Product Owner - Driver App
Barcelona, Spain
FREE NOW
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About FREE NOW
Do you want to proactively contribute to designing the future of mobility? Are you interested in optimizing and developing a key component of the FREE NOW business in a challenging role with a lot of responsibility?
If the answer is yes, then we have the right role for you based in the heart of Barcelona.
FREE NOW was founded as mytaxi in June 2009 and was the world’s first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver.
In July 2019, mytaxi rebranded to FREE NOW as part of a global mobility brand family and set itself up as a multiservice mobility provider. With 14 million passengers and more than 100,000 drivers, FREE NOW is one of the leading ride-hailing providers in Europe. Since February 2019, the service is part of the FREE NOW group, the ride-hailing joint venture of BMW and Daimler.
FREE NOW today works with more than 700 employees in 26 offices and is available in over 100 European cities. Eckart Diepenhorst is leading the operational business as CEO Europe of FREE NOW.
Position
Do you want to proactively contribute to designing the future of mobility? Are you interested in optimizing and developing a key component of the FREE NOW business in a challenging role with a lot of responsibility?
If the answer is yes, then we have the right role for you based in the heart of Barcelona.
As Product Owner of the FREE NOW Driver App, you are responsible for the product development and coordination of new feature implementation in the FREE NOW Driver App, which is used by tens of thousands of taxi drivers all over Europe. Your work will contribute directly to the ongoing success and growth of FREE NOW in one of the most dynamic market environments of our times.
FREE NOW encourages a strong team spirit and simple company culture. Our teams organize themselves in established agile working environments. People at FREE NOW work flexibly and independently. Every single employee is a part of our success story and so, open communication and a fair feedback culture come naturally to us.
We are passionate problem-solvers who listen and understand before we act. By working together – with each other, customers, drivers and cities - we make things better. Besides a lot of fun and potential to make a real difference, you will have the opportunity to work with the best team in the world (we know, everybody says so, but at FREE NOW it’s true)!
As Product Owner at FREE NOW you will:
- Be responsible for the Driver App; the foundation of the FREE NOW service, in order to push it to its next level
- Work closely with the product department in Hamburg/Barcelona and stakeholders across Europe
- Together with our developers, the Prioritization Committee and stakeholders, work on the feature specifications and roadmap
- Think as a European and adapt and understand different cultures and market environments. Traveling to our offices around Europe is key
- Conceptualize new products to bring them to life with a team of developers and verify their success in our markets through working with Business Intelligence, executing A/B Tests and overseeing UX/UI research
- Gather new requirements, analyze and rate them on a quantitative and qualitative level before prioritizing them based on the findings
- Work closely with our Teams to improve the development process across our European markets
Main requirements
- Several years of experience in agile software development
- Substantial skills in software product management, team management, product prioritization and creating roadmaps
- Expertise in the field of mobility markets would be perfect
- You conceive immediately what makes a product successful and can conceptualize pragmatic solutions
- You hold profound expertise in different procedure models of software development - especially Scrum and Kanban
- You are open to trying out new things and are driven to optimize products and processes alike
- You are an empathic communicator and motivator with a great hands-on mentality
- You will be a problem solver, detail-oriented and self-motivated who thrives in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment
- Fluent proficiency in English and Spanish. German is a plus
Perks
- Flexible working hours and intensive Fridays
- Gym membership
- Quarterly team-building activities (karting, bowling, laser tag, escape rooms, barbecues/calçotades, etc.)
- Yearly off-site hacking weeks
- Hacking days and occasional trips to our HQ in Hamburg
- Weekly free buffet breakfasts in the office
- Health insurance with basic dental coverage
- 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
- A monthly mobility allowance for free taxi rides
- The opportunity to use the latest technologies and implement your own ideas
- Working with agile methodologies following Spotify's engineering culture
- Flexible learning and development opportunities through internal and external workshops, events and conferences
- Be part of a motivated and innovative team with flat hierarchies
- Free language lessons
- Beautiful office at the heart of Barcelona
- All the usual start-up goodies like free fruit, unlimited drinks, after-work beers and many more!
Additional details
Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Relocate.me.
The vacancy expires on 2019-12-29.
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