Technical Product Owner

Hitachi delivers innovations that answer society’s challenges. With our talented team and proven experience in global markets, we can inspire the world. At Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science, we develop and manufacture reliable products for materials analysis in demanding fields such as environmental applications, recycling, and quality control. We’re helping thousands of businesses streamline their costs, minimise risk and increase production efficiency. Our vision is to bring best-in-class user experience to high-technology instruments.

We are now looking for a Technical Product Owner for a permanent position in our team in Espoo. You will join a small, agile R&D team developing a cloud service for industrial analytical instruments. Our IoT platform enables instruments to upload data and diagnostics, which customers access via web and mobile applications. Internally, we maintain diagnostic and configuration tools. We are now expanding our team to strengthen software testing, quality assurance and requirements management.

Every team member gets to influence our technology choices and ways of working. In addition to the software team, you will collaborate with experienced hardware designers, scientists and product managers. Our products also use fascinating technology such as X-rays and lasers.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Translating customer and internal stakeholder input into clear, actionable requirements

Organizing implementation work based on priorities set by product management

Maintaining traceability between requirements, implementation, and testing

Building and maintaining end-to-end automated tests for web, mobile, and cloud components

Improving development and quality practices with the team

This role is well-suited for someone with a software testing background who wants to broaden their responsibilities and develop into a technical product owner position.

The person we are looking for has:

Strong understanding of web and m