DEFTEC delivers mission-critical solutions through skillfully delivered services and innovative products. The company is inspired by its clients' critical missions and driven to provide the most effective solutions to execute their missions, operational challenges, and requirements.
Requirements
- Experience in designing innovative digital products/systems in a NATO or National defense institution. Proven experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, and prioritization.
- Familiarity with technical concepts to effectively communicate with development teams (APIs, architectures, CI/CD, cloud-native basics).
- Experience collaborating with high-performing Agile/DevSecOps development teams (standups, retrospectives, design reviews, user research, demos).
- Experience with planning and execution of product information campaigns using modern communication channels (Twitter, blogs, etc.).
- Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or equivalent certification.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical fluency when collaborating with development teams to ensure alignment on architecture, APIs, CI/CD, and other delivery pipelines.
- Manage product backlogs, including writing acceptance criteria and ensuring proper prioritization.
- Collaborate closely with Agile/DevSecOps teams to ensure incremental and user-centric delivery.
- Lead iterative planning meetings to ensure stories are accurately estimated and prioritized to best fit user needs.
- Develop and maintain product roadmaps that support both short-term objectives and long-term strategies.
- Translate user needs into business value and balance priorities between user requirements and organizational benefit.
- Facilitate product information campaigns using modern communication channels (e.g., Twitter, blogs, community forums).
Other
- Ensure the product direction provides value to the end user and aligns with organizational goals.
- Drive the product vision and communicate it effectively to stakeholders and development teams.
- Coordinate and lead productive meetings (standups, retrospectives, demos, reviews) that drive product outcomes.
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for product management and apply lessons learned to ongoing projects.
- University degree in ICT, Business, or a related discipline.
