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Senior Product Owner

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  • Level
    Senior
  • Job Field
    Product
  • Employment Type
    Full Time
  • Contract Type
    Permanent employment
  • Location
    Ludwigsburg
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Job Summary

    In this role, you will lead the enhancement of a central data service by prioritizing requirements, optimizing the backlog, and collaborating closely with stakeholders and your Scrum team to deliver high-quality releases.

    Your role in the team

    • You are responsible for the further development of the ADDISON Data Service – a central platform for the compliant transmission of social security and tax reports.
    • You ensure that complex professional and technical requirements are translated into clear product decisions, a prioritized backlog, and reliable releases.
    • There, you combine product thinking, stakeholder management, and a solid technical understanding to deliver measurable real customer value.
    • You implement the product strategy together with product management, stakeholders, and your Scrum team, ensuring clear priorities and transparency.
    • You are the central point of contact for the software development team, our clients, as well as internal and external stakeholders.
    • You gather, clarify, and coordinate technical and professional requirements, structure dependencies, and facilitate decisions to ensure that implementation remains focused and manageable.
    • In collaboration with the Business Analysts of your team, you create and maintain the Product Backlog and ensure that requirements are understandable, testable, and sensibly prioritized (for example, Epics and User Stories with clear acceptance criteria).
    • You actively support the implementation through daily meetings, sprint reviews, and relevant coordination, identify risks early, and ensure that releases are delivered on time and with the expected quality.
    • You work closely with Product Owners of adjacent systems and departments to plan and coordinate interfaces, integrations, and joint roadmaps.
    • You further develop cross-team collaboration with the aim of reducing lead times, minimizing friction losses, and measurably improving the customer experience.

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    Our expectations of you

    Education

    • Completed degree with a focus on Computer Science, Business Informatics, Business Administration, or a comparable qualification.

    Qualifications

    • Very good practical knowledge of agile methodologies, especially Scrum or Scaled Agile Framework.
    • Proven ability to analyze, structure, and translate complex domain-specific and technical requirements into actionable backlog items.
    • Structured working methods as well as confident moderation and presentation skills (for example, refinements and sprint reviews).
    • Assertiveness and decisiveness, as well as a confident handling of conflicts and differing interests.
    • High level of initiative and ownership: You proactively drive topics forward and work in a solution-oriented manner.
    • Fluent communication in German and English; you can effectively mediate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
    • Personality and Collaboration: high social competence, excellent communication skills, as well as an open, convincing, and authentic demeanor.

    Experience

    • At least five years of experience in agile product development, including relevant experience in product ownership or backlog management.
    • Technical basic understanding to communicate on equal terms with developers; ideally experience with integrations, APIs, logging, monitoring, or interface concepts - or a clearly demonstrated willingness to systematically acquire this knowledge.

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    What we offer

    • You will receive a permanent employment contract with an international company as well as a company pension scheme with personalized advice.
    • 30 days of vacation, flexible working hours, and the opportunity to work remotely on designated days — this job fits your life.
    • You can work flexibly abroad for up to 20 days within twelve months.
    • We support you with structured onboarding, learning on the job, international career opportunities, and internal as well as external training.
    • Our corporate benefits program offers you everything from JobRad to life and pension counseling.
    • Additionally, you will receive an extra day off, the Volunteer Day, to support social projects.
    • With our program "Wolters Kluwer hilft," we as a company also support social projects.
    • You work with high-performance IT equipment, at modern workstations with a shared desk system, free beverages, and in well-connected office buildings.
    • At our employee events and through our employee referral program, you experience genuine camaraderie.
    • Short decision-making paths, flat hierarchies, and space for your ideas are a matter of course for us.

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    Job Locations

    • Location Ludwigsburg

      Baden-Württemberg

      Germany

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    Wolters Kluwer Software und Service GmbH

    Wolters Kluwer Software und Service GmbH

    As a leading provider of information, software and services, Wolters Kluwer helps experts work better and solve complex problems in a constantly changing world. We are committed to the success of people and businesses we serve in over 180 countries every day.

    Description

  • Company Size
    50-249 Employees
  • Company Type
    Established Company
  • Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
  • Industry
    Internet, IT, Telecommunication
  • Location
    Ludwigsburg
    Working Model
    Hybrid, Onsite
    Diversity
    Open for all genders

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