Become part of our SWARCO team as
Product Owner (m/f/d)
Location: Berlin, BE, Germany | Full-time | Hybrid
Company Description
SWARCO is a growing international group with over 5000 employees on all continents.
Challenge
- Lead refinement sessions and sprint planning together with the development team
- Own and define requirements, epics, and user stories with a strong product mindset
- Manage and align with stakeholders across domains (e.g. sales, productmanagement, partners)
- Evaluate and structure incoming requirements, balancing business needs and product vision
- Set and continuously adjust team priorities in line with strategic goals
- Confidently handle mid-sprint changes while maintaining delivery stability
- Take ownership of release planning and communicate timelines transparently
- Provide clear and structured updates to senior management and stakeholders
- Highlight achievements, risks, and trade-offs to ensure transparency and informed decisions
- Collaborate closely with QA to define test scenarios and ensure customer sign-off
- Ensure high-quality, consistent, and understandable product documentation
- Actively incorporate user feedback into product decisions and roadmap planning
- Co-lead the team together with the Team Lead in a close and collaborative setup
Profile
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a comparable role
- Knowledge in Traffic Domain or strong interest in mobility, traffic systems, smart cities, or similar environments
- A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and hands-on experience managing backlogs and sprints
- Product mindset: You take ownership beyond “just PO tasks” and avoid silo thinking
- Experience working in complex software environments (ideally cloud-based systems)
- Solid technical understanding and affinity (no deep engineering expertise required)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across different levels and regions
- Ability to translate complex, regional requirements into clear and actionable product features
- Assertiveness and strong argumentation skills when prioritizing and making decisions
- Clear customer and user focus in all product decisions
- Proven team player with a collaborative and proactive mindset
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Fluent in English (written and spoken), German is a plus, other languages are appreciated
Benefits
- A strong team spirit and strong cohesion - confirmed by the last employee survey. Teamwork takes centre stage with us
- SWARCO offers a secure job in a stable industry in an international group
- Benefit from customised training opportunities that promote your professional developmen
- Take advantage of 30 days' holiday and special leave, e.g. for marriage, for example
- Take advantage of our hybrid and flexible working arrangements, which enable both on-site and mobile working, depending on the job
- We offer a 15% contribution to the company pension scheme, far more than the statutory contribution, as well as capital-forming benefit
- Your health is important to us: benefit from (e-)bike leasing and a €160/year contribution to health care and fitness programmes, e.g. via wellhub
- Our offer for your personal well-being includes free, unbureaucratic external advice for professional, private or health-related issues
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