Technical Product Owner / Product Manager (Platform Team)
Kaleido, Austria

Kaleido makes Visual AI simple and we offer market leading solutions in the field of automating photo and video editing workflows through artificial intelligence. Kaleido is a Canva company and as such we are working closely with the teams of Canva to empower the world to design. Join our team in Vienna as a PO/PM (m/f/x) for our platform team and help us build software that is being used 200+ million times every month (by 25m+ users)! Together with your team, you will create and extend developer platforms and tooling that allows us to make visual AI accessible for everyone.

• Develop the roadmap for platform products like our ML training frameworks and labeling systems or account management apps in coordination with other product teams and stakeholders (e.g. C-Suite, Engineering Lead) as well as carrying technical knowledge into strategic conversations about the future product roadmap.
• Together with your scrum team, ship improvements that can be leveraged across all our products, boost developer productivity and impact across many release paths (e.g. ML performance, reducing product time-to-market). Help build the foundation/platform for even better user facing products.
• As a member of our cross-functional agile team setup, you’ll be working with a state of the art tech stack and focus on enabling other product teams to build secure and scalable services efficiently.
• Listen to the needs of other product teams, prioritize and weigh up requirements, manage the platform product backlog and foster team progress with the support of the team's Scrum Master.
• Break down ambitious goals into sprint-fitting tickets, write design specs, keep track of progress and keep all stakeholders informed.
• Fostering regular architectural design reviews for new functional projects and proposing common ways of development across dev teams.
• Sharing knowledge, experiences and collectively defining best practices and architectural guidelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in tech/SaaS companies and at least 2+ years in a similar role as (technical) product owner/manager, as well as an educational background in computer science or a related field.
• Ideally you started your career as a developer and found you also had a knack for the product side or you have a background on the product side and developed technical skills over time or.
• Strong technical understanding of common web backend/frontend stacks and also proven experience in software development (including an understanding of protocols and tooling).
• You have gained technical experience in owning public or private APIs as a PO/PM, incl. prioritizing API changes or maintaining (open source) libraries or frameworks.
• Ability to write technical requirements, develop business models and define support requirements and processes.
• Good grasp on the business strategy, as well as know how to handle the direction it is going in.
• Perfect English and intermediate German skills, written and spoken. At Kaleido, the #1 company language is English.
• Passion for technology, AI and photography/video production are a plus.

Benefits

• Work in one of the fastest-growing startups in Austria surrounded by like-minded people. Our visual AI products are industry-leading solutions used by millions of people worldwide.
• Join an international team in Vienna (currently approx. 40 people from 15+ nationalities) and have the ability to co-shape the company and our products.
• We have recently become a part of the Canva family. Our collaboration with teams around the globe supercharges our work to empower the world to design. You will have the chance to work closely with teams from Kaleido and Canva.

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