Technical Product Owner

TL;DR

Technical Product Owner: Collaborating with engineering and product teams to manage priorities, backlogs, and delivery schedules for secure digital products. Focus on coordinating feature pipelines, resolving prioritization conflicts, and supporting marketing campaigns for shipped improvements.

Location: Remote within Europe. The company is asking about willingness to relocate to the Netherlands.

Company

hirify.global is building an internet platform focused on protecting digital rights, offering secure email and VPN services with a vision for privacy by default.

What you will do

• Collaborate with engineering teams to manage priorities, backlogs, and delivery schedules.
• Communicate with other product team members to assist in planning and executing the feature pipeline.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to resolve prioritization of incoming reports and requests.
• Coordinate with other teams to ensure shipped features are supported with effective marketing campaigns.

Requirements

• More than three years of experience as a product manager, product owner, or equivalent role coordinating release cycles for technical teams.
• Ability to understand the company’s technology at a deep level.
• Experience working closely with internal technical teams, including engineering and development.
• Proven leadership and management skills to motivate, lead, and drive teams.
• Strong project management skills, including efficient time management, delegation, problem-solving, and clear communication.
• Experience in agile and/or scrum environment required.

Nice to have

• Degree in computer science or engineering.
• Past software development experience (e.g., JS, Swift, Kotlin).
• Experience in development of B2C products on mobile platforms.
• Agile and/or Scrum certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on interesting, challenging problems daily with no dull moments.
• Opportunity for significant impact due to startup culture where everyone’s opinion matters.
• Many opportunities for advancement due to rapid company growth.
• Chance to do meaningful work, protecting dissidents, journalists, and activists.
• Be part of a privacy revolution that is changing the world.