Specialist IoT Tech. Product Owner Lead
hace 19 horas
Madrid
Join Us At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact. Joining Vodafone IoT’s team means being part of a growing, purpose‑driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem‑solvers, and forward‑thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high‑performing, inclusive environment. Role Purpose The Technology Product Owner manages the interface to the IoT Line of Business (LoB) and, in particular, to the Business Product Manager associated with you products/platforms/developments. You will be responsible for negotiating, managing, and agreeing demand into the practice for these products and managing the backlog, new features definition, roadmap prioritisation and operational governance. You will build the technology plan to inform and deliver the product/platform strategy and roadmap, supporting a focus on Network platforms, features and capabilities as well as Network integrations. You will align and prioritise technology innovation and customer co‑creation for the practice, ensuring that the final prioritised roadmap is viable from a technology, cost and delivery perspective. What You’ll Do Manage the interface between the IoT Technology Practice and the IoT LoB Product Manager(s) Define the Network product features roadmap within Technology Agree with IoT LoB and technologies functions (VF Group Networks, suppliers) the technical product capabilities and features that support the business requirements Collate the Technology Strategy, Plan and requirements to inform, then deliver, the Product/Platform Strategy, Roadmap and features Interlock overall product/platform costs/budget/demands on the Practice with LoB Product manager, Pre-Sales, LPM, Finance and through governance. Ensuring continuous focus on cost management Lead on the Network backlog management and technology planning process for the Practice (in line with Product roadmap). Support wider Network domain to manage mandatory technical debt and enablers to go onto the plan along with recommendations such as backlog, security & data privacy, technology insights and vendor roadmaps Own demand assessment and impact analysis, ensuring the IoT Network roadmap is technically viable, cost‑optimised, and delivery‑ready Drive value stream execution and governance, managing backlogs, EPICs, budgets, and sequencing into New Product Development Partner with IoT Product Managers to shape network features and innovation, translating strategy into buildable requirements across global engineering teams Who You Are Managing in multi‑market and global environments Experience leading and delivering high performance through teams in Telecoms and/or Technology industry roles Agile product development experience (e.g. SAFe, Spotify, Scrum) and qualifications Experience with product development tools e.g. Jira, Confluence Technical product development (Network and IT integrations) / product owner experience Strong understanding of the Network products and technology (2G/3G/4G/5G SA and NSA, VoLTE, Radius, Diameter, Firewalls, data backhaul) Understanding of IT flows for service provisioning (previous experience on MVNO integration project is a plus) Brings a balance of customer, business and IoT technology understanding to relate technology solutions to product outcomes Strong collaboration, communication, team working and influencing skills Relevant product, platforms and technology experience with exposure to Platform Eco‑systems Ability to build E2E technology plans specific to products and platforms Customer centric focus ideally with experience defining capabilities and features through customer co‑creation In‑life technology management and KPI performance relevant to products Roll out and manage in‑life vendor cost and service performance specific to products Budget management and performance Experience building technical specifications for products and in turn user stories, service models, in conjunction with business and technology teams Backlog management and prioritisation Working knowledge of data privacy and security by default and design principles and alignment to Information Security frameworks What's In It For You Bonus on top of the gross salary Meal voucher (Ticket Restaurant), additional to gross salary Flexible working hours from Monday to Thursday, and an intensive schedule on Fridays Intensive Summer Schedule during July and August Up to 20 days per year of 100% remote work from other locations Private Health and Life Insurance for employees 25 vacation days, plus December 24th and 31st off Optional Pension Plan * Access to an online learning platform for continuous training #J-18808-Ljbffr