Associate Product Owner

Role Overview

We are looking for a proactive, curious, and people-focused Associate Product Owner to join our product team. You will support the end-to-end product lifecycle, working closely with engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders to help shape and deliver valuable features that solve real user problems. This role is ideal for someone who has some experience working with digital products and wants to continue building strong product ownership skills in a supportive, collaborative team.

Sills & Experience

Essential

Experience of project or change management.
Understanding of product and technology.
Ability to prioritse tasks and workload.
Strong analytical ability — comfortable working with data to support decisions.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Stakeholder management experience.


Nice to Have

Some experience working with product development or delivery teams (e.g., product management, business analysis, project coordination).
Understanding of product lifecycle concepts.
Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Trello).
Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Exposure to Agile ceremonies or frameworks.
Understanding of UX principles or user-centred design.
Familiarity with metrics/analytics tools.


Personal Qualities

Curious, proactive, and always looking to learn.
Comfortable with ambiguity and open-ended problem spaces.
Self-driven with a strong sense of ownership.
Positive approach and ability to connect well with others.
Enjoys working collaboratively across multiple teams

Key Responsibilities

Product Delivery

Support the Product Owner in translating customer problems into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
Assist with backlog refinement, sprint planning, and maintaining prioritised, high-quality work items.
Collaborate with engineering squads to ensure shared understanding and smooth delivery.

Stakeholder Management

Build strong relationships across squads and business teams.
Communicate updates, gather feedback, and help align stakeholders around product outcomes.

Analysis & Insight

Use data to identify opportunities, understand feature performance, and support decision-making.
Contribute to discovery work such as competitor analysis, customer research, and problem validation.

Product Lifecycle Support

Contribute to requirement gathering, solution exploration, delivery, release planning, and iteration cycles.
Help ensure products are aligned with strategy, customer needs, and commercial goals.

What’s In It For You?

Working for a language services company with over 20 years of experience delivering first-class translation and interpreting services and enabling providing expert support to both private and public sectors in over 500 languages and dialects. Moreover, every single day through your role you will be contributing to reduce language barriers every single day and enable our customers to have a great experience.

Additionally, we offer the following benefits:

• New starters welcome package
• Hybrid work set up (4 days in the office, 1 day from home)
• Private Medical & Mental & Dental insurance (Regina Maria)
• Meal Vouchers
• Yearly public transportation reimbursement %
• Yearly Eyeglasses Replacement Budget (600 RON)
• 20 Annual leave days, with +1 annual leave day per year worked
• Seniority bonus starting 2nd year of employment (2%), increasing exponentially until 5th year;
• Game/Recreation Room
• Roof top terrace
• Brand new modern office centrally located
• Monthly & Yearly Employee awards
• A young and vibrant team always there to offer support
• Engagement and fun events throughout the year
• Training and career development opportunities within a new and rapid growing business
• Flexible Hybrid work set up (as planned with the team management)
• Summer & Xmas party
• Daily Breakfast in the office
• Coffee & Tea
• Fruits & Sweets