We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our team in Lisbon and take ownership of large-scale and complex product initiatives. You will be the driving force connecting business objectives to development execution, ensuring that every feature, improvement, and release delivers real value to our users and aligns with the company’s vision.
As a Product Owner, your mission is to define, prioritize, and refine the product backlog to maximize value delivery. You will translate business goals into clear, actionable requirements, guide the development team through well-defined sprints, and maintain transparent communication between stakeholders and engineers. You will be deeply involved in the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and requirement gathering to release validation and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize the Product Backlog, creating, organizing, and prioritizing tasks according to key business goals
• Define sprint goals, setting the main tasks and objectives for each sprint
• Prepare requirements, gathering, documenting, and clarifying both functional and non-functional requirements together with stakeholders
• Participate in and run Scrum ceremonies, joining daily stand-ups and supporting sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Communicate with stakeholders, maintaining clear and open communication to secure approval on key decisions and directions
• Refine the backlog, collaborating with the team to prepare and clarify tasks before sprint planning while improving and updating requirements
• Manage change requests, collecting and prioritizing operational changes to include in future sprints
• Define acceptance criteria, establishing clear conditions to verify that tasks are completed properly and meet quality standards
• Maintain and control requirements, creating, updating, and ensuring that requirements match the current project status
• Create and support epics, user stories, use cases, and edge cases
• Participate in OKR planning, collaborating with stakeholders to set goals, evaluate progress, and plan quarterly objectives

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role, with direct ownership of requirements
• Proven experience in large-scale and complex projects involving backend and frontend development
• Strong understanding of the full requirements lifecycle and backlog management, with hands-on experience writing user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and task definitions
• Ability to independently clarify and elaborate requirements, turning business ideas into clear and actionable development tasks
• Solid knowledge of API integrations, product architecture, and core technical concepts
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to solve complex problems and drive outcomes
• Advanced level of English
• Experience creating and interpreting UML and BPMN diagrams
• Experience working in Agile environments and contributing to well-structured sprint planning

Benefits

• Learning and development opportunities and interesting, challenging tasks
• Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members)
• Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes)
• Partial compensation for tennis and padel lessons
• Urban Sport membership benefit (the most diverse sports and wellness offering in Europe, with more than 50+ activities)
• Private medical coverage, including inpatient, outpatient, dental care, annual check-ups, and maternity support
• Time for proper rest, with 24 non-business days per year and an additional 6 paid sick days
• Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month
• Competitive remuneration level with annual review
• Teambuilding activities

We are looking for a skilled Team Lead Product Owner to join us and visit our office in Valencia, Spain!

✅Key responsibilities:

✔️ Manage Product Backlog Formulating the list of backlog items and prioritising them as per the critical business objectives;

✔️ Define Sprint Objectives The product owner defines the suggested sprint objective which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal;

✔️Review and approve the work done by the development team: The product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification;

✔️ Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: The Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders;

They need to be clear and concise communicators to ensure there is approval of the stakeholders for all major decisions and strategies;

✔️ Backlog Refinement: Ability to prioritise, enhance, and finalise the items with the team before the sprint planning;

✔️ Create and Maintain Change Requests Associated with the Product: Predominantly an Operational task. The Product Owner will gather and prioritise operational changes and include them within the Product Backlog for future sprint iteration;

✔️ Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: The Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve.Having strongly defined acceptance criteria is vital to ensure

that the Product performs to the expected standard. A/C's should always be confirmed with Stakeholders and will be used as a baseline for QA to test against;

✔️ Gather Functional and non Functional Requirements: The Product Owner will ensure that all requirements are gathered and that they meet the Product Managers expectations;

✔️ Maintain Requirements: Requirements may be adjusted during the project lifecycle, this is to be expected in a dynamic environment such as ours.

If a requirement is adjusted then this must be reflected at the appropriate level (Epic, Story);

✔️ Verify Requirements: Once the requirements, functional and non functional, have been gathered from the Stakeholder the Product Owner will confirm and agree that the requirements are fit for purpose and use;

✔️ Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases. Although the creation of these artefacts may be done by another team the Product Owner holds accountability for the quality of their content;

✔️Participate in OKR planning: Working closely with stakeholders and participating in quarterly OKR planning for the product, including estimating their achievement.

✅Requirements:

✔️ Experience:

At least 3 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst).

At least 3 years as a Team Lead Product Owner. 

✔️ Skills Requirements:

To execute tasks, technical understanding is required in the following areas:

- Requirements lifecycle

- Product backlog management

- Product development architecture

- Scrum and Agile development methodologies

- User experience principles

- Coding and designing (nice to have)

✔️ Communication Skills (Proficient in English)

Use of verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to create and convey product goals. Reporting insights which allows them to maximise product value and address issues during the early stages of development.

✔️ Analytical Skills

Ability to analyse various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible. Identify, collect and analyse information, use reason to solve complex problems and make decisions based on logical conclusions.

