Product Owner for IoT projects (smart buildings)

About us

Siemens
We are a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. By combining the real and the digital worlds, we empower our customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Siemens Smart Infrastructure connects buildings and cities to make them smarter and more energy efficient. We help our customers to thrive, communities to progress and support sustainable development to protect our planet for the next generation. We help to create intelligent solutions and perfect places in the full range of buildings where we live, work and relax.

We are looking for a Product Owner for one of our teams creating cloud-based solutions. You will serve as the customer proxy responsible for working with Product Management and other stakeholders—including other POs—to define and prioritize stories in the team backlog.

During Iteration Planning PO is the primary source for story detail and priorities and has the responsibility of accepting the final iteration plan. You are expected to collaborate with the team to detail stories with acceptance criteria and examples in the form of acceptance tests. The PO is the only team member who can accept stories as done. This includes validating that the story meets acceptance criteria, that it has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies with its Definition of Done (DoD).

While PO is not expected to drive technological decisions, he/she is supposed to understand the scope of the upcoming enabler work and collaborate with System and Solution Architect to assist with decision-making and sequencing of the critical technological infrastructures that will host the new business functionality.

Product owner is one of the most visible team members both internally and externally. Therefore, you need to demonstrate excellent communication skills. You should be able to represent your team when needed in front of product management and other stakeholders.

Mandatory skills:
• Working experience with at least one project tracking tool (e.g. Jira, Jazz)
• Experience with working in agile environment

Optional skills:
• Education and/or certification in an agile framework (e.g. SAFe)
• Background from construction or building management (software) projects

Required education, skills and personality requirements

Required education
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

Number of years of experience
3

Personality requirements and skills
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Good analytical and problem solving skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Customer oriented
• Ability to motivate team
• Focused on goals

We offer

Training and development program (product trainings, e-learning, language courses, soft skills trainings,…)
Health program (contracted wellness providers, sport centers, salary reimbursement in case of illness)
Family care program (subsidy for newborns, maternity leave, kindergardens, summer camps)
Retention program (work anniversary, life anniversary, additional pension plan, employee loans)
Extra days-off (bridge days, sick days)
Socializing programs (teambuildings)
Referral employee program (bonus for new hire)