(Senior) Product Owner (m/f/x)

Through reliable and solution-oriented content, we at BurdaForward help people in Germany to live a better life. With our leading publishing brands Focus Online, Chip, TV Spielfilm, Bunte.de, Finanzen100, NetMoms, The Weather Channel, EFahrer.com, Fit for fun, Cinema and Cardscout and the latest technology, we inspire almost 70 percent of all Internet users in Germany (AGOF digital facts) and are a driving force in public debate - also by tradition: BurdaForward is part of the family-owned company Hubert Burda Media.

Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, fulltime, permanent

What you can expect from us...

• You take a key role in the product development of the product vision of Focus Online  

• You put users first. By owning, shaping and driving the product, you always have our users’ need for the feeling of being well informed in mind – thinking multimodality as text, video and audio in product and features  

• You analyze the market and brand environment including competitive analyses and are always up-to-date on the latest trends  

• You create and prioritize the product backlog and oversee the day-to-day execution by defining the needs, coordinating them with the development team, planning the capacities and managing the development process from testing to live operation

• You research and define the needs of our users in a structured way by applying a data-driven approach with quantitative (e.g. A/B tests) and qualitative (e.g surveys) user research methodologies to build and optimize the right product features.

• You are responsible for quality control together with the team; for this you define and test hypotheses iteratively and evaluate the success of an idea based on KPIs to make data-driven decisions

• You collaborate and communicate effectively with stakeholders to drive product development

• You have a hands-on mentality to make the product vision come true

What we would expect from you...

• You have extensive experience in digital product management or related fields (5 years min)

• You love building digital products and have experience with building data-informed text, video or audio digital products

• You have a very good product intuition and a deep understanding of the needs of our users to incorporate these into the product planning

• You have strong conceptual and analytical skills for product planning and are experience in formulating and consistently tracking complex business requirements, defining roadmaps  

• You always focus on the needs of our users and make decisions based on the data you collect for them

• You have extensive experience in leading and developing a strong, cross-functional product team

• You can communicate fluently in English, manage a large group of stakeholders and keep them up to date with the progress

• Your German language skills are at a very good level

• You´re passionate, have strong problem-solving skills and performance and quality are important for you

What we can offer you...

• You create the BurdaForward brand world with content, services and products that make our more than 40 million users happy
• We love entrepreneurship! That's why we support new business ideas financially and make it possible for you to build your own start-up
• You can expect an open, dynamic working environment with flat hierarchies and cooperative team colleagues with lots of good ideas
• Every life is different! We offer you flexible working hours and a flexible work location and as well a subsidy for daycare or kindergarten
• At BurdaForward you can get involved: in cooperation with our parent company, we have launched the PlanetForward sustainability initiative, with which we invite every business unit, every function - from HR to our start-up system - and every employee regardless of job title to make our internal and external activities more sustainable and regenerative.

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