Product Owner

Are you a experienced product owner that want to take a next step in your career? If you thrive in an international, dynamic, and fast-growing SaaS environment and see a value in Benify’s core values of showing love, thinking ahead, and exceeding expectations then you might be the person we’re looking for! In this role, you will have a unique chance to make an impact in building a solid product with a strong set of core functionalities across markets! 

Benify is a global HR tech company that specializes in employee benefits and engagement solutions. With a mission to make the workplace better, we provide cutting-edge digital platforms that help companies attract, reward, and retain top talent. With over 500 Benifyers in 6 countries, we're driving success with over 1500 customers and approximately two million users around the world. We empower people to be the best they can be while fostering a sustainable and engaging work culture where employees feel engaged and included. Come help us make peoples’ lives easier and more beneficial!

About the role

We are now looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our Tech Organization leading the work in the Employee Experience & Content Management System teams. A high performing team consisting of both developers, tech lead, agile coach and UX designers who’s focus is to ensure perfect user experience and functionality for our Communication, Compensation, Manager, and Content tools.

You will be a key figure in our organization, by being the bridge between R&D teams and different stakeholders, ask the right questions to understand the product needs and find the best solution together with your team - to bring business and product value. You will own the vision and development backlog for the specific area and make sure that the team is doing the right things, while they focus on doing things right. 

What you will do in this position

As Product Owner, your main objective and responsibility is to own, build, prioritize, decide and refine stories in your backlog to maximize value-added work from a business perspective to streamline execution. You will drive the Product work in our development teams with a up to 6 month time horizon and maintaining technical integrity of the teams domain . You participate in discussions with your stakeholders and coordinate tasks with other product owners.

Your focus is to secure and own the end to end responsibility making sure our customers get the best possible system with regards to functionality and quality.

The development team expects you to drive the work with stakeholders to understand the product purpose, business value and development needs, contribute to the creation of user stories, prioritize them in the team backlog and not least secure that the acceptance criteria are met. The work include work with our longtime nearshoring team and therefore will put extra focus on your ability to involve and integrate.

Personal attributes

Since you will have external as well as internal contact areas, you have great skills in building professional relationships. You have the ability to transform business needs into product features and understand what is technically possible. You are organized and can put pieces together to see the big picture and also have the analytical skills to make fact-based decisions to know what to prioritize to bring value to our product.

To be successful in this role, we also expect you to bring the following:

- Relevant education, probably within the field of Software Product Management

- Excellent knowledge in product management and agile processes

- At least 3-5 years of experience in the field, and 2 years as a product owner in a software engineering environment

- Preferably experience from working with products close to the end user in collaboration with UX and development teams

- You have a great business, commercial & customer mindset and understand metrics, growth, usage, customer value and profitability

Perks of being a Benifyer

- 💡Innovation: Be part of a scale-up company at the forefront of HR tech innovation

- 🌍Global Impact: Collaborate with diverse teams and clients worldwide

- 🚀Career Growth: Opportunity for career development and advancement within the company

- 🧘‍♀️Work-Life Balance: A supportive and flexible work environment

- 🤘Competitive Benefits: Enjoy a range of employee benefits

- 🎈Have fun: Different events during the year and one yearly conference

Practical information

Start: As soon as we find our perfect match

Location: Gothenburg, Masthamnsgatan 5

Extent: Full time