Technical Product Owner (m/w/d)

Nortal; Germany (OH); Hybrid; USD 68,587 - 102,880; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Mentor during onboarding

Time-off compensation

Sabbatical option

Job summary

Nortal is hiring a Product Owner to lead requirements management and define the product vision for clients and an international, cross‑functional team in Germany. You will create roadmaps, backlog items, user stories, and acceptance criteria while coordinating with multiple teams, ensuring high business value, and aligning with client needs.

The role supports working from offices in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, or Cologne, or remotely within Germany, with travel typically once per month.

Qualifications

• Completed degree in economics, business administration, or business informatics.
• Experience as Product Owner in software development with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management in German and English.

Responsibilities

• Own requirements management with the client and define software scope.
• Define product vision for client and international team.
• Create roadmap, backlog, write user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Collaborate with teams to design high-value solutions and manage dependencies.

Skills

Product Owner

Agile

Requirements engineering

Cross-functional teams

German (C1)

English (C1)

Java

x-road

VM

Education

Economics/Business Administration degree

Business Informatics degree

Tools

x-road

Docker

VM deployment

Job description

Overview

Go for IT – join our global mission! Does your heart beat for modern technical solutions and software development? Then you’re exactly right with us – together with our customers, we are shaping digital transformation and creating efficient, citizen‑oriented public administration. Would you like to help shape this transformation, and do fairness, empathy, and optimism belong to your value system? Then become part of our cross‑functional team.

This position can be filled full‑time or part‑time on a permanent basis. You can choose whether you want to work from our offices in Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, or Cologne, or remotely from within Germany, but please note that this role would involve some occasional travel, typically once per month.

About Nortal

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organisations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI‑driven transformation era, helping organisations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business‑critical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• You take responsibility for requirements management together with our client and advise them on the software’s functional scope.
• You define the product vision for the client and your international, cross‑functional team.
• You create the roadmap, plan, maintain, and prioritize the backlog; you write user stories, define acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Together with your team, you design pragmatic solutions with the highest business value for our clients.
• You coordinate with other teams and product owners, identify dependencies between projects, and incorporate these into your roadmap.
• You create story maps to keep the “big picture” in view and make it transparent to your project team.
• You analyze business processes with the client and propose improvements.
• As a Product Owner in an international, cross‑functional team, you are primarily responsible for communication within the team, the company, and with the client in both German and English.

Qualifications

• A completed degree in economics, business administration, (business) informatics, or a comparable qualification, ideally with several years of experience as a Product Owner in software development.
• Experience working with internationally distributed, cross‑functional teams.
• Independent, committed, and structured working style.
• Knowledge of requirements engineering and a broad toolkit of methods.
• Technical knowledge of Java, x‑road, VM/docker deployment.
• Strong communication skills and negotiation abilities in German (C1) and English.
• Strong conflict management skills.
• Agile mindset and openness to change.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on large‑scale public sector projects with complex and regulated environments.

Why Nortal?

You’ll find the ideal opportunity with us to grow and thrive in an international and expanding company.

To support a healthy work‑life balance, we offer flexible working hours, time‑off compensation, and the option of a sabbatical.

During your onboarding, you will be supported closely by a personal mentor.

Recruitment Process

• Interview with recruiter (in English, 45 min)
• Subject matter interview with Hiring Manager (in German, 60 min)
• Hospitation (in German, on‑site or online, 4 hours)

Interested? Apply today and start your career at Nortal.