Associate Product Manager

Who we are

Ionik
, a premier IT service provider
located in Malaga and Madrid,
empowers progressive businesses to boost operational efficiency, enhance productivity, and accelerate revenue growth through tailored, strategic solutions. We go beyond analysis.
We drive innovation.

Your mission

We are looking for a passionate Associate Product Manager to join our DevOps department. Our mission is to create new and awesome tools that will empower our development teams to do things in a faster and safer way, whilst standardising processes to ensure all development teams are aligned with each other.

The DevOps department sets the strategy and direction for tools and standards that support our Software Development Lifecycle, including but not limited to: CI/CD, source code and binaries management, platform solutions (Kubernetes, Observability), database provisioning, and infrastructure automation.

As an Associate Product Manager in this space, you will ensure our vision and roadmaps are in line with business's objectives. You will work alongside other Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, and our clients. You will interact with people across our entire company. It is a great opportunity to help us further mature the overall DevOps ecosystem and to deliver impactful and scalable initiatives across the company.

What you'll do

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Associate Product Manager to help mature our delivery process. You will be part of a highly-skilled DevOps team that is usually involved in projects with the rest of the business units. You will be working on these areas:

• Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
• Accept user stories at the end of each iteration
• Participate in team demos and retrospectives
• Ensure that feature demos are presented to customers early and often
• Work closely with the product managers to decompose program backlogs into iteration backlogs by just-in-time story elaboration
• Help define and drive product vision, strategy, and metrics, galvanising teams to follow you
• Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements, including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Balance needs around usability, productivity, security, and scale to create optimal experiences for our current and future clients
• Work with Engineering to ensure healthy delivery – including technical capabilities, happiness, resilience, and growth, as well as determining what we buy over what we build.
• Ensure the team is doing the right things. A healthy balance of innovation, support, and maintenance is key for successful teams at Ionik.

What you'll bring

• You have a strong technical background and wide knowledge of the DevOps world.
• You are passionate about balancing delivery with exceptional user experience
• A customer-first mindset
• A high degree of proficiency in iterative development, understanding of Agile principles - Scaled Agile frameworks is a plus
• Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
• Technical background with knowledge of software development and web technologies
• Excellent organizational skills
• Product Owner Qualifications
• A proactive self-starter attitude, with excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire internal teams & stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• A high degree of organisation, individual initiative, and personal accountability
• An established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles

What's in it for you

• Hybrid working (3 days at home – 2 in the office)
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Gym membership subsidy (50% reimbursement - up to 35 EUR/month)
• Personal development budget (600 EUR per year)
• Corporate pension plan
• Health insurance for you and your family, and life insurance
• Flexible remuneration for meal tickets, public transport, and childcare
• English and Spanish language classes
• Free psychotherapy sessions
• Relocation package for you and your family
• Company bus for your daily commute
• Free breakfast, drinks, and snacks throughout your workday
• Fun socials – from weekly happy hour drinks to big seasonal events