Product Owner – Stage Control Systems (m/w/d)

Your Role

As a Product Owner for Stage Automation, you play a key role in the conceptual and functional development of our stage control systems. You translate requirements from everyday stage operations, specific customer needs, and the company’s product vision into viable, modular, and future-oriented software and operational concepts. From this, you develop clear roadmaps and prioritized development packages.

You are responsible for the product backlog and steer the continuous development of the product. As a shaping force, you structure, explain, and moderate technical questions and solution proposals in dialogue with development, design, customer representatives, and company management. You create actionable solutions for defined objectives, coordinate them closely with technical leadership, and ensure consistent and traceable implementation by the development team.

Depending on your personal focus, you may also contribute the product idea beyond development—for example, in product presentations, customer events, trade shows, training sessions, or collaboration with sales and marketing. This area of responsibility is optional and can be tailored to your interests and strengths.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the product backlog, including structuring, maintenance, and prioritization of requirements

• Planning, management, and monitoring of development packages and releases

• Capturing, analyzing, and structuring customer and user requirements as a basis for developing complex and safety-critical software functions

• Establishing, maintaining, and evolving a structured requirements management system suitable for safety-critical software components

• Developing technical solution and operational concepts as a foundation for software development

• Creating and maintaining user stories, use cases, and functional requirements

• Close collaboration with software developers, UI/UX designers, and project engineers

• Methodical support of development in an agile, iterative environment aligned with Scrum

• Moderating technical discussions between development, customers, and internal stakeholders

• Participation in testing, reviews, and approvals from a functional and user perspective

• Several years of professional experience (minimum 5 years) in software development, product management, or product ownership

• Proven experience in requirements management, ideally for complex and safety-critical systems

• Strong understanding of modern operational and usability concepts for technical applications

• Solid understanding of stage operations and the various operating modes of performance venues, e.g., opera houses, repertory theaters, musicals, shows, and concert halls

• Practical experience with stage control systems—either through direct operational experience or close collaboration with users, productions, and technical teams

• Experience documenting user requirements through user stories, use cases, and functional specifications

• Knowledge of functional safety, ideally in accordance with EN ISO 61508 or comparable standards

• Experience working with interdisciplinary development teams and designers

• Familiarity with agile development methods; PSPO certification or equivalent is a plus

• Structured, analytical working style with strong communication and moderation skills

• Excellent written and spoken German and English

• A key, product-shaping role in the development of internationally deployed stage control and automation systems

• Close collaboration with an experienced, interdisciplinary development team

• Freedom to influence product concepts, development processes, and operational philosophies

• Flexible working hours and the option to work remotely

• An open and supportive attitude toward the use of modern (including AI-assisted) tools in development and documentation

• Attractive additional benefits such as corporate perks and company pension plans

• A respectful work environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths