Product Owner – Cybersecurity

Hornetsecurity

Product Owner managing the product backlog and facilitating stakeholder collaboration for Hornetsecurity's software solutions. Ensuring high-quality feature delivery and aligning with product vision.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeHanover • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You act as the primary point of contact between stakeholders and product squads.
You create and maintain a well-defined product backlog, ensuring it is properly prioritized and ready for sprint planning.
You triage and prioritize feature requests, improvements, and bug fixes.
You write clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for product squads.
You collaborate closely with product squads in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews.
You make quick, informed decisions to keep development moving forward.
You ensure delivered features meet quality standards and align with the product vision.
You collaborate with UX/UI designers to create delightful user experiences.
You work with other Product Managers and Product Owners to improve product management practices, resolve dependencies, and remove obstacles to feature delivery.
You create and maintain all product documentation required for the delivery of product features according to the software development lifecycle process.
You partner with customer-facing teams to ensure smooth product adoption and address user concerns.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have a degree in computer science
You have a first experience as a Product Owner for B2B or B2C software
You enjoy solving complex problems in a collaborative manner
Your peers praise you for your organization, attention to detail, autonomy, team spirit and sense of responsibility
You are keen to expose yourself to new technologies and ideas.
You are fluent in English, both written and spoken.
Would be a plus: You have already used Atlassian Confluence and Jira.
You have experience with the Gherkin syntax
You are fluent in German or French.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Temporary Employee Exchange Program – we support you in working from our global office locations while exploring the world (e.g., Malta, Madrid, Montréal, Washington, D.C.)
Work-from-home option and flexible working hours.
Team events like laser tag, an escape room, or a get-together at our own legendary beer truck in Hanover – let yourself be surprised!
Be-Active Bonus – we subsidize your gym memberships.
Whether by car, public transport, or bike – we make your commute easier with free parking (Hannover), a discounted Jobticket, or bike leasing.
Employer contribution to the company pension plan.
Referral Bonus: €1,500 for every successful candidate referral.
And of course, the usual standards like 30 days of vacation, permanent contracts, development opportunities, coffee, tea, soft drinks & fresh fruit, office dogs, no dress code, and much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementB2B Software ExperienceB2C Software ExperienceUser Acceptance CriteriaAgile Methodologies

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingOrganizationAttention to DetailTeam SpiritAutonomy