or similar.
• You have a good understanding of software development.
• You have 3-4 years of experience in a project management or product organization role.
• You have experience working with a software or SaaS product.
• You already collected first experiences working in a small business.
• You have endless curiosity about technology and understanding user needs, and are constantly pushing for better.
• You are familiar with agile values and both the Kanban and scrum methodology.
• You have experience in writing user stories and breaking down epics into useful slices.
• You are quick on your feet and have an analytical data-driven mindset.
• You bring excellent organisation skills and a great eye for detail.
• You have strong communication skills and are fluent in English. Strong knowledge of German is not required, but considered a major plus.

Benefits

What we offer

• Exciting career challenge: get in at the ground floor and grow with us to the top
• Opportunity to meaningfully impact the future of our products
• Awesome team: highly talented, hard-working, international and fun to work with
• Modern office in the Werksviertel Start-Up hub, with amazing views over the city from the 8th floor
• Flexibility - find the best WFO/WFH mix for you, even after the Covid-19 pandemic
• Options for gross salary optimisation with food vouchers, public transport tickets and more
• Free snacks and drinks: amazing coffee, cocoa and tea, weekly delivery of fruit and veggies
• Cool team activities and events, plus the opportunity to take part in soccer championships, yoga training, company-wide run and more
• Reduced fees for the gym and free tickets to museums
• Relocation support/help with visa if required
• Having a strategic investor who shares our long-term vision for winning the market

Please refer the Job description for details