Technical Product Owner - Digital Workplace Productivity

About the role

Roche is hiring a Technical Product Owner for its Digital Workplace Productivity Engineering Team, part of the Digital Workplace organization in Roche Digital Technology, based in Madrid. The team engineers and continuously improves the digital productivity experience for more than 150,000 users, focusing on Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365, with a strong emphasis on AI-enabled productivity such as Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product ownership of assigned Digital Workplace capabilities, defining priorities and outcomes aligned with the broader strategy.
• Prioritize and refine the product backlog, and turn employee needs and business requirements into epics, features and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Shape priorities and roadmap with stakeholders, architects and engineers, making trade-offs across value, feasibility, architecture, risk and delivery effort.
• Guide the evolution of Microsoft Teams and related Microsoft 365 capabilities across collaboration, communication, meetings, email and calendaring.
• Evaluate Microsoft 365 roadmap changes and emerging technologies through impact assessments, PoCs, testing and pilots.
• Evaluate AI-enabled solutions such as Microsoft 365 Copilot, considering security, privacy, governance and responsible use of AI.
• Define product outcomes and success measures, and keep priorities, progress, dependencies and risks visible.

Required profile

• Product Owner mindset combined with deep technical expertise, able to move between product direction, stakeholder discussions and technical decisions.
• Strong employee-experience and productivity mindset, with an end-to-end view of productivity experiences.
• Passion for AI and its potential to transform the digital workplace.
• Professional proficiency in English, with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner or equivalent, preferably for enterprise technology products.

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and architecture, especially productivity, communication and collaboration.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Teams, Outlook and calendaring.
• Agile delivery, backlog ownership, prioritization, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Understanding of security, privacy, compliance and information governance.
• Desirable: automation or scripting, AI technologies, conversational experiences, and Microsoft 365 certifications.