Product Owner - Cloud Accounting

4w4 weeks ago

Haufe Group

Freiburg, DE · Full-time · €60,000 – €85,000

About this role

Join Lexware, the market leader for cloud software solutions for small businesses and self-employed professionals. Make entrepreneurship easier 450,000 times over by simplifying accounting, taxes, finances, inventory, payroll, and wages. Step in as Product Owner for Cloud Accounting as soon as possible.

Ensure customers map their business in financial and asset accounting simply and automated. Recognize improvement potentials and unaddressed jobs-to-be-done through continuous customer exchange, translating them into targeted, user-friendly solutions. Validate ideas before development, plan rollouts, analyze feedback, and manage user-oriented communication across touchpoints.

Work with the cross-functional team to address the four big risks of product development: value, usability, feasibility, and business viability. Prioritize and balance the backlog to advance the product vision quickly. Collaborate with other Product Owners and teams for a consistent end-to-end user journey across domains.

Our Freiburg office fosters collaboration and creative exchange with regular on-site meetings at least every two weeks. Balance this with focused remote work from home, agreed with the team. Team recruiting ensures direct conversations with experts like Carsten, the accounting specialist.

Requirements

At least 3 years experience in Lean Product Management, specifically for online and SaaS solutions
Live Continuous Product Discovery and understand the importance of customer understanding for outstanding product experiences with measurable outcomes
Economics degree and several years practical experience in financial accounting to discuss with target group on eye level
Familiar with booking and depreciation from daily practice and translate into concrete, user-centered product solutions
Strong discovery mindset, keep portfolio and vision in view, make data-based decisions, user interviews, rapid prototyping
Use AI tools purposefully to gain insights faster and boost productivity
Very good German skills (at least C2 level) for direct customer interaction
Excellent communication in interdisciplinary team context, translate between disciplines, basic technical knowledge advantageous

Responsibilities

Ensure customers map their business in financial and asset accounting simply and automated
Recognize improvement potentials and jobs-to-be-done from continuous customer exchange and translate into targeted user-friendly solutions
Validate new ideas before development, plan and steer rollouts, analyze feedback, and ensure user-oriented communication across all touchpoints
Address the four big risks of product development (value, usability, feasibility, business viability) with the cross-functional team
Prioritize and balance the backlog in close exchange with the team to approach the product vision quickly
Collaborate with other Product Owners and teams to ensure consistent end-to-end user journey across domains and team boundaries