Product Owner - Cloud Software Development (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Saarbrücken, Remote - Germany

About this job

We believe in the power of open-source collaboration to solve complex challenges in Kubernetes data management and are looking for a Product Owner (m/f/d) to push forward our vision of a centralized data service management for many Kubernetes clusters.

The product called Klutch is open-source software that simplifies managing data services and enables on-demand provisioning via a Kubernetes-native interface. Klutch is a powerful, Kubernetes-native orchestration tool that simplifies data management across multiple Kubernetes clusters. It provides centralized management and on-demand provisioning of data services through a Kubernetes-native interface, while also serving as a central registry for service instances across environments. Klutch leverages the power of Crossplane® for writing Klutch integrations enabling more efficient operations across multiple clusters and cloud providers.

If you're passionate about improving cloud-native technologies or you're looking for a product ownership, we are looking forward to hearing from you!

Your core tasks

Product Strategy and Product Vision
- Act as an interface between our CEO Julian Fischer and the team and work closely with the CEO.
- Operationalize the product strategy for the team.
- Follow an analytical and conceptual approach to developing and prioritizing work items and roadmaps, ensuring that they fit with the product vision.
Backlog Management
- Manage the Product Backlog and prioritize the development of various product features, also based on stakeholder's input and requests.
- Remove obstacles and blockers to avoid jeopardizing release dates or sprint goals.
- Balance feature development work items with research and exploration work items.
Capacity Management
- Collaborate with the developers to gather estimates and set timelines on feature deliverables.
- Estimate available capacity and align it with roadmap goals.
- Monitor progress of ongoing work items, including long and short term product initiatives.
Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration
- Coordinate product releases and communicate product enhancements.
- Balance the vision and needs of the stakeholders with the team to make sure the product is moving in a meaningful direction.
- Discuss stakeholder priorities and translate them into work items for the team to work on.
- Align the roadmap with tasks of other departments like Sales, Marketing, and other tech departments (for other products like a9s Hub).

What we expect

You are passionate about the product and vision and act as a product ambassador within and outside the company, promoting the product and answering questions about it. With your knowledge of software products and modern software architecture, you will steer software development into a successful future.

What you can contribute

Educational background and/or work experience in software development, especially in product offerings that are built to be used by software developers (e.g. cloud services).
Practical experience in the work of a product owner.
Experience in software development using the Kanban methodology.
Strong team and communication skills.
Self-motivated, structured and independent way of working.
Fluent English language skills (written and spoken).

What we are offering

Flexibility
- You can choose your individual workplace and organize your flexible work time. Including working remotely from home (within Germany). Our employees are spread all over Germany and our teams work remotely for the most part.
Further Training
- Comprehensive and individual training. You can choose further training offers, for example via certifications, conferences, meetups, and much more.
International team and English as company language
- Take English or German classes during working time.
- Visa sponsoring for non-EU citizens.
- Exchange cultural habits with your team members since they have various cultural backgrounds.
Community Work, Conferences & Meetups
- We value active participation in the professional community, and encourage attending industry conferences, contributing to meetups, and representing the company. We recognize their importance in fostering innovation, continuous learning, and industry connections, so we provide time and resources for these activities.
- Use the opportunity to produce content such as technical articles, videos or talk proposals featuring your own research, design and development to let the community know about you, your expertise, and the product(s) you’re working on.
Family and Professional Life
- Profit from our family friendly and family-like atmosphere. We also give the opportunity to work part-time, let us know if that’s what you wish during the recruiting process. Since dogs are an integral part of our work environment they are also welcome in our offices. In addition, in our office rooms we offer physical training possibilities and relaxing areas to free your mind.

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About us

We are anynines. 65+ employees from 11 countries. Founded in 2008. Owner managed, not funded. For more than 8 years focused on cloud technologies.

We support companies all over the world with customized development of Cloud Platform Solutions as well as the automation of databases and data services.

Specialized in the planning, construction and operation of modern cloud platforms as well as the automation of databases and data services, we work with cloud technologies such as Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry.

The development of cloud-native web applications with Ruby on Rails & JavaScript as well as the cloud hosting of web applications completes our portfolio,
with which we support national and international companies in their digital transformation.

Our headquarters in Saarbrücken (Saarland) is situated at the campus of the Saarland University - and is easily reachable by public transportation or by car.

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We look forward to hearing from you!

In order to ensure a smooth process: Please send us your application documents in English only.

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Should you have any difficulties in uploading your files, please contact us by mail at hr@anynines.com.

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