Technical Product Owner Matrix (m/f/d)

Famedly GmbH; United States; À distance; USD 100 000 - 145 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

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

Résumé du poste

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.

Responsabilités

• 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.

Connaissances

Backlog prioritization

Matrix knowledge

Agile methods

Stakeholder communication

English language

German language

Regulated environment

Jira

Outils

Jira

Description du poste

Famedly builds secure, open communication solutions for healthcare. Based on the Matrix protocol, we connect hospitals, medical practices, care providers and health insurers, including as a provider of the German TI-Messenger.

Your role

As Technical Product Owner Matrix (m/w/d), you own the "how" and "when" for our Matrix homeserver team. You combine user needs and specifications into a clear, prioritized backlog and make sure the team delivers reliably, release after release.

Your 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.

What you should bring

• Proven 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

Nice to have

• Knowledge of the German telematics infrastructure (TI) or gematik specifications

Please note

For this position, we can currently only consider applications from candidates residing in Germany or another EU/EEA country.

Why you should work at Famedly

• Work at a fast-growing startup in an exciting phase - Since 2019 we have grown rapidly and we have big plans ahead! Famedly brought the first gematik-certified TI-Messenger to market, and with your help we will continue to evolve it and the platform behind it.

• Meaningful ownership - Take responsibility for software people rely on every day in critical environments.
• Modern AI tooling - Use up-to-date coding agents and models without having to count tokens.
• Your perfect work-life balance - With remote work and flexible hours, you decide when and where you are most productive. You also have the option to work from our office in Berlin. Your choice: set up your home office or use a co-working space!
• Attractive conditions - A permanent contract with competitive compensation, a training budget, work equipment of your choice, and 28 vacation days per year.
• Flexible Benefits with Probonio - You receive a monthly wellbeing budget that you can use for vouchers from a wide range of food, mobility, retail, and lifestyle partners or for a discounted membership with Urban Sports Club.
• A diverse and international team - We value an open mindset and a diverse, inclusive culture where everyone feels welcome.
• Regular team events - Workshops, team-building activities, virtual game nights, and company events such as our Summer and Winter Summit.

We are a proud equal-opportunities employer and place great value on mutual tolerance and acceptance in a diverse environment. Everyone receives the same opportunities in our application process. We look forward to hearing from you!