Junior Product Owner

<br><strong>Your journey</strong><p>ROMEO is the queer company behind the legendary ROMEO dating app, one of Europe’s longest-standing dating platforms for queer communities. We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Product team in Berlin and help shape how ideas and product requirements make their way into the hands of millions of users.<br><br>In this delivery-focused role, you will work closely with Product Management, Design, Engineering, QA and BI to turn product priorities into clear, actionable work for our development teams. It is a great opportunity to grow your product skills while taking real ownership of the day-to-day delivery process.</p><br><strong>Your typical day</strong><p><ul><li>Support the Product Management team in refining product requirements and translating approved PRDs into implementation-ready epics, user stories and tickets.</li><li>Ensure user stories have clear acceptance criteria and are sufficiently refined before entering development.</li><li>Maintain and order the backlog according to priorities set by product leadership.</li><li>Take part in regular and ad hoc meetings to clarify product requirements with development, design and other delivery teams.</li><li>Support our two-week delivery cycle by ensuring development teams have the information and decisions they need to proceed.</li><li>Identify missing requirements, dependencies, open decisions and blockers early, and escalate them to Product or Delivery.</li><li>Work closely with QA to communicate product and release priorities, clarify acceptance criteria, and support defect triage and release-readiness decisions.</li><li>Support product acceptance and release readiness by checking delivered functionality against agreed requirements and acceptance criteria.</li><li>Support the BI team by translating product questions, KPIs and tracking needs into clear data requirements.</li><li>Ensure agreed analytics requirements are captured as part of delivery, including relevant event tracking before work is considered complete.</li><li>Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation in Jira and Confluence.</li></ul></p><br><strong>We look for</strong><p><ul><li>You are passionate about building products for LGBTQ+ communities and interested in contributing to the continued development of ROMEO.</li><li>You have initial experience in a Product Owner or similar product delivery role, ideally in a B2C environment. Experience in social, dating or community products is a plus. Being familiar with how our product works is a plus.</li><li>You have experience writing or refining user stories and acceptance criteria.</li><li>You have a good understanding of Agile product development and ideally hands-on experience with Scrum and/or Kanban.</li><li>You are comfortable working with Jira and Confluence. Experience with Xray is a plus.</li><li>You are organised, detail-oriented and reliable in following work through to completion.</li><li>You proactively follow up on missing information and drive requirements towards clarity.</li><li>You are based in Berlin or willing to relocate and are happy to work from our Wittenbergplatz office at least three days per week.</li><li>You have excellent written and spoken English skills, ideally at a native or near-native level.</li></ul></p><br><strong>What We Offer</strong><p><ul><li>A hands-on role working on an established European digital product during a significant phase of product and technology transformation.</li><li>Close collaboration with Product, Design, Engineering, QA and BI,</li><li>Hybrid working (3 days per week in our Berlin office at Wittenbergplatz)</li><li>€40 employer contribution towards the Germany Job Ticket</li><li>EGYM Wellpass (only €20/month employee contribution)</li><li>In-house German classes</li><li>Annual learning budget (e.g. for conferences, courses, certifications)</li><li>International team, English-speaking environment</li></ul></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.fr">Jobs in France</a> on Arbeitnow</a>