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Mission:
We’re hiring a senior Product Owner to lead product direction and delivery for a software platform that interfaces with, and controls hardware devices. You’ll own the roadmap and backlog across a couple of teams, aligning priorities, dependencies, and releases to deliver reliable, end-to-end system. You’ll work closely with software and hardware engineering teams and business stakeholders to translate strategy and customer needs into clear requirements, measurable goals, and executable plans; while ensuring delivery meets regulatory and compliance expectations (e.g., traceability, validation, documentation, audit readiness).
What will be your responsibilities:
- Own and evolve the product vision, roadmap, and priorities for a software platform that interfaces with, and controls hardware devices.
- Manage and continuously refine the backlog across multiple teams, aligning scope, sequencing, and dependencies.
- Collaborate with architects and tech leads on solution direction, trade-offs, and sequencing; to ensure architectural runway, integration considerations, and non-functional requirements are reflected in the roadmap and backlog.
- Continuously assess and prioritize platform health work (e.g., stability, performance, maintainability, reliability) alongside new capabilities, making transparent trade-offs with stakeholders and reserving capacity for refactoring and risk reduction.
- Own what goes into the Sprint, ensuring scope and priorities are clear, achievable, and aligned with delivery goals.
- Translate business and customer needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.
- Drive planning and execution with engineering teams (software, hardware and embedded/firmware), ensuring end-to-end system behaviour is understood and delivered.
- Act as the primary interface between engineering and business stakeholders, facilitating trade-offs, expectation management, and timely decision-making.
- Ensure delivery in a regulated environment: maintain requirements traceability, support risk management, ensure documentation/validation readiness, and help teams stay audit-ready.
- Coordinate release planning across teams, including change control, versioning, and communication of scope and timelines.
- Monitor product performance and quality signals (reliability, diagnostics/telemetry, incidents/defects) and steer continuous improvement.
Profile and requirements:
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Product Owner (or closely related product role) delivering complex, technical software products.
- Strong software/computer science background (or a closely related technical field) and the ability to engage deeply with engineering discussions.
- Experience working with 3rd party software integration and API management.
- Proven track record of supporting multiple teams simultaneously and managing cross-team alignment and delivery.
- Comfortable collaborating with both hardware and software engineering teams, and communicating effectively with business stakeholders at different levels.
- Experience delivering in regulatory/compliance-driven environments, with understanding of practices such as traceability, verification/validation, risk-based thinking, documentation, and release governance.
- Strong product execution skills: prioritization, writing high-quality user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and driving iterative delivery.
- Experience with hardware-adjacent software domains (e.g., IoT, industrial systems, robotics, automotive, medical devices) is a strong plus.
- Clear communicator with a pragmatic, structured way of working and a bias for outcomes.
- Certifications are a plus, but real-world product ownership experience matters most.
- Fluent in English; Portuguese is a plus.
Education background:
BSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related technical field.
What we have to offer you:
- An excellent work environment and an opportunity to make a difference;
- Salary Compatible with the level of proven experience.
Do you want to know more about us ?
Visit our LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekever/