Product Owner (Job Req #2025-023)
Feistritz im Rosental, Carinthia, Austria
Why Work at spidercam Robotics by Ross Video?
We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.
Maximising the value of the Camera Motion Systems spidercam products, resulting from the work of the project/scrum team. The Product Owner will be the main point of contact for the product team and will provide the product line monthly report in R&D sync meetings.
You’ll be managing specific projects and steering them to produce customer driven products and features including product backlogs, creating and reviewing product backlog items and working day to day with the project/scrum team to maintain the priority and timelines. You will collaborate with PM on the best way to achieve the product vision and goals and the roadmap. You’ll work with target customers to validate your ideas and create excellent solutions that will change the way productions are made.
Who you report to: Senior Manager, Technical Product Management
What the job is all about:
Collaboration
Work with PM to ensure a deep understanding of the release goals/themes and product vision. Work together to define and monitor KPIs that indicate how the product investment is delivering value.
Work day-to-day with the project/scrum team to support the delivery of the product. Responsibilities include: managing the product backlog, creating and reviewing user stories and acceptance criteria with the team, creating epics and story maps, defining sprint goals, capturing feature requests and enhancements
Work with new and existing customers and end users to fully understand the problem space and revise existing features to better align with their needs
Provide feedback and suggestions on the product roadmap, future release plans and product direction
Participate in all project/scrum activities including: leading backlog refinement, participating in retrospectives and planning, daily stand-ups, defining definition of done
Participate in cross-team planning activities and track cross-team dependencies/commitments
Work with subject matter experts to ensure a quality product, including Architects, Quality Assurance Experts, Test Automation Experts
Plan and roll out sustaining activities including supporting existing customers with upgrade plans/paths, while having zero excess stock. Includes any end-of-life processes.
Assist in the development of marketing materials to support the rental business and promote the brand. This will include, but is not limited to, customer-facing materials such as: cutsheets, brochures, application notes, video scripts, white papers, training documents (internal and external), and web text.
Assist in the maintenance support contracts to develop this revenue stream.
Innovation, Design and Specification
Develop and prototype innovative approaches to solving existing and emerging problems. Perform user acceptance testing as needed.
Create product specification documentation to support the development team in delivering products that address customer needs and achieve the product vision, including: mockups, interaction designs, information architecture and data models
Continuously participate in customer feedback sessions and research, both before and after feature implementation
Create user experience artifacts to aid the project/scrum team in keeping the user top of mind: scenarios, user stories, personas, use cases etc.
Work closely with User Experience Design team to create mockups and interaction designs for new features that are inline with Ross standards
Decision Making
Maintains the priority of the items in the release backlog, including user stories, bugs, tech support escalations to maximize the value of the product, while staying aligned with the vision and strategy
Makes day-to-day business vs technical trade-off decisions
Evaluate/suggest and own potential OEM products to enhance the product range, managing all the communications and initial negotiations, including supply chain activities.
Stakeholder Management and Communication
Regularly reporting on progress towards sprint and release goals to PM, dependent R&D teams, R&D and executives
Explain and regularly communicate the rationale behind the priority of items in the product backlog to all release stakeholdersEnsure customer stakeholders, both internal and external, are informed when priorities change or risks emerge
Facilitate/assist in sprint reviews, collect and solicit feedback and capture changes in product backlog
Provide product training, assist in pilot, technical training and service training, where relevant.
Who you are:
Ideally, experience developing, operating, selling or marketing videoproduction equipment in a live broadcast environment is required
Some experience operating, selling or marketing cable camera systems or related equipment would be a valuable asset.
Ability to learn and demonstrate Spidercam systems and ancillary equipment
General knowledge of all Ross Video Products would be an asset
The ability to converse in German and English to B2 level, an additional language would be considered an asset
Excellent communication skills
Excellent presentation skills
Proficiency with Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Energetic self-starter
Self-reliant
Self-Motivated
Passionate about Ross Video & our products
Positive and determined
High Tolerance of Ambiguity
Attention to Detail
Team Oriented
Problem Solver
Organized
Lateral and strategic thinker
Valid Passport
Valid Driver’s License
Salary: $4,344.34 monthly or more based on experience.
What we offer
Ross offers competitive salaries and comprehensive health plans, as well as several perks to help you perform at your best. Some of these perks include flexible hours, generous paid time off, fitness/wellness allowance, employee share ownership program, development support and a ton of fun social activities and events! Best of all, you will be part of the Ross Video family, and we’ve got an energizing environment here.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
At Ross, we embrace diversity, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work. We are committed to building a team that includes a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Inclusivity drives innovation and creativity, and that’s something we’re passionate about at Ross! We believe everyone should be able to enjoy a rewarding career at Ross, regardless of race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability. If a disability means that you need any additional support during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.
See the full announcement at https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/rossvideo/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/11703
If we have aroused your interest, we look forward to receiving your application. Please submit your application documents in English to: SC-Human.Ressources@rossvideo.com or use the link above for the Ross application portal.
Spidercam Robotics GmbH
Attn. SC Human Ressources
Gewerbestrasse 10
9181 Feistritz im Rosental
Austria
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