Middle Product Owner

MasterBorn specializes in building software for early-stage startups, collaborating with clients from diverse industries including Fintech, Sportstech, and Medtech in the USA. The company operates with world-class developers and designers, offering a flexible working environment within the Polish time zone.

• 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst of a SaaS product, or managing external clients supporting SaaS product development.
• Experience working in Agile projects.
• Strong ability to structure and visualize ideas in real time.
• Excellent at structuring work and communication.
• Skilled in cooperation, conducting talks, meetings, and workshops with English-speaking clients from the USA.
• Experienced in writing down requirements, creating process flows, and communicating them to the development team.
• Ability to conduct workshops with clients using a wide range of techniques.
• Solid business and product thinking, understanding client's business model, goals, users, and market context.
• Excellent command of Polish and English languages, minimum C1 level.
• Not afraid to question the status quo.
• Able to communicate clearly with assertiveness and a positive attitude.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to understand projects from a high-level and detailed view.
• Open-minded and problem-solving oriented.
• Excellent at self-management and decision-making.
• Comfortable taking ownership of the product and moving it forward proactively.
• Adaptable communicator able to adjust communication detail depending on the audience.
• Open to learning from teammates and co-workers.

• Act as a trusted product partner to the Client's Product Owner, helping translate business goals into product direction, priorities and actionable decisions.
• Understand the client's business model, goals, product strategy, users, market context, and success metrics, and ensure the team understands not only what we are building, but why it matters.
• Work at the discovery and delivery stages of the product implementation.
• Manage the product roadmap & product backlog, always connecting roadmap and feature decisions to measurable business and user outcomes rather than just output.
• Prepare the requirements so they are clear to the team.
• Ensure timely delivery of the product.
• Negotiate the scope and explain technical aspects to the client.
• Advise clients on product decisions by clearly communicating trade-offs between business value, user needs, technical complexity, risk, and time to market.
• Constructively challenge client requests, ask strong questions, and recommend alternatives instead of simply executing what the client asks for.
• Work with a scrum team (cross-functional teams of 4-12).
• Collect and provide feedback for your team.
• Proactively identify product opportunities, risks, and gaps, and bring recommendations to the client rather than waiting for requirements.
• Facilitate conversations toward clear decisions, especially when stakeholders disagree or requirements are ambiguous.