Senior Product Owner "digital workplace"

Novotec Engineering offers comprehensive, high-quality consulting, engineering, and support services in the areas of software development, architecture, and infrastructure. This way, we support our customers in their strategic IT areas.

Our know-how is the most important asset for fulfilling our tasks and achieving our goals. Our many years of professional experience, our competencies in various industries and fields, as well as our commitment to working together create the foundation for success.

Senior Product Owner "digital workplace"

Work location:

Bern region (hybrid remote)

Workload:

80-100%

Type:

Temporary,

Freelance,

Permanent employment

To support a customer project, we are looking for an experienced personality as Senior Product Owner. In this role, you support the team in implementing a future-oriented and digital workplace to enable maximum productivity as well as limitless and location-independent collaboration for employees. The focus of the role is on OPS (Operations), especially ensuring daily operations and communication with various stakeholders.

Tasks

• Leads the Agile Team Members professionally and content-wise, coordinates and prioritizes the team's work
• Responsible for defining, building, and prioritizing the team backlog
• Collaboration with System Architects (Enablers) and other stakeholders
• Actively participates in events/syncs and supports the Product Manager in refining the backlog
• Preparation and execution of PI System Demos with program stakeholders
• Defines acceptance criteria and tests together with the team
• Ensures product availability with appropriate prioritization
• Coordinates technical, customer, and business-related dependencies with other POs
• Helps the team develop Team PI Objectives
• Shapes the Program Vision and Program Roadmap
• Ensures communication and good exchange with other stakeholders in the business
• Central news interface for the specialist department from/to SED for all changes
• Captures operational news and roadmap including updating or archiving (SOW)
• Creates daily news with the most important news, posts weekly summaries of key activities, writes monthly reviews
• Incident controlling, checks daily IC dashboard and sends reminders or escalates tickets if necessary
• Handles tickets with special challenges, analyzes reported tickets and forwards them
• Creates daily KAPA planning with TK regarding recording the daily attendance/absence list (effective/planned)
• Participation in Problem Management Weekly (moderation in rotation)

Requirements

• Solid IT education or degree in computer science, business informatics, engineering, or similar
• Several years of experience as a Product Owner in larger IT projects, preferably workplaces & infrastructure
• Experience in agile methodology (SAFe - Scaled Agile Framework)
• Distinct characteristics and experience as a servant leader with a lean-agile mindset
• Excellent communication, cooperation skills, and experience in stakeholder management
• Competent in writing and prioritizing user stories and iteration increments
• Experience with complaint management, backlog, and statistics review
• Basic knowledge of ITIL or other IT service management frameworks
• Reporting: experience in statistics, reporting tools, and data science
• Fluent in German spoken and written as well as good English skills
• Inner drive for continuous development, ambitious and resilient
• Winning and team-oriented personality

Work location: Bern region (hybrid remote)

Duration: 01.01.2026 to end of 2026 (with option to extend)

Only direct applications will be considered. Thank you for your understanding.

If you feel addressed, we look forward to receiving your complete application documents via the following form:

Application as Senior Product Owner "digital workplace"

Only direct applications will be considered