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Product Owner – Publishing Platform - Hubert Burda Media｜Meet.jobs

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63k - 89k EUR Annually

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    Job description

    Who we are ...

    BurdaForward strives for journalistic innovation with leading publishing brands and the latest technology. With Focus Online, Chip, TV Spielfilm, Bunte, Finanzen100, Netmoms, The Weather Channel, Efahrer, Fit for Fun, Cinema and Cardscout, we inspire almost 70 percent of all internet users in Germany (AGOF digital facts) and are a driving force of the public debate – also by tradition: BurdaForward is part of the family-owned company Hubert Burda Media.

     

    What you can expect from us ...

    • You lead the product development of our new publishing platform which will be able to support the variety of brands which BurdaForward comprises (Focus, Chip, Bunte, Netmoms, Finanzen100) in a fully flexible and modular up to date fashion.
    • You collaborate closely with the leadership and the developers to create and evangelize our publishing platform vision across the entire organization.
    • You track and provide visibility to stakeholders into team’s progress and impact on the timeline of delivery during sprints and cycles.
    • You stay in touch with your stakeholders and prioritize tickets in the sprints.
    • You will be the interface between developers, the management, UX, the editorial team and stakeholders from other teams within the company.
    • You work fully integrated in a large development team – consisting of in-house developers in Munich and Bari, as well as from external agencies.
     

    What we would expect from you ...

    • You are able to collect, understand and prioritize requirements of a publishing platform from stakeholders in the organization.
    • You have a strong product-driven mind-set and are able to deliver high quality and production-ready features.
    • You have at least three years of professional experience.
    • You are able to manage a roadmap for technical products, from inception to launch.
    • You can build and defend a consistent vision while being flexible on the details.
    • You understand the language of engineers and are comfortable engaging also in technical discussions.
    • You have a strong analytical and agile mind-set and have a track record in working successfully with agile methodologies like Scrum.
    • You are able to make technical topics accessible to a non-technical audience and business topics to a technical audience.
    • You have grown strong communication in English, both oral and written and enjoy working in an international environment.
    • Having worked in the publishing sector before is a plus.
     

    What we can offer you ...

    • We give you a wide range of responsibilities in a technology-driven environment in which your ideas really matter! More than 32 million people use and appreciate our articles and software.
    • We are a company with flat hierarchies and a cross-functional team structure – as a result, much of the decision-making power lies within the teams themselves.
    • We offer a competent and motivated team, exciting tasks and freedom to design independently and give impulses.
    • We respond individually to your life situation. This includes flexible working time models, sabbaticals and support with childcare.
    • Our trust-based workplace offer includes the option of working from home or using our individual flexdesk solution in the company office.
    • We have a comprehensive training program that covers both professional and personal aspects (e.g. English and German courses).
    • After pandemic: We offer regular learning lunches, our annual internal Tech Forward conference and training programs throughout the year – enabling you to grow professionally and personally. Would you personally benefit from participating in an exciting specialist conference? We will try to make it happen.
    • You have a new business idea and would like to found a start-up within the company? Convince us and we will support you structurally and financially.
    • You will receive a smartphone and a laptop for professional and also private use at the start. Apple or Windows? Your choice.

    We respect diversity and we therefore welcome all applications – independently of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion and ideology, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

    Hubert Burda Media