Technical Product Owner in Barcelona

We are looking for a Tech Product Owner for our Cloud Gorvernance team. This team is in charge, among others, of the governance and the financial operations for the whole our organization for our cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Datadog, Grafana Cloud…).

When engineering at this kind of scale and complexity it is crucial that we can optimise and provide oversight of our use of the cloud; our Cloud Governance team’s mission is just that. They are a team of very experienced and versatile engineers who consult and build tools for visualisation, observability, automation and governance that our entire global engineering community can use; empowering them to make effective data driven decisions around cost savings and smart provisioning of the cloud.

Functions

• Oversee the team’s product backlog and maintain and prioritise it using a data-based approach.
• Promote, prepare, and be the guardian of the team’s product roadmaps.
• Partner with the Principal Product Lead and the Product Office to align the product vision and roadmap.
• Champion user-centricity by working with Partners, technical communities, UX, or whoever is needed to understand business and users needs, satisfaction, and how they use the product(s).
• Partner with the Technical Lead to prioritise bandwidth available for product development vs technical backlog.
• Build or guide the building of product/feature prototypes.
• Keep product development aligned with OKRs (both the team’s and tribe’s).
• Set and track KPIs to measure the impact and success of the products in her scope.
• Stay up to date on competitors and benchmark our solutions.
• Stay up to date in the product domain.
• Develop and communicate product vision.
• Plan and follow up on feature/product launches.
• Empower team members by encouraging them to share in these responsibilities and to participate in the decision-making process.

Qualifications

• Experience as a PO (or technical PO) within a team that builds systems that scale
• Ability to inspire and guide teams without directly managing people and provide leadership.
• Understand and be able to communicate with all types of internal and external stakeholders, strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders, including users, customers, engineering teams, and senior management.
• Technical understanding or technical background, ability to grasp technical concepts and engage in discussions with engineering teams regarding architecture, infrastructure, and implementation details.
• Strategic approach and the ability to define team strategy based on long term company goals.
• Willing to learn about the financial / cost side of AWS and other cloud vendors.
• Understand cloud computing concepts and have previous experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, …)
• Proven experience with Product Development, Scrum/Agile methodologies and Lean.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks at once.
• Proactive and can demonstrate relational intelligence.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent team player who is able to work with virtual and global cross functional teams.
• Good written, spoken and interpersonal communication skills.
• Technical and business level English.

Additional information

• An attractive Base Salary.
• Participation in our Short Term Incentive plan (annual bonus).
• An excellent Equity program. This role plays a key part to the success of the organisation and therefore you will receive a piece of Adevinta every 6 months.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with a match from Adevinta.
• Work From Anywhere: Enjoy up to 20 days a year of working from anywhere! Maybe not from the moon - well why not! just make sure you have internet connection!
• A 24/7 Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, because we care.
• Win together, lose together is one of our key behaviours. At Adevinta you will find a collaborative environment with an opportunity to explore your potential and grow.