Product Owner

Zohorecruit; Katowice; Híbrido; PLN 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Zohorecruit is seeking a Product Owner to own the direction and delivery of products built on a distributed, multi-service architecture. You will translate strategy into a sequenced backlog for the engineering team, requiring strong logical, detail-oriented, and quantitative thinking.

The role demands collaboration with engineering, clear communication with stakeholders, and comfort reasoning about complex systems where many moving parts depend on each other.

Formación

• 3+ years experience in a software development organization.
• Ability to analyze complex, service-based systems and plan delivery around dependencies.
• Financial, mathematical, or quantitative background.
• Strong logical reasoning and attention to detail.
• Experience with API-driven, distributed platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• AI fluency is required; ability to engage with AI tooling across the role.

Responsabilidades

• Own and prioritize the product backlog, turning objectives into actionable requirements.
• Analyze a multi-microservice environment, map interactions, dependencies, and plan sequencing.
• Break down large initiatives into deliverable increments with cross-service dependencies.
• Collaborate with engineering, discussing feasibility, trade-offs, and risks.
• Define acceptance criteria and ensure delivered work meets business and technical needs.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on scope and priorities.
• Use data and quantitative reasoning to inform prioritization and measure outcomes.

Conocimientos

Systems analysis

Technical fluency

Detail-oriented

Quantitative aptitude

Communication skills

Backlog hygiene

Educación

Quantitative background (finance/math)

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

Descripción del empleo

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.