Product Owner

Zohorecruit; Katowice; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking a Product Owner to own direction and delivery of products built on a distributed, multi-service architecture. You’ll translate strategy into a clear backlog for the software engineering team, sitting at the intersection of business goals and technical execution.

The role requires deep systems thinking, strong communication, and fluency with AI tooling to validate requirements, decompose work, and drive outcomes across services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience working within a software development organization.
• Ability to analyze complex, service-based systems and plan delivery.
• A financial, mathematical, or quantitative background.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• AI fluency is required and must be demonstrated across the role.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog, turning business objectives into well-defined requirements.
• Analyze a multi-microservice environment independently and plan sequenced work.
• Break down large initiatives into deliverable increments with cross-service dependencies.
• Partner with engineering to discuss trade-offs, feasibility, and risk.
• Define acceptance criteria and validate delivered work against business and technical needs.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align scope and progress.
• Use data and quantitative reasoning to inform prioritization and measure outcomes.

Skills

Systems analysis

Technical fluency

Logical thinking

Quantitative aptitude

Communication

Backlog management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We are looking for a Product Owner to own the direction anddelivery of products built on a distributed, multi-service architecture. Youwill sit at the intersection of business goals and technical execution,translating strategy into a clear, sequenced backlog that a softwareengineering team can build with confidence. This role suits someone who ishighly logical, detail-oriented, and comfortable reasoning about complexsystems where many moving parts depend on each other.

What You’ll Do

• Ownand prioritize the product backlog, turning business objectives intowell-defined, actionable requirements.
• Analyzea multi-microservice environment independently: map how services interact,identify gaps, surface hidden dependencies, and plan work so that features aresequenced in the right order.
• Break down large initiatives into deliverableincrements, accounting for cross-service dependencies and technicalconstraints.
• Partner closely with engineering, drawing onyour own technical understanding to have credible, precise conversations abouttrade-offs, feasibility, and risk.
• Defineacceptance criteria and validate that delivered work meets both the businessintent and the technical requirements.
• Communicateclearly and consistently with technical and non-technical stakeholders, keepingeveryone aligned on scope, priorities, and progress.
• Use data and quantitative reasoning to informprioritization, measure outcomes, and support decisions.

Core Skills & Abilities

• Systems analysis in a distributed environment. Ability to independently analyze amulti-microservice architecture, identify gaps and dependencies, and producesound, well-sequenced plans.
• Technical fluency. Enough technical knowledge and understanding to communicate effectivelywith the engineering team, understand system design, and reason aboutdependencies and constraints.
• Logical and detail-oriented. A rigorous, structured thinker who catchesedge cases, keeps track of details, and reasons through problems methodically.
• Quantitativeaptitude. A financial and/or mathematical background, comfortable workingwith numbers, models, and data to drive decisions.
• Strong communication. Clear, precise, and collaborative when working with both technicalteams and business stakeholders.
• Toolingand backlog hygiene. Mastery of widely used software development tools suchas Jira/Confluence (or similar) and strong backlog hygiene practices(refinement, prioritization, definition of ready/done).

Requirements

• 3+years experience working within a software development organization (required).
• Demonstratedability to analyze complex, service-based systems and plan delivery aroundtheir dependencies.
• A financial, mathematical, or otherwisequantitative background.
• Strong logical reasoning and attention todetail.
• Experience with API-driven, distributedplatforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communicationskills.
• AI fluency is required. Demonstratedwillingness and ability to engage with AI tooling effectively across therole—from requirements validation and analysis through decomposition anduse-case coverage—while applying sound judgment to its outputs.

Nice to Have

• Backgroundin hospitality, fiscal compliance or financial systems. We value diversebackgrounds; what matters most is a logical, detail-oriented mindset pairedwith software organization experience.
• Prior experience as a Product Owner or ProductManager on technical products.
• Familiarity with agile delivery practices.

What We Value

We care less about a single traditional career path and moreabout how you think. Whether you come from hospitality, finance, engineering,or elsewhere, the right person here is logical, detail-oriented, quantitativelycapable, and able to hold their own in technical conversations while keepingthe product moving forward.