IT Product Owner (m/w/d)

We’re currently partnering with a leading client in Zürich to find a talented and experienced IT Product Owner (m/w/d) to join their growing team in Zürich.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of impactful technical challenges within a well-established project environment. You’ll work independently on end-to-end initiatives, helping shape the product’s strategic direction while collaborating with a highly supportive and agile team.

Contract Duration: 12 months

Start date: 1st of October 2025

Your Key Responsibilities

• Co-define the Product Vision and Strategy in alignment with business goals and customer needs.
• Establish and communicate a clear Product Goal to guide development efforts.
• Own and refine the Product Backlog, ensuring it is well-structured, prioritized, and aligned with stakeholder expectations.
• Act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and the Agile team, translating business requirements into actionable tasks.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring continuous delivery and improvement.
• Measure product performance using relevant KPIs and metrics to drive data-informed decisions.
• Incorporate stakeholder feedback to continuously enhance the product and deliver maximum value.
• Ensure deliverables meet  quality standards, maintaining consistency and completeness across all outputs.
• Balance long-term vision with budget constraints, making strategic trade-offs where necessary.
• Identify new opportunities for innovation and value creation within the product ecosystem.

What we’re looking for:

• You have hands-on experience in Business Consulting and Data Analytics
•  A background within product life cycle is a big plus (End-to-End)
• You have good communication skills and can adapt your language to the business context
•  You can familiarize yourself with business processes and challenges
• Effective facilitation skills. Should be able to steer group discussions and lead meetings
• Be able to support the business around Data Engineering and Data Science
• Service Management competencies including expectation and risk management
• Knowledge of budgeting and financing of an IT Service
• Close collaboration with the Portfolio Owner to support the products portfolio

 

Personal skills

• Action orientated. Should be able to follow up persistently on feedback to ensure positive outcomes
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., SAFe, Scrum)
• Being data literate
•  Proven experience in leading technical teams, and mentoring and overseeing offshore developers
• Motivated to work in an international working culture (Europe, India, US)
• Coach and help to develop the team
• Translate business requirements into technical tasks
• Fluent in English required, German a plus

Technical skills 

• Experience in data engineering, data modelling and data mining
• Knowledge in data architecture and platform setups
• Knowledge of visualizing and presenting insights from data with analytics and reporting tools such as Power BI or Qlik

 

Additional Information:

•  Workload: 90%
• Start date: 1.10.2025
• Duration: 12 months
• Work location: Zürich
• We offer a modern and attractive working environment with option to work at home and in the office
• Be part of a modern, agile, and international working culture (Europe, India, US)

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