About The Job
At Allianz, we are seeking a passionate and dynamic professional to take on the critical role of Product Owner for Global Mail Service within Allianz's Workplace Services Department. Here, you will oversee the end-to-end operations of our workplace communication services.
Your expertise in both on-premises and Microsoft Exchange Online environments will ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of Allianz's email infrastructure. Serving as the central link between business units, IT teams, and key stakeholders, you will translate business requirements into actionable strategies, oversee the Exchange product lifecycle, and ensure our mailing solutions evolve in alignment with business needs.
What You Do
- Manage the product development and vision, strategic direction, aligning customer solutions with business goals.
- Owns the product delivery context, including backlog clarity and dependency communications
- Maintain key product documentation, including customer journey maps and technical specifications.
- Ensure product features and processes comply with Allianz Group requirements, Information Security, Data Privacy, and Workers Council agreements.
- Translate regulatory and contractual requirements into use cases, agile stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Lead Agile practices, including sprints, planning, execution, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support go-to-market strategies.
- Partner with vendors and cross-functional partners in the evaluation, development, management, monitoring, and enhancement of assigned products and programs.
What You Bring
- Strategic Product Roadmapping capability - outlines a product's vision, goals, and direction over time which serves as a shared source of truth that aligns teams and stakeholders around short and long-term objectives.
- Stakeholder Management - understanding and effectively engaging with various stakeholders to ensure the product meets their needs and expectations.
- Business Application Knowledge - Proven experience providing technical leadership in an enterprise global mail environment, with a focus on Agile and DevOps principles for continuous development of workplace services.
- In-depth understanding of enterprise email systems design, implementation and management, with the ability to understand and deliver technical designs from requirements to final solution with the help of technical experts.
- Strong collaboration skills, working with technical architects and suppliers to ensure the successful delivery of technical solutions.
- Proficiency in tools like Jira, Confluence, and MS Office Suite, along with excellent customer relationship management skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English, with a strong understanding of Agile Delivery methods (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, DevOps) and IT Service Management, including certifications like PSM, PSPO, and ITIL.
- Ability to work independently, solving complex problems using multiple information sources.
- Higher education degree or equivalent work experience, ideally in Project Management or Agile IT Service Management.
- Basic AI understanding is mandatory.
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.
