Technical Product Owner

Mindbox is a tech-driven company connecting top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe.

• 3–7 years of professional experience as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, Value Stream Lead, or similar senior technology role.
• Proven ownership of a technical product, platform, or service in a large-scale, complex environment.
• Experience with on-premises technology platforms, preferably across Linux and mainframe environments.
• Strong understanding of product ownership principles throughout the full lifecycle, from roadmap definition to continuous improvement.
• Hands-on experience managing backlogs, epics, and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria and prioritisation of technical debt.
• Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, manage capacity and dependencies to deliver agreed outcomes.
• Practical knowledge of operational processes including incident, problem, and change management, monitoring, resilience, and continuity.
• Solid grasp of risk, control, audit, and compliance principles, gained preferably in regulated industries.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and business contexts.
• Proactive, pragmatic, and delivery-oriented, focusing on achieving measurable outcomes.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with enterprise scheduling, workflow orchestration, and batch automation capabilities.
• Hands-on experience with BMC Control-M and/or IBM Workload Scheduler (IWS).
• Understanding of mainframe scheduling concepts such as job dependencies, calendars, alerts, and recovery procedures.
• Knowledge of integration patterns, APIs, file-based and event-driven interfaces.
• Experience working with Agile or Lean delivery frameworks.
• Ability to define and track OKRs, KPIs, and service health metrics.
• Background within financial services or regulated enterprise environments.

• Own the vision, roadmap, and target outcomes for the Scheduling and Workload Automation (SWA) capability across build, run, and continuous improvement.
• Manage demand intake and prioritisation, balancing feature delivery, resilience, service improvements, and technical debt.
• Represent user and stakeholder needs from engineering, operations, and scheduling communities in product planning and decision-making.
• Define and track measurable outcomes, including OKRs, KPIs, and SLAs to demonstrate value and performance.
• Translate requirements into clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional specifications.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and service management teams to deliver roadmap commitments.
• Oversee platform lifecycle management, including upgrades, migrations, onboarding, and integration activities.
• Collaborate with operations and service management to improve incident, problem, and change management performance.
• Lead initiatives to enhance automation, self-service, reliability, capacity, and resilience of batch and workload environments.
• Identify and manage dependencies and risks across enterprise platforms, applications, and stakeholders.
• Ensure aligned governance with risk, security, and compliance frameworks, including controls and resilience standards.
• Shape and continuously improve the operating model and ways of working for managing SWA capabilities effectively.