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The Digital Product Expert is responsible for the design development implementation and management of FSCs digital products including the FSC Trace blockchain platform. This role offers a unique career opportunity that has a direct impact on sustainable forest management and requires strong handson leadership in defining and executing product roadmaps managing crossfunctional teams interfacing with business stakeholders and ensuring alignment across IT leadership architecture engineering and other team members. The Digital Product Expert will own the entire product lifecycle lead agile design and development drive efficiencies and ensure that FSCs digital products deliver value and quality across the organization and the external stakeholders that it serves.

Main Roles & Responsibilities

Define Digital Product Roadmaps

• Develop and maintain comprehensive digital product roadmaps through direct engagement with FSC business and IT management teams while ensuring successful selection procurement hosting and support of new products.

Engage and Manage Architecture Engineering and Infrastructure Teams

• Collaborate with internal and external architecture and engineering teams to prioritize and optimize resources schedules and deliverables that align with broader program objectives using proven agile techniques.

Refine and Define Product Requirements

• Lead the iterative refinement and definition of digital product requirements balancing needs of diverse stakeholders with engineering feasibility and strategic objectives.

Drive Implementation and DecisionMaking

• Oversee the delivery and closure of product implementation decisions ensuring continual alignment between business leaders and delivery teams.

Develop Operational Processes

• Create and own modern agile processes and procedures to guide daily operations driving clarity efficiency and consistency in digital product development and management.

Adapt Existing Processes

• Continuously adapt existing processes to meet evolving organizational and product needs with a focus on speed quality efficiency and effectiveness.

Prioritize Outcomes and Impacts Over Ownership

• Foster a collaborative environment where the integrated team prioritizes outcomes to ensure that collective efforts lead to impactful high quality and more efficient results.

Communicate with Precision

• Drive alignment across teams through clear and precise communication ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and engaged.
• Effectively collaborate build relationships and influence team members across the organization to achieve program objectives.

Your profile

Education and Training

• University degree or equivalent training in digital product management computer science architecture engineering information technology business administration or related disciplines.
• Training and certifications in digital product management (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner Agile Product Owner) are a plus.

Working Experience Style and Skills

• At least 5 years of professional experience in digital product management with a strong track record in leading the agile development and implementation of digital solutions.
• Experience in managing complex projects that require coordination across multiple internal and external stakeholders and teams.
• Strong understanding of blockchain / related technology and its application in supply chain management is preferred.
• Proven ability to design develop and implement operational processes that drive efficiency and clarity.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to a diverse technical and nontechnical audience.

Leadership

• Demonstrated ability to lead crossfunctional teams and drive product initiatives.
• Maintains a deep understanding of the technical and regulatory aspects of digital products enabling informed discussions and guidance with architectural and engineering teams and meaningfully contribute to solution designs and problemsolving.
• Ability to see the big picture and align digital product initiatives with FSCs longterm goals.
• Talent in articulating complex ideas and strategies in a clear concise manner to diverse audiences e.g. leadership internal teams external stakeholders.
• Strong sense of accountability to take responsibility for the success and failures of digital products ensuring transparency and ownership at every stage.
• Ability to pivot and adjust strategies in response to changing organizational needs and conditions stakeholder needs or technological advancements.
• Strong ability to encourage teams autonomy create clarity in expectations and empower team members to take ownership of their individual work contributions while aligning with related work streams to ensure high quality outcomes.
• Drive to ensure and insist that all digital product decisions are made with a high degree of integrity aligning with the FSCs values and ethical standards.

Technical Skills

• Proficient in digital product lifecycle management and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Knowledge of blockchain fundamentals with a focus on traceability solutions.
• Familiarity with data management and cybersecurity best practices in application and service design and development.
• High proficiency and handson experience in modern mobile and web application development (e.g. Figma and / or Adobe XD crossplatform / Flutter DevOps AI / ML APIs Cloud databases Blockchain as a Service CRM integrations multilingual / machine translation service integrations Agile Scrum Asana etc.

Language and Communication Skills

• Fluency in English; proficiency in Spanish and / or French is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills capable of driving alignment and collaboration across diverse teams.

Others

• Commitment to FSCs mission and values.
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity in a diverse global team setting.

Why us

Why Join FSC in Bonn Germany

• Be part of a globally recognized organization at the forefront of sustainable forestry and contribute to the mission to help protect the worlds forests.
• Play an active role in the FSC global community of 400 forest stewards who come together inperson at least once a year.
• Benefit from crosscultural collaboration and networking opportunities by working in a dynamic inclusive and diverse international culture with over 60 nationalities represented under one roof.
• Enjoy comprehensive benefits including relocation assistance if needed and investment in training and development opportunities (e.g. LinkedIn Learning Learning Lunches and more) to advance your career.
• Explore the vibrant federal city of Bonn home to Beethoven Haribo and the beautiful Rhein River promenade including many urban parks and close access to nature. As Germanys UN City and second capital Bonn is an international city with a rich cultural heritage recently celebrating its 2000th anniversary. Learn more about the city or take a virtual stroll.
• Embrace worklife balance : beyond Bonns borders unlock Europes wonders with 30 working days of vacation at your disposal. Whether its skiing in the Swiss Alps or basking in the sun on Mediterranean shores your European adventures await.

Ready to make a difference Join FSC and help shape a sustainable future. Apply now with your resume and cover letter showcasing your achievements and how you can contribute to FSCs mission.

The Fine Print

• Working Hours : Full time 40 hours per week.
• Duration of Employment : Temporary contract 2 years (extension possible subject to satisfactory performance).
• Starting Date : As soon as possible.

How to Apply

Ready to make a difference Join FSC and help shape a sustainable future. Dont delay apply now!

• Please apply by submitting your CV in English.
• Please do not send any photos of yourself.
• The deadline for applications is 9 April 2025.

For FSC inclusiveness and diversity are important values. As such we welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and are entirely committed to consider all qualified applicants regardless of race gender sexual orientation religion ethnicity age and disability.

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About us

Welcome to FSC!

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a globally recognized nonprofit organization at the forefront of promoting sustainable forestry. With over 150 million hectares of certified forests and a trusted reputation among NGOs consumers and businesses FSC is leading the way in ensuring the longterm health and resilience of the worlds forests.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills