Senior Technical Product Owner Web and Digital Platform

Role & responsibilities

• Ownership of backlog and roadmap balancing new business features, operational needs, and technical debt into transparent priorities
• Translation of business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes
• Act as a strong technical sparring partner for developers, architects, and global tech leads, including deep-dive discussions on solution design, APIs, integrations and implementation approach.
• Overview of integrations and data flows across CMS, eCommerce, product content, asset delivery
• Dependency management across international teams
• Coach and guide developers on technical topics, engineering best practices, platform understanding, and solution thinking.
• Platform health — incident prioritization, root cause follow-up, corrective actions in the backlog
• Release coordination with development and operations
• Scrum ceremonies, automation and modernization opportunities

Preferred candidate profile : Your qualifications:

• Degree in Business Information Systems, IT, Computer Science, or comparable background
• 5+ years in product ownership, digital product management or platform management
• 3+ years working directly with software development teams
• Backlog ownership for an integration-heavy product — interfaces, dependencies, operational topics
• Able to read a system landscape, follow data flows and API contracts, challenge technical trade-offs, translate in both directions
• Application operations and production support — incident prioritization, root cause follow-up
• Jira, Confluence, agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban)
• Excellent English
• PIM, DAM, CMS, product content or asset delivery — SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP PCM, FirstSpirit or comparable
• REST APIs, event-driven architectures, integration patterns
• AWS or Azure, cloud-native integration services
• Git, CI/CD, automated testing, Grafana or CloudWatch, ServiceNow
• Background in software development, solution engineering, or technical consulting