Product Owner for Connected Vehicles Solution

NESS KE, s.r.o.

Place of work
Košice
Contract type
full-time, trade licence
Start date
ASAP
Wage (gross)
2 500 EUR/monthStarting salary 2500 €, depending on skills + experience + benefits. The final offer for the selected candidate will reflect the candidate´s comprehensive assessment, skills, and past work experience.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

We are searching for a Product Owner to become a new valuable member of the team for our important European client with long-lasting history on the market. Although the company was initially established with a focus on tyre manufacturing, today holds a strong position also around tire related services, high-tech materials, or mobility experience solutions. Mobility experience is an area where Ness is supporting our client to bring high quality and innovative solutions to his customers. We would like to offer you a unique opportunity to collaborate on our joint success.

As a product owner, you will play a key role in the product management function in taking the client´s business and product strategy and turning that into robust, feasible, and competitive features that represent the best return on R&D investment for the company.

The product development lifecycle is an iterative one and the Product Owner will be involved from the initial concept through to final implementation.

Main responsibilities

• Convert product strategy and vision into deliverable requirements
• Gathering and documenting stakeholder requirements, able to understand and grasp fully the nature of a customer’s problem, background, and other key information.
• Working with R&D teams to refine requirements and feed into the agile development cycle.
• Supporting the development teams with required information and artifacts
• Updating product catalogs and product descriptions
• Working together with other product owners, user experience designers & development teams
• Provide support to other areas of the business through the implementation process
• The leadership of key product areas
• Supporting development teams with information on a daily basis
• Feature specification and planning
• Requirement capture and analysis
• Feature description

Employee perks, benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Home Office
• Extra Vacation days
• Sickness days
• 13th salary
• Relax rooms
• Multisport card
• Technical courses, Certifications
• Worldwide IT Conferences
• Commercial partners discounts
• Ness Summer club – full-day summer program for children of our employees
• Diners club credit card
• High-standard working conditions
• Geeky Fridays
• Massages

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

Requirements

Common requirements:
Strong experience of working in a product owner role
Relevant degree or equivalent
Ability to work collaboratively with a team across multiple locations
Provide excellent service to Development, Sales and Marketing teams
Work well under pressure, able to prioritize workload
Excellent time management, able to hit deadlines
Be a recognized expert on Masternaut’s core product features
Able to identify risks and issues, and provide solutions to mitigate
Ability to work outside normal hours when needed to support critical activities or deadlines
Very good level of spoken and written English


Software development experience:

Practical understanding of agile methodology (Scrum or Kanban)
Practical experience with Software Development methodologies, implementations and asset management


Must have personal attributes:

Excellent work prioritization and ability to deliver under pressure whilst multi-tasking
Flexible and adaptable
A Positive, ‘can-do’ attitude with the ability to work autonomously as required
Thorough, conscientious and honest
Logical and pragmatic problem solver
Confident to present to customers and senior company stakeholders
Personal accountability
Results-oriented
Strong attention to detail
Ability to work with peers to support knowledge share and coaching
Ability to develop strong working relationships and credibility with development teams


Must have work experience:

French language skills (advantageous)
Knowledge of the Navigation, GIS, or Telematics industries (preferable)
Experience with SaaS and web-based products
Agile software development practices (Scrum highly desirable)
Experience of working as a Product Owner
Strong analytical skills
Strong written and verbal communication
Proficient use word, excel, PowerPoint
Keen interest in technology and customer experience
Experience working with customers to understand and define customer needs

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Brief description of the company

Ness KDC was established in 2005 and is the flagship Software Delivery and Innovations Center of the Ness Digital Engineering corporation.

In the area of software engineering, it is our top-quality services, individual customer approach and ability to achieve targets which are most highly valued by our clients. Thanks to these, Ness Kosice enjoys long-term business relationships with its customers. Our teams of professionals first process and analyze client’s requirements; then, through cooperation with the client, they use the newest technology to fulfil these requirements in an “agile” environment.

Our glowing references and strong corporate background continuously attract the interest of new clients. As a result, Ness KDC is now one of the most important employers in the region with a workforce of more than 600 people.

Number of employees

500-999 employees
ID: 3941405  Posting date: 18.1.2021  Basic salary component (gross): 2 500 EUR/month