Product Owner - IoT

Incubly; Łódź; On-site; PLN 358,176,000 - 429,811,000; Full time

Job summary

Incubly is seeking a Product Owner to join a Scrum team responsible for developing and evolving cloud-based solutions for a global water technology company. You will own the product backlog, translate needs into epics and user stories, and work across APIs, UIs, integrations, and communication flows to deliver valuable features.

You will collaborate with business, customers, and engineering to define the product vision and roadmap, balance trade-offs, and drive delivery with a strong ownership

Qualifications

• Proven commercial experience as a Product Owner in a Scrum team.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills for evaluating options and making product decisions.
• Proven, structured approach to end-to-end backlog management.
• Experience translating business and customer needs into actionable requirements, epics, and user stories.
• Good understanding of software development processes and ability to work effectively with engineering teams.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs and how they are used in modern digital products.
• Ability to understand and discuss technical constraints without needing to be hands-on.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive communication style, including structuring meetings and setting clear ownership boundaries.
• Comfort working with ambiguity, changing requirements, and shifting priorities.
• Strong ownership mindset and responsibility for product decisions and backlog priorities.
• Ability to balance customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments.
• Good command of English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring the team focuses on the highest-value initiatives.
• Translate business and customer needs into epics, user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Define and communicate product vision and roadmap, balancing business value, customer needs, technical constraints, and delivery capacity.
• Gather, structure, and validate requirements with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Co-design platform functionalities across APIs, UIs, integrations, and communication flows.
• Make informed decisions about scope, priorities, and trade-offs between delivery speed, product value, and technical debt.
• Act as the key link between business and customer stakeholders and the engineering team.
• Structure communication, facilitate alignment, and ensure clear ownership and expectations across stakeholders.
• Lead and participate in Scrum ceremonies: planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives.
• Define acceptance criteria and validate features against requirements.
• Maintain documentation of initiatives, epics, and user stories throughout the lifecycle.
• Produce functional specifications and documentation when needed after feature delivery.
• Track product performance and user feedback after release to inform future priorities.

Skills

Product Owner

Scrum

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

REST APIs

Agile methods

Communication

Agile coaching

Tools

Atlassian stack

Claude

Job description

At Incubly, we believe that great people want to work with great people, so we started building a company that would attract great minds and enable us to achieve our goals without feeling like we\'re just working, but rather having fun. Our mission is to mainly support tech companies and startups (scaleups) in fast, high-quality scaling up of their teams and boosting their product development, testing, and deployment so that we can succeed together.

We are working with a global water technology company focused on solving critical water and infrastructure challenges through innovative technology and digital solutions. They help utilities, industrial companies and communities manage water more efficiently, intelligently and sustainably.

We are looking for a Product Owner to join a Scrum team responsible for developing and evolving modern, cloud-based solutions. You will work at the intersection of business, customers, and engineering — translating needs and ideas into a clear product direction, well-defined requirements, and valuable features delivered by the team.

The role requires strong ownership of the product backlog, excellent stakeholder communication, and the ability to make informed product decisions in a complex technical environment.

Your daily responsibilities

Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that the team is focused on the highest-value initiatives

Translate business and customer needs into clear epics, user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria

Define and communicate product vision and roadmap, balancing business value, customer needs, technical constraints, and delivery capacity

Gather, structure, and validate requirements with customers and internal stakeholders

Co-design platform functionalities across APIs, UIs, integrations, and communication flows

Make informed decisions about scope, priorities, and trade-offs between delivery speed, product value, and technical debt

Act as the key link between business and customer stakeholders and the engineering team

Structure communication, facilitate alignment, and ensure clear ownership and expectations across stakeholders

Lead and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, including planning, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives

Define acceptance criteria and validate delivered features against business and product requirements

Maintain clear and structured documentation of initiatives, epics, and user stories throughout the product lifecycle

Produce functional specifications and documentation when needed after feature delivery

Track product performance and user feedback after release and use insights to inform future priorities and roadmap decisions

Work closely with engineering and other stakeholders to continuously improve the product and ways of working

We need you to have

Proven commercial experience as a Product Owner working in a Scrum team

Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to evaluate options and make clear product decisions

Proven, structured approach to end-to-end backlog management

Experience translating business and customer needs into actionable requirements, epics, and user stories

Good understanding of software development processes and the ability to work effectively with engineering teams

Working knowledge of REST APIs and understanding of how APIs are used within modern digital products

Ability to understand and discuss technical constraints without needing to be a hands‑on developer

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Proactive communication style, including the ability to structure meetings, set expectations, and establish clear ownership boundaries

Comfort working with ambiguity, changing requirements, and shifting priorities

Strong ownership mindset and willingness to take responsibility for product decisions and backlog priorities

Ability to balance customer needs, business goals, technical constraints, and delivery timelines

Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments

Good command of English, both spoken and written

It would be great if you also have

Experience working with IoT platforms or connected products

Experience with data analytics and data-driven products

Experience working with data-intensive platforms, data processing, or data lakehouses

Familiarity with AI-assisted and agentic ways of working and tools

Experience using AI tools such as Claude or similar solutions in your product workflow

Awareness of security considerations in product design

Experience working with cloud-based products and services

Experience working with products involving APIs, integrations, or distributed systems

You don't need to be a software engineer, but you should feel comfortable working with a technically complex product environment.

The product landscape includes:

IoT platforms and connected devices

Data processing and analytics

Data lakehouses

REST APIs and integrations

Atlassian stack

AI-assisted product and engineering workflows

Claude, LLM-Wiki and SDD

Our offer

In addition to great company and challenging projects, we can offer much more, i.e.

Knowledge sharing within our company

Agile and friendly atmosphere, non-violent communication and full respect for diversity

Close collaboration with an international product and engineering organization

Opportunity to work on a product addressing real-world water and infrastructure challenges

Remuneration: 125 -150PLN/h on a B2B contract, depending on experience and product expertise