Product Owner (m/f/d)
BARCELONA, B, ES, 08005
130 years of trust, time to shape what's next. Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers - built on over a century of stability, expertise, and financial strength. Allianz Services is where that legacy meets the future. 8,200+ people. Eight countries. Three continents. We deliver specialized services to clients within Allianz Group, powered by AI, advanced analytics, and a mindset that refuses to stand still. From core insurance operations to engineering and consulting services, we reimagine how insurance works. What truly sets us apart are our people and the trusted partnerships we build, anchored in our values of expertise, integrity, and empowerment. We don't support the business. We shape it.
Role Overview:
The Product Owner (m/f/d) is responsible for maximizing the value delivered by Agile teams by defining, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog in alignment with Allianz Group’s business and transformation objectives. Operating in a Scaled Agile environment, the role acts as the primary interface between business stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring clarity of requirements, transparency of priorities, and compliance with Allianz governance standards.
The Product Owner (m/f/d) works closely with Scrum Masters, Architects, Developers, and business stakeholders and reports functionally to the Tribe or Program Lead within Operations Engineering & Transformation.
What you do:
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Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring alignment with product vision, business value, and strategic priorities.
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Define, refine, and prioritize user stories with clear acceptance criteria and non‑functional requirements.
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Act as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams.
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Participate actively in PI planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
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Ensure end‑to‑end traceability from business objectives to delivered outcomes, including governance and regulatory requirements.
What you bring:
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University degree (bachelor's or equivalent experience) Field of study flexible (e.g. Business, Engineering, IT, or a related field).
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8–12 years of experience in Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Agile delivery roles with proven hands‑on experience working in Agile / SAFe environments.
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Strong knowledge of insurance business processes, preferably Property & Casualty products.
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Practical experience using JIRA and Confluence for backlog and delivery management.
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Ability to translate complex business needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
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Good level of English (required), with other languages (e.g. Spanish or additional European languages) being a plus.
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We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.
What we offer:
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We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
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We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
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From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
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Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.
About Allianz
Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.
Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company expects from its employees a general openness and a high motivation to regularly change positions and collect experiences across Allianz Group.
