EMEA SaaS Optics Product Manager

MiTek; Worcester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Annual holidays

Volunteer time off

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Parental leave

Adoption reimbursement

Bonuses

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) matching

Job summary

MiTek, a Berkshire Hathaway company, seeks an Optics Product Manager to own the MiTek Optics SaaS solution for the EMEA region. You translate customer and stakeholder needs into prioritized work for agile teams, owning backlog health, acceptance criteria, and release readiness.

You will collaborate with development, UX and portfolio teams to ensure valuable capabilities for regional customers, writing clear user stories and validating delivered functionality before release.

Qualifications

• Experience in an agile / scrum software development environment.
• Ability to translate customer and stakeholder needs into well-defined backlog items.
• Proven track record writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Product Owner for Optics product areas, linking decisions to team goals and customer outcomes.
• Maintain an ordered backlog balancing value, risk, dependency, urgency and capacity.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria and feature requirements.
• Collect input from customers, implementation teams and regional stakeholders; build domain knowledge across EMEA contexts.
• Assess increments readiness and make trade-offs considering deployment readiness and quality.
• Validate that delivered functionality meets acceptance criteria before release to customers.
• Provide concise status updates and rationale to stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Portfolio Management on market-facing context and roadmap direction.
• Help internal teams understand new functionality and release changes.
• Identify and track product risks including compliance, security, operational, financial and reputational risks.
• Use approved AI tools responsibly to accelerate product work while maintaining quality.

Skills

Agile / Scrum

Product ownership

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Software product management

Tools

Azure DevOps

User stories

Job description

MiTek, a Berkshire Hathaway company, seeks an Optics Product Manager to own the MiTek Optics SaaS solution for the EMEA region. You translate customer and stakeholder needs into prioritized work for agile teams, owning backlog health, acceptance criteria, and release readiness.

You will collaborate with development, UX and portfolio teams to ensure valuable capabilities for regional customers, writing clear user stories and validating delivered functionality before release.