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 Find more English Speaking Jobs in France on Arbeitnow