Product Owner

Andersen is seeking a Product Owner for a project modernizing a core travel platform and delivering scalable, flexible solutions for booking and itinerary management. The customer is a technology-driven company in the travel sector, providing a comprehensive booking and procurement platform for industry professionals. The project focuses on modernizing a core travel booking and itinerary platform through incremental migration from a monolithic architecture to microservices.

• 5+ years experience as a Product Owner / Business Analyst in software development.
• Strong backlog management and requirements documentation skills (user stories, BRD/FRD, acceptance criteria).
• Ability to structure open-ended problems and ask clarifying questions.
• Technical fluency to work with APIs, integrations, and data models.
• Experience with legacy systems and undocumented codebases.
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders using value, effort, and trade-off evidence.
• Adaptability to shifting priorities driven by business stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies (SAFe is a plus).
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Proficiency with Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• English language proficiency from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice to have:

• Experience in travel tech or fintech.
• Experience with monolith-to-microservices migration.
• Product Owner certifications like CSPO, PSPO.
• Experience with wireframing and diagramming tools (e.g., Figma, PlantUML).
• Familiarity with product analytics and outcome measurement.
• Experience in fixed-price delivery with strict deadlines.

• Owning, prioritizing, and continuously refining the product backlog to maximize business value.
• Running discovery with stakeholders to frame business problems and define success metrics.
• Defining MVP scope and justifying scope with value/effort trade-offs.
• Eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Producing integration-level specifications such as API contracts, sequence diagrams, and data models.
• Scoping functional areas for incremental decomposition of a legacy monolith.
• Maintaining up-to-date product documentation including specifications and release notes.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to clarify scope and manage priorities.
• Aligning with product managers on strategy and execution boundaries.
• Working closely with development, QA, and UX teams during sprint planning, refinement, and reviews.
• Accepting completed work against acceptance criteria and making release-readiness calls.
• Tracking adoption and outcomes using analytics and user feedback.

The offer includes a privacy notice regarding personal data protection in accordance with GDPR, with details on data administrator rights and data processing purposes. Only candidates with Upper-Intermediate or higher English proficiency are considered. The recruitment process complies with relevant employment laws and administrative data handling.