Product Strategist

XTEL is a leading provider of advanced, AI-driven solutions to consumer goods companies. We are seeking a highly skilled Product Strategist to join our team and contribute to our mission of accelerating profitable revenue growth and value realization.

• Work closely with our agile teams to design, build, and deliver our products, ensuring they meet the business requirements of our customers.
• Translate and deliver customer business requirements into production software, serving as the go-to person for your product area.
• Collaborate with other product owners and engineering teams to design solutions for business use cases and provide input for the product roadmap.
• Ensure your scrum team(s) have enough business context for the solutions to be built and feel comfortable taking ownership of our solutions.
• Gather requirements, define and communicate backlog based on customer outcomes.
• Specify features and write user stories in terms of outcomes and user flows, aided by visual tools where appropriate, and with clear acceptance criteria.
• Represent the targeted end users in backlog grooming sessions and ensure that complex features are appropriately scoped and broken down in the backlog.
• Work closely with other product owners to ensure your solutions are aligned.
• Work closely with the product design team to design effective end-to-end user experiences.
• Work closely with product architects to prioritize and clarify business value of technical enablers on the backlog for your module.
• Work with the scrum team to adjust where required through scope adjustment or expectation management.
• Build close relationships and rapport with the scrum teams.
• Champion incremental improvement in processes and foster an environment that encourages all team members to contribute.
• Provide support (i.e. last level of support) to the other PO teams when requested, and in alignment with the priorities agreed with the Product manager.

• 2-5 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role in a software company.
• Experience in Trade Promo Management, pricing, promotions, or revenue optimization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Good English mandatory.
• Ability to convey complex concepts to various stakeholders.
• You rather ask "why" than "how" and "what".

• Have affinity with design thinking/user-centered design techniques including methods in user research, usability assessment, interaction design, and visual user interface design.
• Familiarity in Product Management tools.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Familiarity with SaaS platforms and agile methodologies.
• Experienced in gathering and validating functional requirements and user needs with various stakeholders (internally and externally).
• Data Analysis / Economic Analysis / Financial Analysis.
• Strong orientation towards understanding and meeting customer needs.
• Ability to align product strategy with business objectives.
• Ability to constructively explore, inquire, challenge stakeholder ideas.

• A challenging position in a fast-growing AI-driven revenue management company.
• Being a part of a diverse and international team with a strong ownership and can-do mentality.
• The opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the continued growth and development of the organization.
• A cross-functional role that spans across geographies and departments in the company.
• Flexible working with the possibility of hybrid work (the company HQ is based in Bologna).
• We as a team have a passion for learning and growing to be the best version of ourselves.