Produktspezialist (m/w/d)

Do you want to progress professionally and desire a job where you are challenged and supported? With regular working hours, good benefits, and diverse opportunities for further development? Then you've come to the right place: Our business partner offers an attractive position as a global product specialistat at their location in Luedenscheid. Apply online right away. We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

• Work in collaboration with other Global Product Managers to identify, define and manage digital services and applications based on the holistic residential digital strategy for a comprehensive digital Home Automation offering to optimize customer satisfaction and digitally enhance the product/system/service portfolio.
• Act as an Agile Product Owner who identifies, defines, prioritizes, and manages the backlog of digital features along the digital user journey such as apps, integrations, licensing, digital user flows, digital marketplace, partner pages and overall web representation.
• Translate long term business/product strategies into short term, iterative development cycles and technical requirements to R&D teams.
• Understand jobs to be done, needs (pain points) and stakeholders' desired outcomes along the value chain.
• Help to uncover and prioritize ideas that deliver differentiated value.
• Follows and understands global standards and customer requirements and their impact on the digital tools. Conducts competitor analyses and evaluates the position.
• Ensure frequent delivery of deployable code (in sprints and MVPs) in relation with the R&D teams.
• Provides requirements to R&D and IT/IS organizations and drives the implementation, testing and launch of solutions.
• Work with cross-functional and cross-geography teams providing product related direction to R&D, design and communication teams.
• Educate internal product, sales and marketing organizations about our Digital Services offering.

• University degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information technology, Digital Business or User Experience Design.
• At least 2 years relevant experience in product management or as product owner, preferable within an international business environment, preferentially related to SW, IT, IoT, UX.
• Possess a strong technical background of software engineering, system architectures, networking technologies, IoT & cloud technologies. A previous experience in an IT/IoT company or digital startup is preferential.
• Possess a strong customer orientation with the ability to clearly communicate customer needs within the project team.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Lean) and associated DevOps tooling is required.
• Fluent in English with strong written & verbal communication skills and ability to tailor communication level to match the audience type.
• Highly motivated and results oriented individual possessing the ability to proactively lead/drive initiatives with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Track record of working effectively with internationally distributed teams and different stakeholders, technical and non-technical.

• Excess pay based on qualifications and professional experience in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement (DGB/GVP)
• Challenging projects and diverse tasks in an international environment
• Attractive social benefits, such as vacation and Christmas bonuses
• Up to 30 days vacation per year
• Family-friendly working hours: No shift or weekend work

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