✔️ Decision Making

Use technical, analytical and communications skills to make crucial decisions regarding their products success and development. After identifying an issue you must be able to collect and collate all relevant information, find ways of dealing with it, decide on the best option and implement/evaluate the results.

✔️ Organisational skills

Skills of establishing and managing processes, adapting them as necessary, and leading productive, inclusive meetings that foster collaboration and decision-making

✔️ Leadership

You will lead a team, therefore you must be able to demonstrate effective leadership techniques.Bring vision to the team, mentor where needed and negotiate with team members and the wider business.

✔️ Conflict Resolution

You will act as a mediator if/when conflict arises to ensure that the development stays on schedule. You will have the ability to resolve disputes over resource or power dynamics, using active listening skills to consider both sides and then make the decision.

✔️ Professional Certification:

PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement

✅Key responsibilities:
✔️ Manage Product Backlog Formulating the list of backlog items and prioritising them as per the critical business objectives;

✔️ Define Sprint Objectives The product owner defines the suggested sprint objective which will serve as a base to determine the sprint goal;

✔️Review and approve the work done by the development team: The product owner inspects the product increment made by the development team in each iteration, from design preparation to production release verification;

✔️ Provide effective communication to the stakeholders of the project: The Product Owner is the central communicator between the development team and the stakeholders;
They need to be clear and concise communicators to ensure there is approval of the stakeholders for all major decisions and strategies;

✔️ Backlog Refinement: Ability to prioritise, enhance, and finalise the items with the team before the sprint planning;

✔️ Create and Maintain Change Requests Associated with the Product: Predominantly an Operational task. The Product Owner will gather and prioritise operational changes and include them within the Product Backlog for future sprint iteration;

✔️ Define Acceptance Criteria for their Product: The Product Owner must know what they want their product features to achieve.Having strongly defined acceptance criteria is vital to ensure
that the Product performs to the expected standard. A/C's should always be confirmed with Stakeholders and will be used as a baseline for QA to test against;

✔️ Gather Functional and non Functional Requirements: The Product Owner will ensure that all requirements are gathered and that they meet the Product Managers expectations;

✔️ Maintain Requirements: Requirements may be adjusted during the project lifecycle, this is to be expected in a dynamic environment such as ours.
If a requirement is adjusted then this must be reflected at the appropriate level (Epic, Story);

✔️ Verify Requirements: Once the requirements, functional and non functional, have been gathered from the Stakeholder the Product Owner will confirm and agree that the requirements are fit for purpose and use;

✔️ Create and Maintain Epics, Stories, Use and Edge Cases. Although the creation of these artefacts may be done by another team the Product Owner holds accountability for the quality of their content;

✔️Participate in OKR planning: Working closely with stakeholders and participating in quarterly OKR planning for the product, including estimating their achievement.

✅Requirements:

✔️ Experience:

At least 3 years as a Product Owner or similar role (Business Analyst, System Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst).

✔️ Skills Requirements:

  To execute tasks, technical understanding is required in the following areas:

- Requirements lifecycle

- Product backlog management

- Product development architecture

- API integrations

- Scrum and Agile development methodologies

- User experience principles

- Coding and designing (nice to have)

✔️ Communication Skills (Proficient in English)

Use of verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to create and convey product goals. Reporting insights which allows them to maximise product value and address issues during the early stages of development.

✔️ Analytical Skills

Ability to analyse various issues and find workable solutions as quickly as possible. Identify, collect and analyse information, use reason to solve complex problems and make decisions based on logical conclusions.

✔️ Decision Making

Use technical, analytical and communications skills to make crucial decisions regarding their products success and development. After identifying an issue you must be able to collect and collate all relevant information, find ways of dealing with it, decide on the best option and implement/evaluate the results.

✔️ Organisational skills

Skills of establishing and managing processes, adapting them as necessary, and leading productive, inclusive meetings that foster collaboration and decision-making

✔️ Leadership

You will lead a team (without being a manager), therefore you must be able to demonstrate effective leadership techniques.Bring vision to the team, mentor where needed and negotiate with team members and the wider business.

✔️ Conflict Resolution

You will act as a mediator if/when conflict arises to ensure that the development stays on schedule. You will have the ability to resolve disputes over resource or power dynamics, using active listening skills to consider both sides and then make the decision.

✔️ Professional Certification:

PSPO level 1 or similar, but not a requirement

✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to:

🧑🏻‍💻 Learning and development opportunities and interesting challenging tasks;

✈️ Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for 2 weeks and visa relocation support for our employees and their family members);

📚 Opportunity to develop language skills and partial compensation for the cost of language classes;

🏥 Private medical coverage;

🎁 Birthday celebration present;

🏝 Annual Vacation and paid sick days;

✅ Competitive remuneration level with annual review;

🤝 Teambuilding activities.