Product Owner – B2B SaaS (m/f/d)

CALIMA Safety GmbH; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Remote/hybrid/office Berlin

Competitive salary + bonus

30 vacation days

Meal allowances

Gift cards

Apple devices

Team events

Job summary

CALIMA Safety GmbH, a Berlin-based B2B SaaS startup, seeks a Product Owner to own operational product responsibility for Cloud, iOS/Android apps, and Platform. You will organize backlogs, write clear tickets with acceptance criteria, and align deadlines with Head of Tech and remote teams.

The role offers growth toward strategic product management and a strong focus on reliability and quality. In this early Hire, you will bridge the tech and business sides, shaping the roadmap, market, and

Qualifications

• Several years of experience as a product owner, product manager, or technical project manager in software development.
• Experience with backlog management, prioritization, sprint and release planning, and agile meetings.
• Clear, complete tickets with acceptance criteria that developers can start immediately.
• Technical understanding to evaluate effort and solutions for web and mobile products.
• Experience with ticketing systems such as GitHub Projects and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer success and sales inputs into epics and tickets with clear acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog per team and ensure tickets are well defined before development.
• Define the underlying problems from customer feedback and shape feature concepts and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with developers to evaluate solutions, effort, and risk; engage with customers before implementation.
• Coordinate with Sales, Customer Success, and QA on status, priorities, and release notes.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methods

Backlog management

Sprint planning

Release planning

Ticketing systems

GitHub/Jira

English documentation

German language skills

Job description

About us

CALIMA is a Berlin-based B2B SaaS startup whose mission is to make workplace safety simpler, more reliable, and more effective through digital and innovative solutions. Our software helps companies ensure that employees working alone receive assistance quickly in an emergency. CALIMA is used by over a thousand companies and protects thousands of employees every day.

We are a small, ambitious team with high standards for quality. We take a pragmatic, product-focused approach and have short decision-making chains. We’re looking for people who take responsibility, contribute ideas, and actively improve our processes.

Your role

As Product Owner, you will be our first full-time employee in product management and will assume operational product responsibility for our development teams: Cloud, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and Platform.

Currently, the backlog, tickets, and planning are managed directly by the Head of Tech. Your role is to ensure that the teams are consistently working on the right things: a well-organized backlog, clearly defined tickets, an effective refinement process, and realistically aligned deadlines. You’ll serve as the link between the Head of Tech, the small, remote development teams, QA, Sales, and Customer Success.

We develop a safety-critical product. For us, reliability and quality take precedence over the number of features.

Looking ahead, you can further develop your role toward strategic product management and actively help shape areas such as the roadmap, market, and product strategy.

Your Responsibilities

Backlog and Tickets

• You'll translate requirements from Customer Success, Sales, and Support into epics and tickets and resolve any open questions.
• You maintain a prioritized backlog for each team and ensure that only clearly defined tickets are sent to development.
• You write tickets that include the goal, acceptance criteria, and scope in such a way that the development and QA teams can get started without needing to ask for clarification.

Concept

• Based on customer feedback and requests from Sales and Customer Success, you determine what the underlying problem is and which improvement will yield the greatest benefit.
• You develop the conceptual framework for features—including the target vision, workflows, and edge cases—before they are turned into tickets.
• You'll work with the developers to evaluate different solutions based on their benefits, effort, and risk.
• You'll work with Customer Success and Sales to talk with customers and review concepts with them before we implement them.

Planning and Control

• You'll work with the Head of Tech to prepare the quarterly plan and strike a balance between capacity and deadlines.
• You'll facilitate Refinements, take over facilitating our team weekly meetings after your onboarding, keep track of action items, and further develop product coordination and the associated processes.
• You keep the boards up to date, identify roadblocks early on, and escalated them to the right person.

Interfaces

• You are the main point of contact for Sales, Customer Service, and QA regarding questions about status and priority.
• You proactively keep Sales and Customer Success informed about the status of a release and any delays.
• You decide what goes into the user manual and customer documentation.
• You'll coordinate our external app developers at the ticket level.
• You provide the content for release notes and team testing.

Your First Few Months

• During your first few weeks, you'll get to know the team, the product, and the customers, and you'll gradually take over the teams' backlog and tickets.
• After that, you'll facilitate refinements and weekly meetings and work with us to establish a planning cycle that makes progress measurable.
• After about three months, you'll be in charge of the day-to-day product work, and the Sales and Customer Success teams will know at all times where a release stands.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Several years of experience as a product owner, product manager, or technical project manager in software development, ideally in a B2B SaaS or startup environment.
• Proficiency in agile methods, as well as experience in backlog management, prioritization, sprint and release planning, and facilitating agile meetings.
• You write tickets that developers are happy to implement: clear, complete, and with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Sufficient technical understanding to evaluate the effort involved and proposed solutions; experience with web and mobile products is a plus.
• Experience with ticketing systems such as GitHub Projects, Jira, or similar tools.
• A structured, self-directed approach to work within a remote team and clear communication between the tech and business sides.
• Quality standard: You'd rather remove scope early than have to postpone a release at the last minute.
• Active use of AI tools in day-to-day work, such as for drafting tickets, conducting analyses, and creating documentation.
• Excellent German language skills and good English language skills; our technical documentation is in English.

What we offer you

• Meaningful Work with Impact: A Safety-Related Product That Protects People
• Real responsibility: You'll shape our product development from the ground up
• Flexible work arrangements: remote, hybrid, or at our office in Berlin-Kreuzberg
• A fair overall package: a competitive salary plus a performance-based bonus
• 30 vacation days per year
• Tax-free benefits such as meal allowances and gift cards
• Flat hierarchies and quick decisions
• An open and authentic corporate culture, characterized by trust, respect, and teamwork
• High-quality equipment with Apple devices
• Joint team events, such as our annual company retreat or our Christmas party