Senior Product Owner - CTBC

ContiTech Business Hub in a key location hosting various functional teams

ONE ContiTech – The first choice for material driven solutions. Contitech Industries is part of Continental Holding. Headquartered in Hannover, Germany, the division contributes to 4B+ to the revenue. 

Are you interested in shaping the future of ContiTech together with a great team?

The Product Owner (PO) is a member of the Agile Team consisting of the Development Team, and Scrum Master.

The PO is the content authority for the delivery of the Agile Team and in this regard, the owner of the product backlog.

The PO serves as the interface of the Agile Team to all its stakeholders.at Global level and involving all the regional BA's

The Product Owner (PO) has the content authority for an Agile Team. The PO manages all stakeholders of the Agile Team and clarifies requirements until they are considered ready by the team. The PO manages and breaks down the complexity of the product developed by the Agile Team and drives the incremental deliveries. 

▪Define, refine and document product features, e.g. with the help of wireframes, user flows and design thinking workshops in collaboration with UI/UX designer

▪Prioritize the product backlog and ensure that it is visible, transparent, and clear to the Development Team

▪Define Story Acceptance Criteria and support decomposition of requirements and specifications

▪Seek exposure to relevant stakeholders to capture requirements to make data driven decisions

 

▪Drive development by collaborating with the team to derive the plan, delivery scope, estimations, iteration goals, and gaining a team commitment

▪Develop a vision and a strategy for the product

▪Coordinate content dependencies with other Agile Teams (if required)

▪Cross collaboration with other functions depending on project requirement

▪Accept stories as done including validation of the stories meeting acceptance criteria

▪Evaluate and control product quality to ensure continous improvement

▪Participate in Team demos, system demos, inspect and adapt workshops and retrospective meetings. Provide feedback for improvements

▪Responsible for the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components with the support from tech lead

▪Coordinate data protection compliance and cybersecurity of the application

▪Ensure product performance of the solution using data analytics 

▪Preparation of Program increment for development team

▪Communicate current status of the Agile Team - internally and externally

▪Alignment with Product Management Team to plan, deliver and launch the product

▪Responsible for managing stakeholders (see list above)

Prior Experience of  application of project management procedures, methods and tool landscape (e.g. classic and agile)Knowledge of Agile Development Processs and Agile Methods and Framework (e.g. SAFe)

Experience in Problem Resolution (e.g. A3) and Change Management

Experience in  relevant latest product technologies, processes for production, software and/or service development (e.g. software updates over the air)

Prior experience of how to analyze monitor, control and report the project status 

Knowledge of managing projects in order to achieve the project targets (time, benefit and objectives) and influencing the financial results and meeting the financial KPIs of the project 

Understanding of relevant different engineering and base solutions

Knowledge of coaching  and training techniques 

Knowledge of coaching team  in regards to quality mindset and ownership

Knowledge of Conflict Management techniques 

Knowledge on leadership models (e.g. transformational and valuebased leadership, motivation of team)

in  international/intercultural context

Good to have knowledge of relevant industry standards (e.g. Quality Management System and IATF,  customer specific requirements), processes and rules and internal decision-making structures Knowledge of stakeholdes and their interest for leading and managing the project 

What we offer:

The 13-th salary – Paid once a year, in December;

Meal tickets - With a value of 40 Ron;

Private Health Insurance – Health is the most important, so we offer you a medical subscription through Signal Iduna;

Referral bonuses - We encourage colleagues to refer new candidates to us and, at the same time, to get the chance to receive a bonus;

Bookster – Feed your body and your mind. You can borrow books and you’ll receive them at the office;

Sports benefits- It’s important to stay active, so we offer you the 7Card;

Discounts at our partners – We collaborate with different vendors, and we receive discounts for various products/ services like rubbers, restaurants, kindergartens, etc;

System for Rewarding Improvement Ideas – We have an internal improvement program (Continental Idea Management) that gives you the opportunity to come up with ideas and to be honored with an attractive bonus (this is established by the CIM team according to your improvement idea);

Happy days – If you or your child is getting married, or you become a parent, you receive some extra free days;

Life events celebration - If your family is growing, we praise your newborn with a bonus;

Unfortunate events - In case of unhappy events in your life, we support you by offering you free days and financial support (handled on a case by-case basis);

Extra vacation days – You begin with 22 vacation days/year, and starting with the 3rd year with us, we offer you 1 more day of vacation and. We reward employees who reach 15 and 20 years within the company with another day of vacation, reaching a maximum of 29 days.

Transport from the Timisoara area – You can choose to come with the bus provided by the company if you’ll work from the plant location/office;

Professional development - Many opportunities to develop yourself within the company;

Diversity and multicultural mindset - We encourage you to join us no matter who, where, or what you are. We have colleagues from different nations and a variety of languages are spoken in our company.

Ready to drive with Continental? Take the first step and fill in the online application.