PQM Consulting AG
Glattbrugg
2 days ago
Product Owner for Online Services 100%
- 28 May 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Glattbrugg
Job summary
PQM Consulting AG, based in Pfäffikon SZ, is a leading IT firm specializing in quality assurance and management. Join a dynamic team committed to enhancing quality standards.
Tasks
- Define a clear product vision and strategy for the team.
- Create, maintain, and prioritize the Product Backlog effectively.
- Transform stakeholder needs into understandable User Stories.
Skills
- 5-8 years of experience as a Product Owner in agile environments.
- Strong technical skills and knowledge of APIs and web services.
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
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About the job
The company PQM Consulting AG based in Pfäffikon SZ is a renowned IT company specialised in the field of quality assurance and quality management. The company offers its customers professional support in optimising their quality requirements and divides its core competencies into four main components: project/risk management, quality management, requirements management, and process management.We are looking for a Product Owner for Online Services at the Senior level (from 5-8 years), for a long-term assignment directly with our client in the Zurich area from 01.07.2026. The employment can be internal or external at PQM Consulting AG
Main tasks:
- Defining a clear product vision and strategy to align the team towards a common goal
- Creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog. Ensuring that backlog entries are understandable and actionable
- Interface between customers, stakeholders, and the pod members
- Responsible for transforming stakeholder needs into understandable user stories
- Ensuring the delivery of a high-quality and compliant product that results in positive customer value
- Defining the required competencies in the pod in collaboration with crew leads and chapter leads, as well as providing regular feedback to ensure high performance
- Maintaining assigned containers and epics in Jira
- Creating training materials and conducting training sessions
- Providing input for employee appraisals
- The Product Owner is responsible for the commercial success of the product by ensuring that product development generates maximum value for customers and the company
- The Product Owner takes responsibility for representing stakeholders and ensuring their needs are considered
- Responsibility for the strategy, roadmap, and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) of the product within the agile pod
- Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog
- Formulating clear and understandable user stories including acceptance criteria
- Ensuring the backlog reflects transparent, visible, and comprehensible priorities
- Continuously adapting the backlog to new insights, feedback, and market conditions
- No disciplinary responsibility, but content leadership responsibility towards the team
- Transferring the efforts estimated by the pod into Jira
- Ensuring compliance with governance, standards, and guidelines
Requirements (content, methodology, technology):
- Strong technical skills
- API / web service know-how including SOAP and REST
- API test tools such as SOAP UI
- Enterprise architecture knowledge
- SQL database knowledge
- Experience in agile environments and solid understanding of agile frameworks, especially the role of the Product Owner
- Proven success in delivering complex products
- Knowledge of agile planning
- Experience in using prioritisation techniques
- Experience in defining and implementing OKRs as well as prioritising backlogs based on business goals
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and measure product success using KPIs
- Technical basic understanding and the ability to comprehend software architectures, APIs, and data flows
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Stakeholder management
- Assertiveness
- Good knowledge of tools such as Jira and Confluence
Requirements: (language spoken / written)
- German: Good knowledge
- English: Good knowledge
We offer:
- Dynamic, flexible, motivated team
- Interesting tasks, projects, and challenges
- Opportunities for advancement
- Good social benefits
Do you feel addressed? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application documents (CV please detailed and in German). Please send your application via our online tool using the button below and benefit from a quick processing. Of course, you may also apply by conventional means via email to Tabea.mattiazzo@pqm-consulting.ch. For telephone enquiries, Ms Mattiazzo is happy to assist you at the phone number 079 322 73 51. Only online applications will be considered
