Team Lead Product Ownership (f/m/x)

As the Team Lead Product Ownership, you will play a key role in shaping and driving product value across our digital solutions. You will lead a team of Product Owners working in an agile environment, ensuring clear product direction, strong stakeholder alignment, and effective delivery within a SAFe-based setup.

You will combine people leadership with product ownership expertise, empowering your team to translate business needs into valuable, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.

• Guide, mentor, and develop a team of Product Owners, supporting both their professional growth and day-to-day effectiveness.

• Ensure clear product ownership across products, platforms, and initiatives, including well-structured backlogs, priorities, and value-driven delivery.

• Support Product Owners in translating business objectives, customer needs, and stakeholder requirements into actionable features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration with Software Engineering, Architects, Product Management, Business Owners, Operations, and other stakeholders.

• Drive alignment between product strategy, portfolio priorities, and agile delivery teams within a SAFe environment.

• Promote agile best practices, continuous improvement, and a strong product mindset across the team.

• Facilitate decision-making and prioritization by ensuring transparency on dependencies, risks, delivery progress, and business value.

• Proactively communicate challenges, trade-offs, and risks to the broader department, advocating for solutions and ensuring alignment with business priorities.

• Support PI Planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and other agile ceremonies where needed.

• Encourage a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and customer-centric thinking.

You are an experienced product ownership professional and people-oriented leader who thrives in agile environments. You are able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on support for your team and are passionate about delivering high-impact digital products.

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in an agile software development environment.

• Experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating Product Owners or cross-functional product teams.

• Strong understanding of agile delivery methods, preferably including SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, PI Planning, and backlog management.

• Ability to translate business goals, customer needs, and technical constraints into clear product priorities and actionable requirements.

• Experience managing product backlogs, defining user stories, acceptance criteria, features, and prioritization frameworks.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align different perspectives and drive decisions in complex environments.

• Analytical thinker with a proactive approach to identifying dependencies, resolving impediments, and managing delivery risks.

• Ability to clearly communicate product vision, priorities, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience working closely with software engineering teams, architects, UX/UI, business teams, and external suppliers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 5+ years of professional experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or agile software delivery.

• Collaborative mindset with a strong focus on team cohesion, shared success, and continuous improvement.

• Passion for digital products, agile ways of working, and creating customer and business value.