[Hiring] IT Product Owner @IONITY GmbH

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Company Description

IONITY is a joint venture of the car manufacturers BMW Group, Ford Motor Company, Hyundai Motor Group, Kia, Mercedes-Benz AG and Volkswagen Group with Audi and Porsche, along with BlackRocks Climate Infrastructure Platform as financial investor.