Product Owner

Product Owner Porto, Portugal | Product Engineering | Medior and Senior | m/f/d Why SOFICO At SOFICO, we develop Miles, our enterprise software platform for automotive finance, leasing, fleet and mobility management. Our products support complex business processes throughout the lifecycle of a finance or leasing contract, from quotation and pricing to contract management, billing, assets, services and integrations. We are looking for our office in Porto for Product Owners who bring strong business domain knowledge and want to turn it into software that creates lasting value for our customers. You may already be a Product Owner, or be a business analyst or functional consultant ready to take the next step into product ownership. What the job is about We are growing our Product team across several business domains, including Vehicle Catalogue, Finance, and Credit & KYC (Know Your Customer). Depending on your expertise and interests, you will take ownership within one of these domains, working closely with a Product Manager and a dedicated engineering team. Working closely with the Product Manager, you translate the domain roadmap into a clear, prioritized backlog. You connect customers, implementation teams and engineering, balancing immediate customer commitments with improvements that can be reused across the global product. Your domain’s APIs are products in their own right. You understand who uses them, which problems they solve and how changes affect consumers. You work with engineers and architects on the technical details; your focus is the value, usability and continuity of the API product. What you will do Turn business problems and roadmap priorities into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and achievable team objectives . Own and refine the team backlog. Make transparent decisions about business value, urgency, scope and dependencies. Challenge customer requests constructively and turn individual needs into reusable, configurable product capabilities. Work with developers, architects and other domain teams to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies and support delivery. Validate delivered functionality against agreed acceptance criteria and gather feedback from customers and internal stakeholders. Include API consumer needs in product decisions, covering clear behaviour , documentation and the impact of changes. Use AI tools to support analysis, refinement and documentation, applying your domain judgement to validate their output. Your skills and interests You bring strong business knowledge gained in finance, leasing, asset finance, asset management or a related environment. You understand complex business processes and can translate them into clear product requirements and priorities. Relevant domain expertise matters more to us than your current job title: we also welcome business analysts and functional consultants with the ambition and openness to coaching needed to grow into product ownership. Experience as a Product Owner, business analyst, functional consultant or in a comparable role connecting business needs with software delivery. The ability to analyse <span data-ccp-paras