Product Owner / Project Lead (all genders)

Job Title Product Owner / Project Lead (all genders)

Job Description

In this role, you will act as the customer representative within an agile development team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, business-critical features that create value for customers and meet their expectations. You will define, prioritize, and validate functional and non-functional requirements, manage the team backlog, and help drive successful product development across program increments.

Your role: 

• Contribute to and review the program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.

• Prepare for and participate in release planning, contribute to Program Increment (PI) planning, refine the program backlog, and prioritize portfolio backlogs to continuously translate them into program and team backlogs. Draft the team's objectives for each Program Increment.

• Define iterations and user stories for the agile teams, while building, reviewing, reprioritizing, and managing the team backlog in coordination with other Product Owners.

• Take primary responsibility for maintaining the flow of user stories by defining stories, providing detailed requirements and priorities, establishing acceptance criteria, and validating completed stories before they are accepted into the final iteration plan.

• Support the teams with story estimation and sequencing, and facilitate sprint planning and backlog refinement sessions.

• Define functional and non-functional requirements, including user interface specifications, identify gaps between the current system and customer or market needs, and ensure the solution is validated with clients, partners, and customers.

You should bring the following: 

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, ideally in the medical device or imaging technology industry, with a strong technical background (e.g. Technical Product Manager or Engineer).

• In-depth knowledge of CT scanner systems and components, including X-ray tubes and cooling units.

• Experience working with agile methodologies, continuous improvement, lean processes, and cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated success in strategic product lifecycle management, including driving cost savings and business value.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, international environment; experience abroad is a plus.

• Fluent in English; German language skills are an advantage. Experience with state-of-the-art AI tools is required.

Philips benefits for you: 

• Annual leave: 30 days  

• Mobility and devices: subsidized Germany ticket, leasing opportunities for private use (bicycles, cars, smartphones,…) 

• Philips University & Philips in Balance: Wide range of professional training courses and for personal development & Healthcare 

• Philips Pension Fund: Employer-funded pension plan  

• “Partnerzeit” – two paid weeks off after your partner has given birth 

• Philips MyShop: Discount on Philips products  

• Meals: Free drinks and low prices in our canteen and Café Philistro  

• Culture: Informal culture, a paid day for voluntary work, various team/cultural activities (on sustainability, diversity, ...), etc.  

How We Work Together 

We believe that we achieve better results when we work together rather than apart. For this role this means to be on-site at least 3 days a week. 

About Philips 

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. With patient safety and Quality as our fundamental premise, we focus on regulatory requirements and quality standards in our daily work. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. 

• Learn more about our business. 

• Discover our rich and exciting history. 

• Learn more about our purpose. 

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here. 

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