**This position is available for residents in Germany

If you like providing efficient, effective solutions to complex challenges, join us at Ascent! Be at the heart of helping achieve extraordinary things with software and data for our customers!    

About us

Ascent is a design-led software, data and cloud business that specialises in advanced analytics and AI.  We are an engineering business. We design, build and manage cloud-native products, solutions, platforms & experiences on Azure.

Our pan-European community of engineers, architects, data scientists and digital consultants helps customers take on challenges and opportunities, so they can do something new, or do existing things better.

From global insurance, pharma, healthcare and retail to smart home devices, space exploration and cricket - we get to work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses.  
 

Your responsibilities

As our next Product Owner, you play a major role in successfully implementing agile software projects, working closely with clients and an experienced team of developers and designers.   

• Conceptualize a client’s product by working out concrete requirements in workshops while keeping the user perspective and budgetary considerations in mind  
• Define and prioritize user stories and maintain the product backlog  
• Stay in close contact with the client and business stakeholders in order to maximize the product value  
• Maintain an intensive exchange with the team responsible for the implementation  
• Have an eye on the economic health of the project by preparing and communicating relevant key figures.   
• Actively contribute to the continual improvement of agile processes.  
• Consistently revamp digital products with user orientated features. 
• Nice to have: Experience in insurance and/or finance sector. 

Skills and experience

• Relevant experience as Product Owner or Agile Project Manager, ideally in the areas of web or mobile development. 
• You are passionate about agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban. 
• Taking responsibility, ownership and behaving in a self-assured manner and spurring progress hands-on come naturally to you.  
• You prefer a direct and open style of communication and deal with clients on an equal footing. 
• You detect risks early and take necessary precautions accordingly. 
• You share our enthusiasm for design & user experience.  
• You speak both German and English fluently.  

Working at Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches. 

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.