Junior Product Owner

Your journey ROMEO is the queer company behind the legendary ROMEO dating app, one of Europe’s longest-standing dating platforms for queer communities. We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Product team in Berlin and help shape how ideas and product requirements make their way into the hands of millions of users.

In this delivery-focused role, you will work closely with Product Management, Design, Engineering, QA and BI to turn product priorities into clear, actionable work for our development teams. It is a great opportunity to grow your product skills while taking real ownership of the day-to-day delivery process.

• Your typical day
• •Support the Product Management team in refining product requirements and translating approved PRDs into implementation-ready epics, user stories and tickets.
• •Ensure user stories have clear acceptance criteria and are sufficiently refined before entering development.
• •Maintain and order the backlog according to priorities set by product leadership.
• •Take part in regular and ad hoc meetings to clarify product requirements with development, design and other delivery teams.
• •Support our two-week delivery cycle by ensuring development teams have the information and decisions they need to proceed.
• •Identify missing requirements, dependencies, open decisions and blockers early, and escalate them to Product or Delivery.
• •Work closely with QA to communicate product and release priorities, clarify acceptance criteria, and support defect triage and release-readiness decisions.
• •Support product acceptance and release readiness by checking delivered functionality against agreed requirements and acceptance criteria.
• •Support the BI team by translating product questions, KPIs and tracking needs into clear data requirements.
• •Ensure agreed analytics requirements are captured as part of delivery, including relevant event tracking before work is considered complete.
• •Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation in Jira and Confluence.

• We look for
• •You are passionate about building products for LGBTQ+ communities and interested in contributing to the continued development of ROMEO.
• •You have initial experience in a Product Owner or similar product delivery role, ideally in a B2C environment. Experience in social, dating or community products is a plus. Being familiar with how our product works is a plus.
• •You have experience writing or refining user stories and acceptance criteria.
• •You have a good understanding of Agile product development and ideally hands-on experience with Scrum and/or Kanban.
• •You are comfortable working with Jira and Confluence. Experience with Xray is a plus.
• •You are organised, detail-oriented and reliable in following work through to completion.
• •You proactively follow up on missing information and drive requirements towards clarity.
• •You are based in Berlin or willing to relocate and are happy to work from our Wittenbergplatz office at least three days per week.
• •You have excellent written and spoken English skills, ideally at a native or near-native level.

• What We Offer
• •A hands-on role working on an established European digital product during a significant phase of product and technology transformation.
• •Close collaboration with Product, Design, Engineering, QA and BI,
• •Hybrid working (3 days per week in our Berlin office at Wittenbergplatz)
• •€40 employer contribution towards the Germany Job Ticket
• •EGYM Wellpass (only €20/month employee contribution)
• •In-house German classes
• •Annual learning budget (e.g. for conferences, courses, certifications)
• •International team, English-speaking environment

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