Technical Product Owner (m/w/d)

Shape Axel Springer’s central Application Platform — a strategic foundation that empowers teams to efficiently build, run, and evolve both digital products like welt.de and bild.de, as well as business-critical internal applications supporting our editorial, subscription, and commercial operations.

Designed with a product mindset, this platform delivers robust self-service capabilities, integrates security and compliance by design, and reduces cognitive load for development and application teams alike.

As a Technical Product Owner, you shape this platform by translating strategy into clear priorities and ensuring that teams deliver meaningful, measurable value.

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies.
Our five essentials are the values that unite us and guide us in our commitment to freedom.

Job Description

• translate strategy into clear priorities so your team delivers measurable value
• balance platform maintenance and new feature development to ensure stability and innovation
• collaborate with users to develop ideas on how the platform can optimally support their work
• work closely with leadership and product teams to drive the platform’s strategy and roadmap
• keep the team’s roadmap up to date to ensure clear focus
• communicate team goals and outcomes to stakeholders
• facilitate sprint planning and reviews for efficient collaboration
• define actionable work packages together with your team as the basis for successful delivery

Qualifications

• extensive experience developing products in fast-paced, complex environments, ideally in infrastructure management
• advanced knowledge of cloud technologies, ideally AWS
• hands-on experience with agile methods such as Scrum and Kanban
• excellent communication and presentation skills
• strong analytical thinking with the ability to understand complex technical and organizational requirements
• ability to see the world through the eyes of our customers 
• convinced that meeting customers where they are is essential

Additional Information

• your personal growth is important to us: we offer trainings and learning lunches, tech conferences, a budget for workshops and much more to expand your knowledge and your skills
• employee offers that suit you and your life situation: Whether it's a discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing, a bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service), childcare facilities or two modern in-house kindergartens
• 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
• our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, we also offer a free lunch in our canteens
• we offer guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agency
• collaboration thrives on direct exchange - we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working
• from now a permanent full- or part-time position in a modern office in the heart of Berlin:

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