Technical Product Owner Matrix (m/f/d)

As Technical Product Owner Matrix (m/w/d), you own the “how” and “when” for our Matrix homeserver team. You combine user needs and specifications into a clear, prioritized backlog and make sure the team delivers reliably, release after release.

Your responsibilities:

• Backlog: own and prioritize the team backlog, balancing new initiatives with operational and maintenance work, and weighing features, bugs and technical debt together with the team.
• Requirements engineering: structure user stories and needs into epics and tasks with clear requirements while balancing the solutions against the specifications of the Matrix protocol and the TI-Messenger.
• Delivery: steer delivery using agile methods; refine tasks with the team, validate implementations and ensure urgency is balanced against a focused backlog.
• Releases: own release planning and go-live readiness within our two-week release train.
• Stakeholders: align requests from sales, customers and engineering, coordinate dependencies with the other product teams, infrastructure and support, communicate decisions and trade-offs early, and escalate to PM or Head of Product where needed. Give interested parties insights into plans and goals while keeping expectations within reasonable bounds.
• Engineering collaboration: work closely with engineers at eye level, understand technical trade-offs on the Matrix homeserver, write clear and testable acceptance criteria, and protect the team's focus.
• AI: use AI as a natural part of your work, for example for spec analysis, writing stories and test cases.

What you should bring:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner for a technical product, such as backend services, protocols or APIs
• Solid understanding of Matrix or comparable federated communication systems, homeservers, end-to-end encryption and APIs
• Experience working with specifications and in a regulated environment
• Hands-on experience with Jira and agile methods
• Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Fluent English and German language skills

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of the German telematics infrastructure (TI) or gematik specifications

Why you should work at Famedly:

• Work at a fast-growing startup in an exciting phase — Since 2019 we have grown rapidly and we have big plans ahead! Famedly brought the first gematik-certified TI-Messenger to market, and with your help we will continue to evolve it and the platform behind it.
• Meaningful ownership — Take responsibility for software people rely on every day in critical environments.
• Modern AI tooling — Use up-to-date coding agents and models without having to count tokens.
• Your perfect work-life balance — With remote work and flexible hours, you decide when and where you are most productive. You also have the option to work from our office in Berlin. Your choice: set up your home office or use a co-working space!
• Attractive conditions — A permanent contract with competitive compensation, a training budget, work equipment of your choice, and 28 vacation days per year.
• Flexible Benefits with Probonio – You receive a monthly wellbeing budget that you can use for vouchers from a wide range of food, mobility, retail, and lifestyle partners or for a discounted membership with Urban Sports Club.
• A diverse and international team — We value an open mindset and a diverse, inclusive culture where everyone feels welcome.
• Regular team events — Workshops, team-building activities, virtual game nights, and company events such as our Summer and Winter Summit.

Please note: For this position, we can currently only consider applications from candidates residing in Germany or another EU/EEA country.