Software 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

Job Responsibilities & Requirements

A Brief Overview

As the Optics Product Manager, you will be the day-to-day product owner for the MiTek Optics business management SaaS solution. You will translate customer, stakeholder and business needs into clear, prioritised product work for agile delivery teams, owning backlog health, feature definition, acceptance criteria, release readiness and feature-level quality. You will work closely with development, user-experience, customer-facing and product portfolio teams to ensure MiTek Optics delivers valuable capabilities for regional customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as Scrum Product Owner for assigned Optics product areas, linking product decisions to team goals and customer outcomes, and aligning and motivating the scrum team through influence.
• Maintain an ordered, understandable backlog, balancing value, risk, dependency, urgency and capacity so work is ready for delivery teams.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, feature requirements and supporting notes that reduce ambiguity for Dev and QA.
• Collect and synthesize input from customers, implementation teams, support, regional stakeholders, telemetry and product usage data, and build domain knowledge across EMEA regional deployment contexts.
• Assess whether increments are ready to ship, making necessary trade-offs while considering customer impact, quality, deployment readiness and stakeholder expectations.
• Validate that delivered functionality solves the intended problem and meets agreed acceptance criteria before release to customers.
• Provide concise, timely status updates and decision rationale, ensuring stakeholders understand priorities, trade-offs and delivery implications.
• Partner with Product Portfolio Management on market-facing context, roadmap direction and go-to-market inputs, contributing product and delivery perspective to those decisions.
• Help internal teams understand new functionality, release changes and the business/customer context behind features.
• Identify and communicate product risks, including compliance, security, operational, financial and reputational risks, and track mitigations where appropriate.
• Use approved AI tools responsibly to accelerate product work while maintaining quality and ownership, validating outputs, and following data-handling rules.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working in a software development environment, ideally in an agile / scrum setting.
• Strong organization and personal accountability, able to shield the delivery team from avoidable churn while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Curiosity and analytical thinking; asking why, challenging assumptions and using evidence to improve decisions.
• Adaptability; able to respond to changing product priorities, customer needs, delivery realities and ways of working.
• Familiarity with software development concepts is beneficial.

Desirable Skills

• Experience as a Scrum Product Owner, Software Product Manager, Business Analyst or closely related role.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or comparable product backlog management tooling.
• Experience working directly with customers or regional implementation teams in business management, construction, manufacturing, ERP, scheduling, logistics or adjacent domains.

Benefits

• Permanent, full-time role, based at MiTek’s Worcester office
• Collaborative, cross-functional environment.
• Opportunity to shape a strategic SaaS product used by customers across EMEA.

MiTek Perks:

• Generous time off including Paid Time Off, 13 annual holidays, and volunteer time off
• Day One Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision Plans
• Family friendly benefits including Paid Caregiver Leave, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Reimbursement
• Performance/Incentivebonuses
• Career advancement, training opportunities, Employee Resource Groups, and tuition reimbursement
• Retirement programs including Matching 401(k) Contributions and Profit Sharing
• Employer paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and LifeInsurance
• myFlexPay partner – allows you to track, manage and access your pay anytime

MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to transform the building industry with better building solutions. In 1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform that provided an affordable and scalable way to manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the balance between off-site and on-site. With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction to transform the way the industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record of continuous growth and innovation.

MiTek is an E-Verify and Drug and Tobacco-Free Workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer; and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or transgender status), age (40 and over), genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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