Product Owner

**Product Owner - Smart Home Digital Services**:**
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ABB Smart Buildings is seeking a Technical Product Manager /Product Owner - Smart Home Digital Services for our Residential Buildings team. In this role, you will be helping people all over the world improve the Smart Home experience in relation to Comfort, Security, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, giving your work a powerful sense of purpose. You are a key member of a global product management organization helping to bring to life the vision & strategy for a comprehensive, IoT & cloud-based smart home ecosystem. The customer-facing Smart Home solutions and cloud portal are the customer touchpoints for a seamless and flexible Smart Home experiences from solutions to on-top services and integrations. A consistent and holistic customer-embracing approach for all stakeholders in the domain of Smart Home is a crucial element of the overall ABB digital strategy. The role will translate the strategic objective into a roadmap and a solution by using customer centric methods to determine evolution steps of the portal and manage them in an agile way. The task initially involves the setup and subsequently the continuous development of the portal together with the responsible teams in R&D and IT/IS. The role will actively pursue internal collaboration with other ABB-initiatives related to cloud-portals and leverage these to the benefit of our customers. The role will also drive external collaboration for enabling customer touchpoints via 3rd party portals. Alongside of the classic tasks of product management, this role requires a strong focus on user growth, customer satisfaction, openness to new business models and digital KPIs. In this role you will be reporting to the Digital Smart Home Global Product Manager. Location: Germany/Italy/Poland

**Your responsibilities**:

- Work in collaboration with other Global Product Managers to define the holistic digital strategy for a comprehensive digital Smart Home offering to optimize customer satisfaction and digitally enhance the product/system/service portfolio.
- Act as an Agile Product Owner who identifies, defines, prioritizes, and manages the backlog of digital features along the digital user journey such as apps, integrations, licensing, digital user flows, digital marketplace, partner pages and overall web representation.
- Translate long term business/product strategies into short term, iterative development cycles and technical requirements to R&D teams.
- Understand jobs to be done, needs (pain points) and stakeholders’ desired outcomes along the value chain.
- Help to uncover and prioritize ideas that deliver differentiated value.
- Follows and understands global standards and customer requirements and their impact on the digital tools. Conducts competitor analyses and evaluates the ABB position.
- Ensure frequent delivery of deployable code (in sprints and MVPs) in relation with the R&D teams.
- Provides requirements to R&D and IT/IS organizations and drives the implementation, testing and launch of solutions.
- Work with cross-functional and cross-geography teams providing product related direction to R&D, design and communication teams.
- Educate internal product, sales and marketing organizations about our Digital Services offering.

**Your background**:

- University degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information technology, Digital Business or User Experience Design.
- At least 2 years relevant experience in product management or as product owner, preferable within an international business environment, preferentially related to SW, IT, IoT, UX.
- Possess a strong technical background of software engineering, system architectures, networking technologies, IoT & cloud technologies. A previous experience in an IT/IoT company or digital startup is preferential.
- Possess a strong customer orientation with the ability to clearly communicate customer needs within the project team.
- Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Lean) and associated DevOps tooling is required.
- Fluent in English with strong written & verbal communication skills and ability to tailor communication level to match the audience type.
- Highly motivated and results oriented individual possessing the ability to proactively lead/drive initiatives with an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Track record of working effectively with internationally distributed teams and different stakeholders, technical and non-technical.

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