Technical Product Owner - Matrix & AI, Remote

Famedly GmbH; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Office in Berlin (optional)

Training budget

Company equipment of your choice

28 vacation days per year

Wellbeing budget via Probonio

Team events

Job summary

Famedly is seeking a Technical Product Owner Matrix to own the how and when for the Matrix homeserver team. You will translate user needs into a prioritized backlog and guide the team through two-week release cycles, balancing features, bugs, and technical debt with clear acceptance criteria.

Fluent in English and German, you will align sales, customers, and engineering while collaborating with other teams.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Owner for a technical product, such as backend services, protocols or APIs.
• Solid understanding of Matrix or comparable federated communication systems, homeservers, end-to-end encryption and APIs.
• Experience working with specifications and in a regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience with Jira and agile methods.
• Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent English and German language skills.

Responsibilities

• Backlog: own and prioritize the team backlog, balancing new initiatives with operational and maintenance work, and weighing features, bugs and technical debt together with the team.
• Requirements engineering: structure user stories and needs into epics and tasks with clear requirements while balancing the solutions against the specifications of the Matrix protocol and the TI-Messenger.
• Delivery: steer delivery using agile methods; refine tasks with the team, validate implementations and ensure urgency is balanced against a focused backlog.
• Releases: own release planning and go-live readiness within our two-week release train.
• Stakeholders: align requests from sales, customers and engineering, coordinate dependencies with the other product teams, infrastructure and support, communicate decisions and trade-offs early, and elevate to PM or Head of Product where needed. Give interested parties insights into plans and goals while keeping expectations within reasonable bounds.
• Engineering collaboration: work closely with engineers at eye level, understand technical trade-offs on the Matrix homeserver, write clear and testable acceptance criteria, and protect the team's focus.
• AI: use AI as a natural part of your work, for example for spec analysis, writing stories and test cases.

Skills

Backlog prioritization

Matrix knowledge

Agile methods

Stakeholder communication

English language

German language

Regulated environment

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Famedly is seeking a Technical Product Owner Matrix to own the how and when for the Matrix homeserver team. You will translate user needs into a prioritized backlog and guide the team through two-week release cycles, balancing features, bugs, and technical debt with clear acceptance criteria.

Fluent in English and German, you will align sales, customers, and engineering while collaborating with other teams.