Lead Product Owner (F/H)

10 Minutes ago • 7 Years + • Product

Job Summary

Job Description

As Lead Product Owner, you will lead a product squad and manage two other Product Owners. Your core responsibilities include building and executing the strategic and operational product roadmap, overseeing delivery, and enhancing user experience. You will standardize product practices, maintain a prioritized backlog, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Additionally, you will mentor and develop your team, foster a strong product culture, and contribute to recruitment and process improvement, ensuring alignment and impact.
Must have:
  • Responsible for a product squad while managing two other POs
  • Build strategic and operational roadmap
  • Drive delivery
  • Continuously improve user experience
  • Disseminate product culture
  • Participate in defining and evolving product strategy
  • Pilot standardization of product practices
  • Write INVEST user stories and detailed use cases
  • Maintain a structured and prioritized backlog
  • Collaborate with developers, product designers, QA, and business teams
  • Validate development deliverables
  • Monitor and analyze functional and business KPIs
  • Ensure communication and alignment among stakeholders
  • Manage Product Owners, challenge them, and guide strategic alignment
  • Establish product synchronization rituals
  • Instill a strong product culture within squads
  • Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and evolution of the product team
  • Drive continuous improvement of processes, tools, and interactions
Good to have:
  • PSPO 1 certification
Perks:
  • Flexible remote organization (residing in IDF) / Flex Office in Levallois Perret
  • Friendly events (aperitifs, escape games, karaokes, indoor football, gaming)
  • Annual performance bonus (10%)
  • Employee savings (CET, PEE, PERCO)
  • Competitive social benefits (SWILE Restaurant card, ALAN mutual insurance, external CE)

Job Details

The position

Job description

Who are we? 📌

Koala Interactive is a fast-growing, human-sized company, in charge of Wyylde, the social network that allows exploring the diversity of sexual practices, in a secure environment. Leader in France since 2016, Wyylde has over 7 million registered users and 700,000 visits per day. After the successful acquisition of NSF (Nuit Sans Folie) in 2020, and our expansion into Italy, Spain, and Germany, we are looking to strengthen our team with passionate talents to continue our international adventure.

Our values: Freedom, Respect, Responsibility. They are not just words, but the foundation of our company culture.

At Koala Interactive, you will have the opportunity to work in an environment that values your creativity and autonomy, while respecting your work-life balance thanks to remote work.

Role 🎯

As Lead Product Owner, you will be responsible for a product squad while managing two other POs. You will play a key role in building our strategic and operational roadmap, driving delivery, continuously improving the user experience, and disseminating product culture.

Missions and Responsibilities ✅

Operational:

  • Actively participate in the definition and evolution of the product strategy alongside the CPO, ensuring its proper operational implementation within your squad.
  • Drive the standardization of product practices (methodological framework, tools, quality requirements, documentation) and ensure their adoption across all three squads.
  • Write INVEST user stories, detailed use cases, and maintain a structured and prioritized backlog in line with the product vision.
  • Collaborate closely with developers, product designers, QA, and business teams to ensure deliverables.
  • Validate development deliverables.
  • Monitor and analyze functional and business KPIs to track the impact of delivered features.
  • Ensure communication and alignment among stakeholders.

Management:

  • Manage the two Product Owners, challenge them, and guide the strategic alignment of their roadmaps while fostering their skill development.
  • Establish product synchronization rituals (roadmap reviews, metric sharing, dependency management).
  • Instill a strong product culture within the squads: accountability, sense of impact, qualitative rigor.
  • Participate in the recruitment, onboarding, and evolution of the product team.
  • Drive a dynamic of continuous improvement of processes, tools, and interactions in a logic of collective efficiency.

Skills ⭐

Hard Skills

  • Minimum 7 years of experience in product and/or project management with a recent experience in a management role.
  • Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies (Scrum) and ideally of scaled agile methodologies (SAFe, Nexus).
  • Understanding of software development processes and associated technologies.
  • Understanding of technical, product, and business challenges in a growth context.
  • PSPO 1 certification appreciated.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and synthesis skills.
  • Strong sense of active listening, benevolent leadership.
  • Adaptability to changing priorities.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines.
  • Autonomous in decision-making and problem-solving.
  • Ability to analyze data and use analytical tools to measure the impact of features.
  • Team spirit and feedback culture.

Details 💼

Benefits:

  • Remote work: Flexible remote organization (residing in IDF) / Flex Office in Levallois Perret.
  • Friendly events: Aperitifs, escape games, karaokes, indoor football, gaming, and much more.
  • Motivating compensation: Annual performance bonus (10%).
  • Employee savings: CET, PEE, PERCO for your future projects.
  • Competitive social benefits: SWILE Restaurant card, ALAN mutual insurance, external CE.

Recruitment process:

  • HR phone pre-qualification
  • Technical interview with our CPO
  • Technical and managerial test
  • Presentation of the test before the CPO

For a policy in favor of the integration of people with disabilities, the proposed position is open to all.

For more information about our work environment: Koala Interactive | Welcome to the Jungle.

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About The Company

Koala Interactive, là où l’innovation rencontre l’amusement ! Nous sommes une entreprise animée par une ambition forte : créer des expériences innovantes et fun, toujours centrées sur l’utilisateur. Voici ce que l'on fait :WYYLDE : Plus qu'un réseau, une expérience ! Notre réseau social Wyylde est dédié aux célibataires, aux couples et aux curieux de tous horizons, avec une communauté respectueuse et ouverte.

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