IT Product Owner (m/w/x)

Remote Work from European Country, Remote

Full-time

Permanent employee

Your mission

At IONITY, we are developing digital products that power the e-mobility ecosystem. As an IT Product Owner for an agile backend team, you are responsible for maximizing the value delivered by your agile team within Agile Release Train (ART).
 You work closely with Business Owners, Product Management, System Architects, and other Product Owners to understand the vision and roadmap. You translate Features into well-defined Stories and ensure their successful delivery within Planning Intervals (PIs), contributing to a reliable and value-driven flow across domains.
 
As an IT Product Owner in a SAFe environment, you:

Elicit, clarify, and assess stakeholder needs and requests, making transparent trade-offs based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies
Align priorities, requirements, scope boundaries, assumptions, and decisions with relevant business and technical stakeholders
Strongly influence the evolution of your domain and its technical roadmap
Create, maintain, and prioritize the product backlog, structuring it into incremental releases
Translate product features into detailed technical user stories for backend services and domain logic
Define functional and non-functional acceptance criteria and ensure testability
Coordinate with other Product Owners to identify integration points across domains and ensure product and release coherence
Provide transparency on scope, priorities, status, risks, and dependencies
Actively contribute to relevant Scrum and SAFe events by clarifying priorities and requirements, enabling timely decisions, and ensuring a shared understanding of intended outcomes
Track progress and coordinate the prioritization and resolution of production issues

Your profile

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar relevant field
2–5 years of professional experience as IT Product Owner working with agile development teams
Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to align business and technical stakeholders
Ability to provide clear product direction and align a cross-functional development team around shared goals and priorities
Analytical skills combined with a creative, solution-oriented mindset
Solid understanding of SAFe (team and program level), including ART ceremonies and PI planning
Sound knowledge of backend development, APIs, and domain-driven system design
Proven experience in requirements analysis, story slicing, and prioritization
Quality mindset (“shift left”: considering testability, NFRs, DoR/DoD from the start)
Very good communication skills in English; German is a plus
Motivated to familiarize yourself with new topics
Genuine interest in the e-mobility industry

Über uns

OUR MISSION

All of us at IONITY are driven by the belief that powering an EV across Europe should be so carefree that soon you’ll never even think about it again. Over the coming years, driving an EV will increasingly mean freedom for everyone. Freedom to power your dreams across borders. To travel anywhere in Europe. To hop in, and only then decide where you’re going.