SWARCO is a growing international group with over 5000 employees on all continents.
This position is available in both Berlin, Germany, and Bucharest, Romania.
Job Description- Lead refinement sessions and sprint planning together with the development team
- Own and define requirements, epics, and user stories with a strong product mindset
- Manage and align with stakeholders across domains (e.g. sales, productmanagement, partners)
- Evaluate and structure incoming requirements, balancing business needs and product vision
- Set and continuously adjust team priorities in line with strategic goals
- Confidently handle mid-sprint changes while maintaining delivery stability
- Take ownership of release planning and communicate timelines transparently
- Provide clear and structured updates to senior management and stakeholders
- Highlight achievements, risks, and trade-offs to ensure transparency and informed decisions
- Collaborate closely with QA to define test scenarios and ensure customer sign-off
- Ensure high-quality, consistent, and understandable product documentation
- Actively incorporate user feedback into product decisions and roadmap planning
- Co-lead the team together with the Team Lead in a close and collaborative setup
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in a comparable role
- Knowledge in Traffic Domain or strong interest in mobility, traffic systems, smart cities, or similar environments
- A bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and hands-on experience managing backlogs and sprints
- Product mindset: You take ownership beyond “just PO tasks” and avoid silo thinking
- Experience working in complex software environments (ideally cloud-based systems)
- Solid technical understanding and affinity (no deep engineering expertise required)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across different levels and regions
- Ability to translate complex, regional requirements into clear and actionable product features
- Assertiveness and strong argumentation skills when prioritizing and making decisions
- Clear customer and user focus in all product decisions
- Proven team player with a collaborative and proactive mindset
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Fluent in English (written and spoken), German is a plus, other languages are appreciated
- A strong team spirit and strong cohesion - confirmed by the last employee survey. Teamwork takes centre stage with us
- SWARCO offers a secure job in a stable industry in an international group
- Benefit from customised training opportunities that promote your professional developmen
- Take advantage of 30 days' holiday and special leave, e.g. for marriage, for example
- Take advantage of our hybrid and flexible working arrangements, which enable both on-site and mobile working, depending on the job
- We offer a 15% contribution to the company pension scheme, far more than the statutory contribution, as well as capital-forming benefit
- Your health is important to us: benefit from (e-)bike leasing and a €160/year contribution to health care and fitness programmes, e.g. via wellhub
- Our offer for your personal well-being includes free, unbureaucratic external advice for professional, private or health-related issues
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent
- Strong understanding of Agile principles and hands-on experience with backlogs and sprints
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Knowledge in Traffic Domain or strong interest in mobility, traffic systems, smart cities
What We Do
SWARCO’s leading idea is to improve quality of life by making the travel experience safer, quicker, more convenient and environmentally sound. For this purpose, the Austrian traffic technology corporation produces and provides a large range of products, systems, services, and turnkey solutions for road marking, urban and interurban traffic management, parking, and public transport. Cooperative systems, infrastructure-to-vehicle communication, e-mobility, and integrated software solutions for the Liveable City complement the group’s future-oriented portfolio. 5,300 traffic experts are keen to shape together with all stakeholders in the traffic industry the transition from conventional traffic management to value-added services fit for the traveller in the digital age. The family-owned SWARCO Group looks back to over 50 years of experience and innovation and holds leading positions in the traffic technology industry, being the world’s largest manufacturer of LED traffic lights, the world’s no. 1 producer of highly energy-efficient LED variable message signs, the world’s no. 1 in the production of the full range of road marking systems, and Germany’s no. 1 in parking guidance systems for cities and businesses. SWARCO’s products, systems and solutions contribute to greater road safety and intelligent traffic management in 80 countries. In 2020, the Group generated revenues of 1.1 billion euros. www.swarco.com
