[Hiring] Technical Product Owner Matrix @Famedly

Role Description

As Technical Product Owner Matrix (m/w/d), you own the “how” and “when” for our Matrix homeserver team. You combine user needs and specifications into a clear, prioritized backlog and make sure the team delivers reliably, release after release.

Responsibilities

• Backlog: Own and prioritize the team backlog, balancing new initiatives with operational and maintenance work, and weighing features, bugs, and technical debt together with the team.
• Requirements engineering: Structure user stories and needs into epics and tasks with clear requirements while balancing the solutions against the specifications of the Matrix protocol and the TI-Messenger.
• Delivery: Steer delivery using agile methods; refine tasks with the team, validate implementations, and ensure urgency is balanced against a focused backlog.
• Releases: Own release planning and go-live readiness within our two-week release train.
• Stakeholders: Align requests from sales, customers, and engineering, coordinate dependencies with other product teams, infrastructure, and support, communicate decisions and trade-offs early, and escalate to PM or Head of Product where needed. Give interested parties insights into plans and goals while keeping expectations within reasonable bounds.
• Engineering collaboration: Work closely with engineers at eye level, understand technical trade-offs on the Matrix homeserver, write clear and testable acceptance criteria, and protect the team's focus.
• AI: Use AI as a natural part of your work, for example for spec analysis, writing stories, and test cases.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner for a technical product, such as backend services, protocols, or APIs.
• Solid understanding of Matrix or comparable federated communication systems, homeservers, end-to-end encryption, and APIs.
• Experience working with specifications and in a regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and agile methods.
• Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent English and German language skills.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the German telematics infrastructure (TI) or gematik specifications (nice to have).
• For this position, we can currently only consider applications from candidates residing in Germany or another EU/EEA country.

Benefits

• Work at a fast-growing startup in an exciting phase.
• Meaningful ownership — Take responsibility for software people rely on every day in critical environments.
• Modern AI tooling — Use up-to-date coding agents and models without having to count tokens.
• Your perfect work-life balance — With remote work and flexible hours, you decide when and where you are most productive.
• Attractive conditions — A permanent contract with competitive compensation, a training budget, work equipment of your choice, and 28 vacation days per year.
• Flexible Benefits with Probonio — Monthly wellbeing budget for vouchers or discounted memberships.
• A diverse and international team — We value an open mindset and a diverse, inclusive culture.
• Regular team events — Workshops, team-building activities, virtual game nights, and company events.

Company Description

We are a proud equal-opportunities employer and place great value on mutual tolerance and acceptance in a diverse environment. Everyone receives the same opportunities in our application process.