Product Owner

Accesa is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea, Bucharest, Timisoara and 20 years of experience in turning business challenges into opportunities and growth.

A value-driven organisation, it has established itself as a partner of choice for major brands in Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, and Banking. It covers the complete digital evolution journey of its customers, from ideation and requirements setup to software development and managed services solutions.

With more than 1,200 IT professionals, Accesa also has a fast-growing footprint, establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology. Coming together in strong tech teams with a customer-centric approach, they enable businesses to grow, delivering value for our clients, partners, industry, and community.

Our client is a trusted partner in the financial-banking sector in Germany, both in the public and private sectors who offers services for over 150,000 banking workstations and for more than 4,500 employees. It covers over 60% of banking sector in Germany.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Impact -> Your expertise will play a pivotal role in consistently identify, understand, and document the business needs in a core banking project with impact in multiple other banking areas. 
• Bridge Business and IT -> You will facilitate and moderate the interactions between business and IT stakeholders while being part of a mixed team consisting of  Business Analysts, Developers, UI/UX Designer, Customer Support and a Squad Owner.
• Streamline Requirements ->You will document the functional and non-functional requirements, define the specific context, activity, and entity-relationship diagrams and accommodate different dependencies.
• Leverage Expertise -> You will manage and prioritize the product backlog for development: write and estimate user stories with the development team. Contribute to milestones as needed and ensure that the acceptance criteria are defined accordingly. The project offers you the opportunity to take ownership. 
• Strategic Shaping -> You will manage the product roadmap: propose implementation roadmap to the customer, understand business objectives for the roadmap, guide stakeholders and challenge priorities.
• Ensure Outstanding Quality -> You will perform functional testing actions.
• Nurture Knowledge -> You will train, mentor, and coach other Product Owners, enabling knowledge and know-how scalability at organizational level.

Mandatory: 

• 3+ years’ of experience working in a similar role 
• Very good ability to understand the business context 
• Experience in applying agile methodologies 
• Good communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills 
• Ability to manage change and work in a dynamic environment 
• Proven client facing and stakeholder management experience, manifesting focus on customer needs and business value 
• Spoken and written fluency in English and German

Is highly appreciated: 

• Technical knowledge (i.e. HTTP methods, Postman, SQL, Sequence Diagram) 

Enjoy our holistic benefits program that covers the four pillars that we believe come together to support our wellbeing, covering social, physical, emotional wellbeing, as well as work-life fusion.

• Physical Wellbeing: Our wellbeing program includes medical benefits, gym support, and personalized fitness options for an active lifestyle, complemented by team events and the Healthy Habits Club.
• Work-Life Fusion: In very dynamic industries such as IT, the line between our professional and personal lives can quickly become blurred. Having a one-size-fits-one approach gives us the flexibility to define the work-life dynamic that works for us.
• Emotional Wellbeing: We believe that to maintain our overall health, we need to invest in our mental wellbeing just as much as we do in our physical health, social connections or in achieving work-life balance.
• Social Wellbeing: As a growing community in a hybrid environment, we want to ensure we remain connected not just by the great work we do every day but through our passions and interests.