Digital Product Owner

Overview

IMI plc

IMI plc is a sector focused organisation at the forefront of delivering motion and fluid control technologies that create a more sustainable world, improving the quality of life for our customers and communities and ultimately delivering our purpose of Breakthrough Engineering for a Better World.

Embracing comfort and sustainability in homes and commercial spaces. We specialise in hydronic valves and control systems that deliver warmth, comfort, and energy efficiency. From cosy residence to bustling commercial building, we create the perfect environment while reducing energy consumption.

Our one big team work fairly and effectively but most importantly together to ensure we maintain the foundations that have enabled IMI’s success through over 150 years of heritage.

Role Overview

We are currently seeking a dynamic individual located in Switzerland to work with our engineering units in Mont-Saint-Guibert and Brežice, Slovenia as a Digital Product Owner. Our specialized teams focus on electronic and software development for hydronic circuits within heating and air-conditioning systems.

In this role, your first primary responsibility will be to actively contribute to the development of our connected hydronic range.

Key Responsibilities

You join the team to work on the development of the embedded web apps and mobile apps for configuration of our industrial connected devices. The objective is to bring the easiness of consumer products to professionals while ensuring a strong reliability.

You will be an be an integral part of the electronics and software team located in Belgium and will work closely with the mechanical R&D team located in Slovenia.

You translate product roadmap into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.

You prioritize and maintain the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders.

You develop detailed product feature specifications and ensure they are clearly understood by the development team.

You refine the product functional design based on an intimate knowledge of the customers, technology and hydronics. You actively work with the mechanical R&D team to ensure seamless mechatronic integration.

You actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals.

You document the implementations and actively participate to the knowledge transfer in the team.

You keep a constant technological watch to propose pertinent and innovative evolutions.

Critical Competencies for Success

Background in product development with a good overall vision of embedded electronics and software.

Balance of digital knowledge, hydronic expertise and business value around feature/functions.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire team and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.

Willing to mingle with teammates working on all parts of the digital ecosystem (embedded software, cloud, iOS/Android, industrial communication protocols).

High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability.

Good knowledge and practice with Agile processes and principles, Git, embedded software development, cloud and databases.

Master’s degree required.

Good practical knowledge of English is a must; proficiency in French is a plus.

Motivated, eager to learn, flexible and collaborative.

Ability to travel between R&D offices in Belgium and Slovenia (and manufacturing in Poland).

Good Reasons To Join Us

A rich, various and motivating function in an advanced professional environment with strong responsibility on the assigned missions.

A highly collaborative work in a dynamic team of 17 passionate experts.

The possibility to bring your know-how to the service of a growing division that is part of the international engineering group IMI.

IMI is an inclusive employer; diversity is very important to us, and we want to received applications from people from all backgrounds