Product Owner Material Research (f/m/d)

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a product owner, you ensure that your agile team is efficiently running. Together with the innovation management and team leads you are responsible for the creation of the team backlog. Your key function is to constantly manage, adapt & prioritize this backlog using an agile development approach.

You build transparency and trust within your agile team and communicate effectively with the innovation management, product management and other stakeholders to keep them informed and engaged on the goals and progress with your very good management & communication skills.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Cooperate and collaborate with the Innovation and Product Management and Product Owners of respective product development ART’s to ensure a high grade of alignment between overall backlog and team’s backlog
• Transfer prioritized overall backlog into team backlog and align content, priorities and way of realization with the development team
• Cooperate and collaborate with all interfaces on a regular basis to ensure that all relevant conditions, requirements and changes are transparent and considered at all times
• Manage all resources and partners relevant for the adherence to the development targets in an international and cross collaborative environment
• Align and synchronize team backlog with the cycles of other backlogs

What You Bring

• University degree in material science, physics or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Deep expertise in technologies relevant to material research and development (e.g. additive manufacturing, nano technology, etc.)
• Strong ability to translate innovative material concepts into tangible product ideas, balancing creativity with practical feasibility and market potential.
• Proven capability in managing and steering collaborations with internal R&D teams, external research partners, and industry stakeholders to accelerate innovation and knowledge transfer.
• Agile mindset – Experience in leading agile teams, embrace change, foster collaboration, and drive continuous improvement with the focus on customer value
• Very good communication skills and fluent in English
• Willingness to travel (20%)

About The Team

Our Grid Technology team enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Rewards / Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer‑financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self‑determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the “compatibility of family and work”, we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part‑time work or even a sabbatical

Key Attributes

• Seniority level: Associate
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Research
• Industries: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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