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Senior Product Owner
·Germany
HybridFull-timeProduct ManagementInsurance
Lead the IT product team for contract systems at a major German insurance broker. Drive product vision, agile development, and stakeholder alignment. 5+ years experience required.
Responsibilities
- Provide functional leadership for the entire IT product team for contracts, collaborating closely with Product Owners of individual agile teams.
- Set clear, prioritized product goals and steer the development of the contract system, including new features, migrations, and integration of additional insurance lines.
- Oversee the IT product throughout its lifecycle, ensuring high technical quality and stable, service-oriented operations.
- Act as the central point of contact for business and technical stakeholders, from departments and IT to management and external partners.
- Foster continuous team development together with the team lead and Scrum Master.
Requirements
- Degree in business informatics or equivalent qualification with a strong technical background.
- Several years (approx. 5–10) of IT product responsibility, ideally in the insurance sector, built on a solid technical foundation (e.g., IT development, system integration, or application support) and evolved toward business topics, stakeholder management, and Product Ownership.
- Extensive practical experience in agile collaboration; functional leadership of cross-functional agile teams is a strong plus.
- Seniority and confidence reflected in demeanor, experience, and decisiveness.
- Strong agile mindset: think in value streams, learn iteratively, and constructively challenge the status quo.
- Team player with high social competence, able to collaborate on equal footing with other Product Owners.
- Natural leadership personality who is accepted by teams, provides guidance, and listens actively.
- Clear, binding, and audience-appropriate communication with departments, IT, management, and external partners.
Benefits
- Inspiring work environment in the city center, shaped by family tradition and employee focus.
- Great creative freedom in an internationally successful, organically growing, and future-oriented company.
- Modern working time model with flexible hours and home office for work-life balance.
- Diverse internal and external training opportunities for future-oriented development.
- Attractive compensation including 13th salary, holiday pay, travel allowance, and other benefits.