Junior Product Owner

Job description

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 refinin…