Product Owner, Firmware department R&D

Pioneering for better solutions

For WSA, it is all about making Wonderful Sound for All, and we really hope you are ready to join our exciting projects. So, continue reading, if you are looking for a position with a true purpose.

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We are curious to get to know you and discover if there could be a mutual interest. We welcome people with different kinds of experience and uniqueness as long as you have practical experience with being a Product Owner, work permit in Denmark and can commute to the Lynge office.

All you need to do is click “Apply now” to show your interest and we will schedule a virtual meeting with you.

What we can offer you

Located in our CO2 neutral HQ north of Copenhagen, in beautiful Lynge, you will join a dynamic and dedicated team, who are highly skilled and empathic and masters of their craft. If togetherness motivates you, and you are driven towards making a difference and continuously learn and challenge yourself, then we are the right place for you to join. We work across teams and locations in Europe, so working from home will be possible during the week.

You will have the opportunity to join awesome projects in WS Audiology, where you will have a crucial impact focusing on building application that makes the lives better for our hearing aid professionals and users around the world.

The role

At WS Audiology, Research & Development is it all about understanding people – and building awareness about how our hearing aids can improve their quality of life.

In our Embedded Software department, we are looking for an experienced Product Owner who successfully can drive 1-2 Scrum-teams to deliver top quality output within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The Product Owners main task is to maximize the value produced by the team and ensuring that Stories and Backlog reflects business and user's needs. The Product Owner is responsible for complying with Definition of Done, setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by Agile Teams, cooperating with Product Management, System Engineering, Customers, Business Owners and other relevant Stakeholders.

About you

The ideal candidate holds a B.Sc. or M.Sc. in IT, Software, Electronics, Computer Science or similar combined with several years of practical experience within the medical industry. The candidate should have several years of experience as Product Owner with a proven track record.

As a person, you have the passion for impact and are motivated by seeing the results of your effort as well as engaging with others to create them. You are an excellent team player and believe that you can accomplish more as a team than as an individual.

You are a very structured team player, who can communicate in a precis and easy-to-understand way. You can make things happen and you do not back down from a challenge. Finally, you thrive in walking the extra mile for the team and you have great collaboration skills.

We guarantee that when working at WSA, you will grow personally as well as building a new set of competencies. At the same time, you will be supporting people in making wonderful sound for all through the solutions you develop.

We expect you to have:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
• Professional experience working as a Product Owner
• Technical background as developer and/or excellent understanding of SW development
• In-depth knowledge and practices in Agile processes and principles preferred in a scaled agile environment
• Extensive experience with multiple stakeholder management (e.g., within business teams, IT) achieving product objectives within agreed timeline
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Knowledge and understanding of Medical Device Regulation and Design Control is a plus
• Knowledge about EN 62304 is a plus

With us you will be responsible for:

The primary responsibility of the Product Owner is to work with System Engineering, App Development, Product Management and other stakeholders (including other Product Owners) to define, prioritize the product backlog, prepare sprint candidates for Sprint Planning, communicate the product vision, program priorities (features and enablers) to agile team, daily coordination the work with Scrum Masters and Agile Teams by attending relevant ceremonies (e.g., daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinements, design sprints) and Product management meetings for planning and refine committed business objectives.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain and own backlog (building, editing, deleting stories, defects, enablers, prioritizing)
• Contribute to the planning of product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities within your area of responsibility
• Address Agile Team needs regarding dependencies (requirements, lack of requirements, maturity of sub systems)
• Overseeing delivery stages (from design to release to the market)
• Prepare and participate in sprint planning
• Approve sprint outcomes
• Support team members in their day-to-day activities to maximize the value
• Point-of-contact for team and stakeholders
• Iterate and coordinate dependencies with relevant parties (together with Project Manager)
• Execute based on program strategy
• Set up the quality and content expectations towards dependencies
• Ensure quality of the component you are responsible for
• Adopt agile/scrum/scaled agile best practices

About WSA

WS Audiology combines over 140 years of experience in pioneering better solutions to help people with hearing loss. With a passion for impact, our around 12.000 employees are committed to achieving our purpose: wonderful sound for all. With brands like Signia, Widex, Audio Service, Rexton and Vibe, and with diverse assets across wholesale, retail, online, managed care and diagnostic solutions, we are active in over 125 markets. Going beyond together, we achieve annual revenues of around EUR 2 billion.