Technical Product Owner to client in Uppsala

Do you want to be part of the future of science and medicine, developing products that enable researchers in the fight to save lives? Do you have experience from managing product backlog and defining product requirements? Do you want to work for an attractive and global company at their Uppsala site? In that case, this might be the role for you.

Our client is now recruiting a Technical Product Owner. This is a permanent position at our clients site in Uppsala.

As a Technical Product Owner you get the opportunity to participate in stimulating and highly diversified tasks. Our client offers you a dynamic environment where you get to be part of a dedicated and motivated team determined to transform human health.


Responsibilities
- Collaborating with Service and relevant stakeholders to understand and anticipate Serviceability (both hardware and software) needs on multiple products and translate them into requirements
- Define product requirements – writing and prioritizing use cases.
- Manage product backlog, prioritize feature development, support execution plans following the hardware and devices roadmap.
- Work closely with engineering managers and leads, product managers/owners, to ensure execution of the backlog.
- Interact with and motivate Field service engineering teams across multiple locations and harness their high energy to deliver on Serviceability requirements
- Overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development
- Foster a culture focused on transparency, speed of decision-making, and a synchronized partnership within product teams.
- Facilitate the resolution of issues, risks, and challenges that surface in the development process
- Operate in a highly matrixed and globally distributed organization and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Your profile
You have a BS/BA in and engineering discipline or a closely related field. Your expertise comprises Product/Program Management from large-scale, complex and cross-functional programs integrating hardware, software and controls. Furthermore you have a demonstrated experience running projects using agile development principles, with knowledge of industry standard tools and best practices. We also believe that you have experience with using metrics and data analysis to support or drive the right or most beneficial process improvements.

The ideal candidate feels confident in the role as a Technical Product Owner, has good negotiation and relationship skills, both in directing the technical team and ability to manage and reach solutions to competing priorities. You have demonstrated experience facilitating dynamic meetings, coordinating among high energy participants and directing towards productive results. As a person, you are an ultimate team player with proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, willingness to adapt to change and proceed on decisions made with varying levels of uncertainty. As our client Vattenfall operates in an international market, the position requires fluency in spoken as well as written English. If you know Swedish, it is considered a merit.

About the organisation
Poolia offers a high level of expertise in the core areas of permanent placement and temporary staffing. The permanent placement and temporary staffing services are divided into several specialist areas: Finance & Accounting, IT, Office Support, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, Life Science & Engineering and Legal.
Another specialist area is executive recruitment through Poolia Executive Search. The Company was founded by Björn Örås in 1989, and in 2015 had just over 1,350 employees in Sweden, Finland and Germany and a turnover of SEK 757 million.