Product Owner
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At a glance
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Salary
- €65k-75k/year (EUR)
- Category
- Product / Owner
Technologies & skills
Cloud & infrastructure
What you'll be doing
Product Owner role at a software company in Dublin, Ireland (hybrid). Responsible for backlog ownership, user stories, stakeholder management, and collaborating with engineering teams. Involvement with AI-enabled product features and Agile tooling. Experience in regulated industries is a plus.
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, keeping it visible and aligned with business goals
- Turn stakeholder needs into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria
- Run backlog refinement and sprint planning, keeping priorities current
- Work as an embedded partner to engineering teams, giving them the clarity to deliver
- Balance new features against performance, security, and long-term maintainability
- Identify practical ways to use AI within the platform
- Report progress, risks and trade-offs to stakeholders using delivery data
Key requirements
Must-have
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or owning a backlog in an Agile software environment
- Strong skills in writing user stories and acceptance criteria
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers to prioritise and clarify work
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Solid understanding of how software is built and how technical decisions affect the product
- Experience with enterprise, workflow, or configurable software platforms
- Exposure to AI-enabled features or AI tools
- Familiarity with Agile tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps
Nice-to-have
- Experience in insurance, financial services or another regulated industry
Role signals
- Technical focus
- product ownership, backlog management, AI-enabled features, Agile processes
- Hands-on vs management
- Hands-on
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Full job description
Product Owner
**Salary: **€65k - €85k
**Location: **Dublin
**Type: **Permanent
**Start: **ASAP
**Desired Skills: **Backlog ownership and prioritisation, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, working closely with engineering teams, stakeholder management, Agile tooling and delivery metrics, AI-enabled product features.
Product Owner
Dublin - Hybrid - Permanent
Our client is an established software company in South Dublin, building specialist platforms used by leading names across the insurance and financial services market.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, keeping it visible and aligned with business goals.
- Turn stakeholder needs into epics, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria.
- Run backlog refinement and sprint planning, keeping priorities current.
- Work as an embedded partner to engineering teams, giving them the clarity to deliver.
- Balance new features against performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify practical ways to use AI within the platform.
- Report progress, risks and trade-offs to stakeholders using delivery data.
What We are Looking For
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, or owning a backlog, in an Agile software environment.
- Strong skills in writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience collaborating closely with engineers to prioritise and clarify work.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- A solid understanding of how software is built and how technical decisions affect the product.
- Experience with enterprise, workflow, or configurable software platforms.
- Exposure to AI-enabled features or AI tools in your day-to-day work.
- Familiarity with Agile tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
Experience in insurance, financial services or another regulated industry would be an advantage.
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Interview prep pack
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Your interview focus
Based on this listing, the Product Owner role focuses on backlog ownership, user story creation, close collaboration with engineering, and integrating AI-enabled features within an Agile software environment.
- Backlog management and Agile delivery·High
- Stakeholder and engineering collaboration·High
- AI-enabled product features·Medium
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Start 30-minute prep
Your 30-minute plan
Review and Document Backlog Management Experience
0–7 minList specific examples where you owned and prioritised a backlog, including your approach and outcomes.
Prepare User Story and Acceptance Criteria Samples
7–13 minSelect 2-3 user stories you have written, focusing on clarity and alignment with stakeholder needs.
Summarise Collaboration with Engineering Teams
13–19 minRecall situations where you worked closely with engineers to deliver features, noting your communication and problem-solving methods.
Research and Reflect on AI-Enabled Product Features
19–25 minIdentify your experience with AI tools or features, or prepare to discuss your approach to learning and integrating new technologies.
Review Agile Tooling Usage
25–30 minRefresh your knowledge of Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools, and be ready to discuss how you used them for backlog and delivery management.
Talking points
, 5 itemsBacklog Ownership and Prioritisation
Demonstrate your ability to manage and prioritise a product backlog aligned with business goals, using real examples of how you kept priorities current and visible.
Writing User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
Showcase your skill in translating stakeholder needs into actionable user stories and clear acceptance criteria, highlighting your attention to detail and clarity.
Collaboration with Engineering Teams
Prepare to discuss how you have worked as an embedded partner with engineering, providing clarity and balancing technical trade-offs.
AI-Enabled Product Features
Be ready to explain your exposure to AI tools or features, and how you have identified or implemented practical AI solutions in a product context.
Stakeholder Management and Communication
Illustrate your ability to communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders using delivery data.
What to research
, 4 itemsReview Agile Backlog Management Practices
Refresh your knowledge of backlog refinement, prioritisation techniques, and aligning backlog items with business goals.
Prepare Examples of User Story Creation
Gather concrete examples of how you have written user stories and acceptance criteria, especially for complex or regulated environments.
Familiarise Yourself with AI-Enabled Features
Be ready to discuss your experience with AI tools or features, or your approach to integrating AI into software products.
Understand Agile Tooling (Jira, Azure DevOps)
Review your experience with Agile tools, focusing on backlog management, reporting, and delivery tracking.
Questions to ask
, 6 itemsHow does the product team currently identify and prioritise opportunities for AI-enabled features?
Why ask this? To understand the company's approach to innovation and AI integration.
What are the main challenges the engineering and product teams face when balancing new features with performance and security?
Why ask this? To gauge the complexity of trade-offs and technical decision-making in the role.
How are stakeholders involved in backlog refinement and sprint planning?
Why ask this? To clarify expectations for stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
What Agile tools and delivery metrics are most important to your team?
Why ask this? To align your experience with the team's processes and tooling.
Can you describe the typical workflow for turning stakeholder needs into actionable user stories?
Why ask this? To understand the team's requirements gathering and refinement process.
How does the company support Product Owners in staying current with industry trends, especially in AI and regulated industries?
Why ask this? To assess opportunities for professional development and learning.
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