Product Specialist (Software & Services)

Quick Facts

• Role: Product Specialist (Software & Services) — Product Owner focus

• Initial scope: Optimum software; later expand to additional portfolio areas, especially a Virtual Assistant

• Domain: Products used daily by insolvency administrators and their teams

Description

You will translate customer needs and product direction into clear specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog priorities—starting with Optimum software and later extending to other products (especially the Virtual Assistant).

Working in an agile environment, you will collaborate with analysts and developers, run product meetings, and validate that shipped features deliver real customer value. The role also includes identifying practical AI use cases for products and internal processes.

Responsibilities

• Discover, analyze, and validate customer requirements

• Convert product inputs into user stories and acceptance criteria

• Manage the product backlog and prepare topics for implementation

• Prioritize small and mid-sized requests within the agreed roadmap and prepare inputs for larger items

• Collaborate with analytics and engineering during agile development: prepare sprint topics, explain feature intent, provide context, and accept delivered solutions

• Propose concepts and collaborate on UX/UI

• Lead routine product meetings, record agreements, and track follow-through

• Monitor feature adoption and verify expected customer value

• Support product training program creation (content, dependencies, and customer benefit)

• Track market, competition, and relevant legislative changes; prepare materials on product impact

• Collaborate with marketing and sales for releases, product arguments, and customer materials

• Gradually coordinate concrete changes across other products and services

Benefits

• Specialized products with direct impact on customers’ daily work

• Opportunity to influence product direction and propose your own ideas

• Gradual responsibility growth based on your experience

• Structured onboarding plan for your first month

• Training in products, processes, and the insolvency environment

• Close collaboration with the Product Manager and an experienced development team

• Supportive team environment and open culture where ideas are welcome

• Brno city-center offices with a terrace

• Option to combine office work with partial home office

Requirements

• Product-driven mindset: ability to ask and find the real problem

• Ability to break down complex topics into understandable steps and complete the solution

• Analytical thinking using information, feedback, and basic data

• Ability to clearly communicate and align customers, developers, and other teams

• Strong ability to organize work, manage agreements, and take ownership

• Interest in digital product development, automation, and practical AI

• Ability to work with backlog, priorities, and multiple parallel topics

• Willingness to learn the professional insolvency environment

• Not required to have a specific number of years as a Product Owner; junior candidates can come from analysis, project coordination, implementation, or customer requirements work