Senior Product Owner (R-19623)
Summary
Owns the product roadmap for Dun & Bradstreet’s mainframe systems, balancing business needs, regulatory requirements, and technical constraints while managing outsourced development partners.
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The Senior Product Owner (Technology) is responsible for defining, managing, and driving the strategic direction, roadmap, and delivery of complex technology products, platforms, and services that support critical business objectives. This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams and external partners to ensure alignment between organizational priorities and technology investments.
The Senior Product Owner leads product strategy execution across products, balancing customer value, operational efficiency, technical sustainability, and business outcomes. The role owns product roadmaps, drives prioritization decisions, manages dependencies across teams while ensuring successful delivery of high-quality solutions.
Key responsibilities:
- Owning, driving the strategic roadmap and prioritizing the backlog for our Mainframe area
- Ensuring that business needs are translated into clear requirements Lead prioritization decisions, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements and operational demands
- Communicate roadmap status, risks, and strategic recommendations to leadership audiences.
- Lead relationships with strategic vendors, outsourced development partners, and third-party technology providers.
- Monitor performance against delivery commitments, service levels, quality standards, and business outcomes.
- Work closely with both business and technology, playing a central role in making sure they function effectively together
- Shape and develop how we work with the outsourced development team Mentor and provide guidance to Product Owners and delivery teams.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Essential skills and/or certifications:
- Degree holder with major in Technology or related disciplines.
- At least 8 years of experience in technology product ownership, software development, systems analysis, or related technology disciplines.
- Proven experience working with complex requirements, backlog, or product ownership
- Strong understanding of Mainframe environments, having Cobol experience is a plus
- Experience managing outsourced development teams, strategic vendors, and global delivery models.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Both insightful and pragmatic, with strong problem-solving skills and comprehension of what is actually “do-able”
- Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and bridge the communication gap between the two groups
- Structured and decisive, comfortable taking responsibility and driving issues forward
- Analytical capabilities, results oriented, with proven ability to manage workload and prioritize
- Excellent communication, project management and presentation skill Independent, detailed mind and a good team player
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite skills
- Show an ownership mindset in everything you do. Be a problem solver, be curious and be inspired to take action. Be proactive, seek ways to collaborate and connect with people and teams in support of driving success.
- Continuous growth mindset, keep learning through social experiences and relationships with stakeholders, experts, colleagues and mentors as well as widen and broaden your competencies through structural courses and programs.
- Fluency in English and Swedish.
Why Join Us?
Does this role sound like a great opportunity but you’re not sure about making a move? We are really proud of our company and culture and think we have some great things to offer. Some of our benefits in Sweden include:
· Two paid volunteer days to contribute to causes in your community
· A paid day every year to use for your health and wellness
· Instead of half days before public holidays, you will have 4 additional full days a year for you to use to celebrate what is meaningful to you
· Annual wellness/sport benefit
· Collective agreement, pension, insurance and parental pay allowance
· Access to free services providing support and counselling
· Flexible working arrangements and hybrid work arrangement for most roles
Whilst some roles do have certain requirements which are essential, we try to focus on hiring based on potential rather than CV as much as possible. If you are unsure you fully meet the requirements, we would still love to hear from you! Please note that all CVs must be submitted in English.
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