Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving sophisticated analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies, or growing efficiency in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our distributed team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an outstanding combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience, and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, and Patheon.
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The Position
The Software Product Owner has a self-propelling role, working as a software development team member within the R&D organization, to build a product vision and roadmap that increases value for our customers.
The team works in an agile environment where the SAFe and Scrum frameworks are applied. Together with your team members, you are responsible for the software that enables the users of our Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) products to manipulate the sample in all the ways needed to perform their experiment.
Key responsibilities include, but are not exclusively:
- Translate the company's customer value propositions into meaningful, industry-leading software (sub)products, that delight our customers.
- Drive the innovative development of new products through the design, verification, and validation stages.
- Collect feedback about specific needs by communicating with collaborators regularly and using this information to improve the products.
- Make the product backlog visible and clear.
- Handle incoming bug reports and change requests for the product. Handle customer concerns and blocking issues.
- Drive customer satisfaction by optimizing product performance, improving reliability and stability, and continuously balancing the introduction of new features with the implementation of functional and non-functional improvements.
- Support product development budgeting, process improvement, and quality assurance where vital.
- Agree with resource managers on efficient staffing of the development team.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate for this position enjoys working in a multi-disciplinary technical environment to address sophisticated problems. If you enjoy the development of high-performance integrated systems, this is an excellent opportunity.
- 1-3 years in a software product owner role.
- A university degree is required.
- Understanding of software development processes and tools.
- Sense for agile development. Experience with Scrum is an advantage.
- Experience with a multisite and multidisciplinary environment.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Willingness to travel abroad.
- Achieve results, develop your capabilities.
What we offer:
- Flexible working hours to better balance your personal life. 25 days of vacation and 5 sick days/year
- Financial benefits - annual bonus, meal allowance, pension insurance allowance
- Excellent working equipment: a notebook, a company phone and two monitors are our standard, further office equipment based on personal preferences
- Further employee benefits - a mobile tariff for you and family members for great prices, a free Multisport card for free, the possibility of life or health insurance for better prices
- We have a modern work environment including relaxation zones, power yoga lectures, a gym, an outside playground, and massages in the building. In the company canteen, there is always fresh fruit and vegetables for free
- Brand-new dedicated space room equipped with VR headset, Recording studio for your videos, music, or podcasts, Lego Mindstorms, 3D printer, Arduino, and much more!
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.