RWS Holdings plc is a unique world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. 

Our purpose is unlocking global understanding. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content. Our clients include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America.  We work in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from 80+offices across five continents.

Now, we are looking for a Product Owner who has a strong background in products and technologies for enterprise, and likes to create products and solutions. 

What can you expect?

You will be working on an innovative Product in the language industry, with a team of developers, a Scrum Master and a Product Manager.

The Product Owner serves as the customer proxy to the Agile team. Working as part of the Product Management team, you will own, define and prioritize the team backlog, establish story acceptance criteria, drive the product’s functionality via prioritized user stories, obtain customer validation and accept stories. Also, you will be ensuring that the solution effectively addresses overall program priorities while maintaining technical integrity. 

What you’ll do:
Actively participate in the Planning process, including:

• Support preparation of presentation materials critical to the release planning process.
• Support the prioritization of Features to ensure business alignment.
• Actively support the Agile Team during iteration planning including:
• Lead the ongoing refinement of the Team Backlog, including
  • Adding new stories or removing stories no longer applicable to the release.
  • Story Prioritization.
  • Sizing of stories.
• Lead story refinement and elaboration, ensuring stories are clear, unambiguous and ready for the team to work on.
• Own definition of story acceptance criteria.
• Accept the final iteration plan during the iteration planning meeting.
• Balance team capacity at the sprint level across % breakdown of new stories, refactoring, improvement activities, and technical debt reduction.

What you need to succeed:

• Demonstrates empathy for customer needs and expectations.
• In-depth understanding of how to communicate customer needs and expectations to various internal stakeholders; owns the voice of the customer.
• In-depth understanding of the sales process and buyer personas, and the customer journey.
• 1 or more years in an industry-related role, e.g., as product owner or product development type roles.
• You worked in an agile environment, and you have experience with scrum ceremonies (reviews, plannings, refinements, etc.).
• Level of English B2 minimum, preferred C1.

Does the position sound interesting? Do you want to know more about it and RWS? Send us your CV together with a short cover letter, so we can better understand your vision of future employment.

We are looking forward to meeting you!