Product Owner/Squad Lead (m/f/d)

We are talentsconnect.

We connect talent and companies through technology.
We have been developing software solutions for personnel marketing and HR departments for over ten years. In doing so, we recognized how much companies are nowadays dependent on digital job exchanges and headhunters. Every year companies pay more money to middlemen to offer their jobs online and market them to their target group. Often with mediocre results. Especially for smaller companies.

That is why we have focused all our energy on a product that enables small and large companies to optimally offer jobs online and market them directly.

We call our product the JobShop. Our customers call it independence.

+ Your tasks:

At talentsconnect, we are on a mission to change how companies and candidates meet each other.

We are growing and have big plans, which means we have multiple Product Owner openings in our team – Transparency and Action and Candidate Experience squads.

The Transparency and Action squad ensures we solve the recruiters' pain points. They build historical reporting dashboards, including owning and defining the data model, data collection, data pipelines, and the user experience. The reports provide transparency, but the team is also responsible for ensuring the data collected leads to meaningful improvements – the recruiter should always know the next best action and how to take that action.

The Candidate Experience squad is responsible for ensuring that we attract, retain, and inform the best candidates for our clients. The JobShop is a unique offering in the career site space that focuses on the candidate’s experience. This focus leads our product to attract and convert 4x more prospects into candidates. This squad will never be satisfied with the status quo; they look for new ways to attract more talent and help our recruiters fill their vacant positions.

All of our product owner positions are data people, but especially these two. The teams are made from a mix of talent including UI/UX, Development, Data Scientists, QA, and of course – the Product Owner. In our model, the product owner and the squad lead are one.

If leading either of these squads from a people and product perspective sounds interesting to you, we’d like to talk.

+ Your profile:

You’re unique and we value that our product owners and leaders have such diverse experiences, so we don’t look for key qualifications, but your peers will have the following in common:

• At least 2 years, prior experience as product manager or product owner in a data-driven culture where data informs feature design and priority.
• A high-energy, self-starter attitude.
• Experience working with data-heavy products, and an understanding of the complications of having models in production and the needs of the data members on your team when building new models. In the Transparency and Action team, we would value experience with NLP, recommendation, and/or prediction. In the Candidate Experience team we would value experience in site optimization strategies and recommendation.
• A desire to work on a small, cross-functional team; you value collaborating on problems, asking questions, delivering feedback, and supporting the team in its goals.
• Ability to work in a remote, diverse environment. Exceptional communication skills in English (and maybe a bit of German) with the ability to translate technical concepts into easy to understand language.