Senior Product Owner| French Speaker

Decskill; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill, a growing IT consulting company with a European footprint, seeks a Senior Product Owner who speaks French to join a hybrid project in Portugal. You will define the product vision for the Izly platform and collaborate with CNOUS, CROUS, and business partners.

You will manage the backlog, translate business needs into clear requirements, guide the development team, and ensure quality through testing and documentation. Fluent French is mandatory and English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Product Owner/PM/BA or similar role.
• Strong backlog management in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong decision-making and prioritization abilities.
• Comfortable collaborating with business and technical teams.
• Fluent French (mandatory) and professional English.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and priorities for the Izly platform.
• Serve as the primary functional contact for CNOUS, CROUS, and partners.
• Gather, analyze, clarify, and prioritize business and user requirements.
• Own and manage the product backlog, including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions and provide functional guidance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Coordinate functional testing and validate delivered features before release.
• Maintain functional documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer during the product transition.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile Scrum

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Prioritization

Communication

French language

Job description

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We would like to meet a Senior Product Owner| French Speaker for a project with a hybrid working model:

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and priorities for the Izly platform.
• Serve as the primary functional point of contact for CNOUS, CROUS, and key business partners.
• Gather, analyze, clarify, and prioritize business and user requirements.
• Own and manage the product backlog, including user stories, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions and provide functional guidance throughout the development lifecycle.
• Assess change requests and decide whether they should be implemented, postponed, rejected, or redirected to the new Izly solution.
• Coordinate functional testing and validate delivered features before release.
• Support the functional qualification and prioritization of incidents and operational requests.
• Contribute to impact assessments, effort estimations, reporting, compliance activities, and audits.
• Maintain functional documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer during the product transition.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or in a similar role.
• Strong experience managing product backlogs within Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear, actionable functional requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong decision-making and prioritization abilities.
• Comfortable collaborating with both business and technical teams.
• Fluent French (mandatory) and professional English.

Nice to Have:

Experience in one or more of the following domains would be a strong advantage:

• Digital Payments
• Banking
• FinTech
• Digital Products
• Regulated industries

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us:

• Long-term projects with national and international context
• Opportunities to grow technically and professionally
• A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust
• Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability

Your next challenge might start here.

At Decskill, we are committed to equal opportunities and non-discrimination. We promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, where recruitment and career progression are based solely on talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with human dignity.