Beschreibung
For a client in the energy sector we are currently looking for an Interim Head of Product Owner (m/w/d) IT Infrastructure.Start: 02.04.2024
Duration: Long term
Capacity: 50%
Location: Remote and Berlin
Remote share: At least 50%, probably more remote possible
Language: English (must), German (nice to have)
Description
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Head of Product Owner to join our international team. You will
be part of the Infrastructure Product Line team (one of 5 Product Lines), consisting of Product
Owner(s), Product Line Lead, Architects, Dev and QA engineers and Scrum Master.
As Head of Product Owner for the Infrastructure Product Line, you will be responsible for:
• Defining and evolving the capabilities and feature set of a private cloud infrastructure in
alignment with customer needs and business objectives. Ensuring the timely delivery of
product management deliverables, including roadmaps, customer use cases, and product
backlogs to support the Infrastructure Product Line to deliver a highly reliable, scalable, and
secure environment for Platform services such as managed Kubernetes and managed data
services.
• Providing leadership and direction to Product Owners in the Infrastructure team across
compute, storage, and networking domains to ensure the successful delivery of infrastructure
services, including but not limited to IaaS APIs, block/object storage, DNS, and certificate
management.
In this position, you will work very closely with:
o Platform Product Managers to ensure that the direction of your infrastructure products are in
alignment with overall Platform goals and direction.
o Infrastructure Product Line architects and engineers to provide them with direction and guidance on
“What” to build, in what priority.
o Infrastructure Product Line Lead to achieve clear communication and alignment on Infrastructure
Product Line goals, timelines, and deliverables.
o Your peer Product Owners from other Product Lines to identify and resolve dependencies
between your products and products in other Product Lines.
Must-Have-Skills:
• Experience in a leadership position managing a team of Product Owners/Product Managers
• Demonstrable experience in creating Product Management artifacts (Roadmap, Product Specifications, Feature Backlogs, Product Descriptions etc.) in the voice of users/customers.
• Broad familiarity with cloud-native technologies, specifically with Kubernetes
• Good technical background and understanding of infrastructure technologies underpinning an onpremise/ private cloud as noted under “Profile Requirements”.
• Excellent English writing skills (at least C1)
• Fluent English verbal skills to succinctly communicate your point of view to an international team.
Nice to have skills:
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, SAFE, JIRA, Confluence).
• Experience working with Jira and Wiki Tools like Confluence
• Optional: Fluent German in speech and writing (at least B2)
In this position, you will be responsible for:
• Writing and reviewing Product Management “artifacts” for all products in the Infrastructure Product
Line and keeping them up to date. Product Management artifacts include, but not limited to:
o Product Roadmap
o Product Specification (use cases and user journeys)
o Prioritized Feature backlogs
• Ensuring timely delivery of Product Management deliverables while adhering to the highest quality
standards
• Engaging with Platform leadership team to communicate the overall Infrastructure products value proposition, roadmap, and progress status of your products.
• Engaging with your peer Product Owners to understand their needs and wants from Infrastructure products and reflect those in the Product Management documents stated above.
• Identifying and documenting gaps in Infrastructure product offerings and be a “voice of the customer” to document and prioritize requirements to fill those gaps.