Product Owner

Taleo; Puchong; Remote; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz is seeking a Senior Product Owner to lead the strategy, development, delivery, and ongoing enhancement of mobile applications. You will blend product ownership with technical know-how to drive business value while collaborating with global engineering teams.

You will own the product roadmap, define success metrics, and manage end-to-end product delivery, from discovery to production release, ensuring security, performance, and quality at every step.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, software delivery, or related areas.
• Proven experience delivering mobile application products.
• Evidence of previously launched or enhanced mobile applications in production.
• Strong technical understanding of mobile architecture, APIs, integration, security, performance, and release processes.
• Good knowledge of iOS and Android ecosystems and mobile best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for mobile applications.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize business, customer, and technical requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, product backlogs, and functional requirements.
• Define product objectives, success metrics, KPIs, and expected business outcomes.
• Drive product planning, release management, feature prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Lead end-to-end mobile product development from discovery through production release and optimization.
• Ensure adherence to mobile development best practices, usability standards, platform guidelines, security, performance, and quality expectations.
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams on scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.
• Monitor product performance and user feedback to identify enhancement opportunities

Skills

Product Ownership

Mobile Apps

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Requirements Engineering

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT / CS / BIS / Engineering

Tools

APIs

Job description

Job Description - Product Owner (MER000491D)

Description

About Us

At Mercedes-Benz, we don’t just build cars, we create great software. We develop tomorrow’s mobility together in our product lines, pushing the digitization of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG forward. As a tech company, we are agile, innovative, and always keep our finger on the pulse of change. This is why inner source, FOSS, secure code, DevOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), data analytics, artificial intelligence, and many more are core components of our daily work.

IT is our passion, and we move toward a bright future, sometimes quickly, sometimes creatively but always together.

We believe in integrity, trust, and transparency as part of our flexible work culture, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and the learning process, making mistakes, and achieving continuous progress together in all products we create and develop within the Mercedes-Benz Group.

Our workplace is anywhere* with a fast connection whether remotely at home, at your favorite café, or at our integrated office at Wisma Mercedes-Benz, which comes with an LRT station at its doorstep, an al fresco cafeteria, ample greenspaces, and free parking.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner to lead the strategy, development, delivery, and continuous enhancement of mobile applications. The ideal candidate combines strong product ownership capabilities with a solid technical background in mobile application development, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams while driving business and customer value.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own and manage the product vision, roadmap, and lifecycle for mobile applications.
• Gather, analyze, and prioritize business, customer, and technical requirements.
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, product backlogs, and functional requirements.
• Define product objectives, success metrics, KPIs, and expected business outcomes.

Drive product planning, release management, feature prioritization, and continuous improvement.

• Lead end-to-end mobile product development from discovery through production release and optimization.
• Ensure adherence to mobile development best practices, usability standards, platform guidelines, security,
  performance, and quality expectations.
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams on scalable, maintainable, and high-performing solutions.- Validate requirements against technical feasibility, user needs, delivery constraints, and business value.
• Monitor product performance and user feedback to identify enhancement opportunities

Stakeholder Management & Agile Delivery

• Act as the key liaison across business, development, UX/UI, operations, and external partners.
• Facilitate workshops and alignment sessions with local and global stakeholders.
• Manage expectations, priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.
• Own and prioritize the product backlog and support Agile ceremonies.
• Balance business needs, customer expectations, technical constraints, and delivery timelines

Qualifications

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

Minimum 7-10 years of relevant experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, software delivery, or related areas.

Proven experience managing and delivering mobile application products.

Demonstrable evidence of previously launched, managed, or enhanced mobile applications in production. A portfolio, case study, or equivalent proof may be requested.

Strong technical understanding of mobile architecture, development lifecycle, APIs, integration, security, performance, and release processes.

Good knowledge of iOS and Android ecosystems and mobile application best practices.

Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

Experience working with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.

Preferred

Agile Product Owner certification such as PSPO, CSPO, SAFe PO/PM, or equivalent.

Experience within automotive, mobility solutions, connected services, or customer-facing digital products.

Experience managing enterprise-scale digital products or mobile platform.

Product Management

Roadmaps, prioritization, lifecycle management, requirements engineering, business analysis, product discovery, KPI definition, and Agile delivery.

Technical

Mobile architecture, iOS and Android, APIs, integration, SDLC, security, performance optimization, release processes, and mobile UX/UI principles.

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement, cross-functional collaboration, strategic thinking, facilitation, negotiation, decision-making, and expectation management.

Additional Requirements

• Willing to travel for business when required.
• Comfortable collaborating across international time zones, particularly Germany.
• Flexible to support occasional extended working hours for Germany time-zone collaboration, critical releases, workshops, or project milestones.