As Product Owner you are responsible for ensuring that we build the product right. This role ensures that development teams always work on well-prepared, prioritised and clearly defined items. The role translates product direction into actionable development work and ensures that teams can deliver efficiently with minimal ambiguity and interruption.

The Product Owner operates primarily in a sprint-level time horizon and works closely with development teams. We operate in a Scrum-inspired development model within a heavily project-driven environment.

Remote working is a natural part of our jobs, meaning you can choose where you work from, but you will find the most colleagues in Espoo, Turku, Tampere, Kajaani, Kuopio and Stockholm. As an employer, we support and encourage our employees to regularly visit the office to meet colleague as we've identified the benefits of it.

Description of the role and responsibilities

The Product Owner helps ensure development teams can focus on finishing work, not continuously re-scoping or clarifying work during implementation. Strong backlog discipline is essential for improving predictability, delivery quality, and development efficiency. Owning the development backlog and ensuring that work entering a sprint is ready, understood, and valuable. Overall, the role covers:

Backlog ownership and prioritization

• Own and maintain the development backlog

• Ensure backlog items are prioritised according to product direction

• Ensure work entering development is approved and aligned with product priorities

• Continuously refine backlog items together with relevant stakeholders

Work preparation and clarification

• Clarify requirements and scope for development teams

• Ensure backlog items are sufficiently defined before implementation

• Define acceptance criteria

• Ensure items are small enough to be completed within a sprint

• Ensure dependencies are identified and addressed

Sprint collaboration

• Support sprint planning by ensuring work is ready for development

• Help development teams understand priorities and scope

• Ensure teams can focus on completing work rather than clarifying requirements during implementation

• Accept completed work based on agreed acceptance criteria

Quality and completion focus

To perform in this role, you must have:

✅ Strong Finnish and English language skills (written and spoken).

✅ Previous experience working as Product Owner.

✅ Experience managing and prioritising backlog items.

✅ Demonstrated ability to clarify requirements and define acceptance criteria.

✅ Experience working closely with software development teams.

✅ Ability to break down complex topics into implementable work.

We are looking for a person with strong communication and collaboration skills, and interest in utilising AI tools to improve productivity, clarity and quality of work items.

Additional experience and skills we consider beneficial for the role:

➕ working with public administration domain,

➕ working with document management, case management or workflow systems,

➕ working in project-driven environments,

➕ coordinating support, maintenance or hotfix work,

➕ working with Azure DevOps, Jira or similar tools,

➕ understanding of dependencies between teams or systems,

➕ improving backlog structure, refinement practices or sprint readiness,

➕ Swedish language.

Besides this exciting role, we offer:

a community where you have the opportunity to develop together with our amazing customers and skilled colleagues

interesting and challenging work using the latest technologies

flexible working arrangements and a wide range of employer-supported hobby opportunities, as well as work-community events.

friendly colleagues and a dynamic environment where high quality work is done closely together, with a smile on our face.

At Innofactor, we give teams responsibility and freedom, and the job of managers is to support and help the team, not dictate how they should do their work. We have a low-hierarchy organization where employees have the opportunity to influence and develop operations.

Innofactor Dynasty is a leading Nordic information and case management platform that helps public sector and regulated organizations manage documents, cases, decisions, and records in a secure and compliant digital environment. The solution supports end-to-end administrative processes, from document creation and workflow management to decision making, archiving, and publishing, while integrating seamlessly with Microsoft technologies. Used by hundreds of organizations across the Nordics, Dynasty enables more efficient, transparent, and legally compliant information management.

Interested in the job?

Please submit your application latest on Monday 11.5.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the recruitment process, please get in touch with Talent Acquisition Lead, Tomi Mänttäri 040 865 9599, available on Tuesdays 14-16:00 and Wednesdays 08-10:00.

Innofactor is the leading driver of the modern digital organization in the Nordic Countries for its over 1,000 customers in commercial and public sector. Innofactor has the widest solution offering and leading know-how in the Microsoft ecosystem in the Nordics. Innofactor has about 550 enthusiastic and motivated top specialists in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. www.innofactor.com

#PeopleFirst #AIDriven #BeTheRealYou #LI-TM1