Junior Product Owner

About the role

The Junior Product Owner will support the product team in refining requirements and translating PRDs into actionable epics and user stories. This delivery-focused role involves maintaining the backlog, facilitating communication between cross-functional teams, and ensuring development cycles proceed smoothly. You will play a key role in shaping the ROMEO dating app by managing documentation and supporting release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Support the Product Management team in refining product requirements and translating approved PRDs into implementation-ready epics, user stories and tickets.
• Ensure user stories have clear acceptance criteria and are sufficiently refined before entering development.
• Maintain and order the backlog according to priorities set by product leadership.
• Take part in regular and ad hoc meetings to clarify product requirements with development, design and other delivery teams.
• Support our two-week delivery cycle by ensuring development teams have the information and decisions they need to proceed.
• Identify missing requirements, dependencies, open decisions and blockers early, and escalate them to Product or Delivery.
• Work closely with QA to communicate product and release priorities, clarify acceptance criteria, and support defect triage and release-readiness decisions.
• Support product acceptance and release readiness by checking delivered functionality against agreed requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Support the BI team by translating product questions, KPIs and tracking needs into clear data requirements.
• Maintain clear and up-to-date product documentation in Jira and Confluence.

Required skills

• Product Owner
• User stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Agile
• Scrum
• Kanban
• Jira
• Confluence

Nice to have

• B2C
• Social products
• Dating products
• Xray

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Germany Job Ticket contribution
• EGYM Wellpass
• In-house German classes
• Annual learning budget

About the Company

ROMEO is the company behind the legendary ROMEO dating app, one of Europe’s longest-standing dating platforms for queer communities.