Product Owner

at  Zhlke

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We’re trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.
If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.
The Role
As a Product Owner, you will play a key role in bridging the product management and development teams, while maintaining alignment with other teams in a complex and innovative program within the fire detection industry.

How You’ll Make Impact

• Collaboration in the development team in a geographically distributed setting: Works closely with the embedded software development team as product owner and applies the SAFe framework at team level to support agile working methods.
• Feature Refinement: Collaboration with product managers, other product owners and development architects to refine features at the SAFe program level and prepare them for development.
• Team Backlog Management: Responsible for the refinement of the team backlog, including prioritization of user stories and bugs. Leads the moderation and coordination to ensure that all tasks are clearly defined.
• Coordination with other teams: Coordinates regularly with other development teams, HW, testing, production, sensor technology, to clarify dependencies and address potential problems at an early stage. Find the optimal balance between program and team objectives.
• PI Planning: Moderation and execution of PI Planning breakout sessions. Prioritization of features together with the product managers.

What’s Important to us

• Several years of professional experience in the role of developer or product owner
• Experience in software or firmware engineering, or experience as product owner in an Embedded projects is a plus
• Knowledge of Confluence and Jira tools
• Experience in requirements engineering and agile methods is an advantage.
• Knowledge in SAFe agile methodology is a plus
• Bachelor’s in electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science, or equivalent
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work effectively in an agile environment
• Clear and effective communication with stakeholders, team members, and customers is vital. This includes the ability to articulate the product vision, requirements, and feedback
• Team player, able to deal with diverging requirements and expectations and to mediate between the different positions of the various stakeholders

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 17 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

If you feel you don’t meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!
We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.
If you feel you don’t meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!
We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.

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