Product Owner, Software & AI Automation

• Develop and enhance tools, systems, and automations for energy market processes.
• Actively shape the software development team and establish agile ways of working, development standards, and efficient processes.
• Contribute to projects focused on the digitalization of the energy sector and smart metering.
• Further develop AI-supported ticket processing and launch self-service tools.
• Expand process monitoring and early-warning systems, and design AI agents for operational tasks.
• Establish AI-assisted Development as an integral part of product development.
• Act as a liaison between operational business teams, internal development teams, and external service providers.
• Capture and translate stakeholder requirements into user stories and IT development tickets.
• Manage requirements from initial elicitation through technical implementation to business acceptance.
• Prioritize requirements, features, and bugs in the backlog.
• Promote the use of AI for development, code reviews, testing, and quality assurance.
• Ensure clear and transparent documentation of new features and automations.
• Ensure stable operations, handle requests and incidents, and coordinate their resolution.

• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, or in a comparable role bridging business and IT.
• Very good understanding of modern software development and a strong interest in AI-assisted Development, coding agents, and AI-supported quality assurance.
• Ability to identify meaningful use cases for AI in coding, testing, code reviews, and documentation.
• Technical understanding sufficient to assess the quality, risks, and limitations of AI-generated development outputs.
• Ability to translate business requirements and processes into clear user stories, requirements, and IT tickets.
• Experience collaborating with development teams and external software service providers.
• Confident handling of backlogs, prioritization, testing, and business acceptance.
• Affinity for IT and strong technical understanding; ideally experience with Java/Kotlin, Azure, and Rust.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders.
• A high level of ownership and a commitment to supporting products from requirements through stable operations.
• Ideally, experience in the energy sector, metering operations, energy market communication, or energy-industry IT.

• 100% remote work possible – choose whether you work from the Saarlouis or Mannheim office, or from home.
• Development opportunities in a growing company at the heart of the energy transition.
• A dynamic environment with significant scope to shape your work and short decision-making paths.
• Modern work equipment and an open corporate culture.
• Regular team events.
• Additional leave for the birth of a child and your own wedding.
• Company pension plan.
• Option to purchase a Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass).
• Employee discounts with partner companies.