Product Owner - Recommendation Engine

Company Description

Welcome to Byborg! As a leader in IT and streaming solutions, we specialize in delivering high-quality services that offer premium online experiences.

Headquartered in Luxembourg and operating globally, our company is proud of its diversity, with over 40 different nationalities working side by side. Since its launch, our flagship product has led the market, continually pushing the boundaries of digital innovation. Today, working with the latest technology, our platforms serve millions of users daily.

We are proud of our dynamic portfolio, featuring over 16 leading and fast-growing brands. These include our streaming platforms (LiveJasmin.com, Cherry.TV, IsLive.com, Oranum.com), our marketing and advertising services (AdSupply, AWEmpire, TwinRed), and our entertainment and lifestyle brands (LoyalFans.com, The Million Roses, Kinkly.com).

Are you looking for new challenges in an international, collaborative environment? The Byborg squad is seeking passionate individuals ready to make an impact. Join us in our inclusive workplace where you will be appreciated, and you can grow and achieve your potential. Help us shape the future!

Job Description

The Product Owner manages the product backlog, aligning priorities with global strategies to drive business outcomes. This role focuses on shaping personalized user experiences through recommendation systems, working closely with the Product Management Office (PMO) and technical teams to ensure value delivery. While not deeply technical, a strong understanding of data-driven processes and recommendation mechanisms is essential. 

Responsibilities 

• Backlog Management: Maintain a clean, prioritized backlog aligned with business goals, resources, and dependencies. Communicate decisions effectively to stakeholders and development teams, ensuring transparency and readiness for development.
• Recommendation Strategy: Define and execute strategies leveraging user behavior data (e.g., watch-time, conversions) to improve recommendations. Monitor and optimize key metrics like click-through rates, churn, and engagement, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
• Roadmap Planning & Execution: Develop and maintain a clear product roadmap, tying initiatives to strategic goals. Coordinate releases, ensuring timely delivery of features and alignment with business priorities.
• Collaboration & Data Integration: Partner with Analytics, UX, and Development teams to integrate data insights into actionable product enhancements. Facilitate A/B testing, user feedback analysis, and iteration planning to improve the recommendation engine.
• Market Awareness & Optimization: Monitor industry trends and competitor offerings to identify feature gaps and propose improvements. Ensure recommendation systems stay competitive and relevant.
• Product Health: Oversee product performance, address bugs, and allocate sprint capacity for maintenance and improvements. Validate features in production to ensure they meet user expectations and acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Product Management Experience: Previous experience in a similar product management role, ideally involving personalization, recommendation engines, or data-driven features.
• Foundational Technical Knowledge: Understanding of software development, web technologies, and how data pipelines feed into recommendation systems - no coding skills needed, but must be able to liaise effectively with technical teams.
• Agile Process & Principles: Proven track record of working in Agile environments, facilitating backlogs, sprints, and iterative product enhancements - particularly relevant for continuous optimization of recommendation logic.
• Data & Analytics Mindset: Sharp analytical skills; ability to translate data insights into actionable roadmap items.
• Strong Communication & Negotiation: Ability to present ideas persuasively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring buy-in for recommendation-focused initiatives.
• Market & Industry Insight: In-depth understanding of industry market conditions and trends, with a particular focus on user personalization and competitor approaches in recommendation systems.
• User-Centric Focus: Passion for leveraging technology to enhance consumer experiences, especially through personalized content and performer recommendations.
• Problem-Solving Abilities: Capacity to identify gaps in recommendation performance, propose solutions, and collaborate with Data/Engineering teams to refine algorithms and features.
• Attention to Detail: Ensuring thorough requirement gathering and acceptance criteria, especially when optimizing highly dynamic recommendation scenarios.
• Organizational Skills: Capable of juggling multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously, maintaining a clear and prioritized backlog, and coordinating iterative improvements to the recommendation engine.

Additional Information

What we offer 

• An exceptional compensation package along with relocation support to help you move to the Grand Duchy.
• Your health is our wealth: private health insurance and free gym membership.
• On top of the minimum 26 vacation days, we also provide additional days the longer you work for us.
• We offer breakfast for our employees every day to help them begin the workday.
• The opportunity to see your work directly contribute to the success of the company.
• When you grow, we grow: You have the chance to attend events, meetups, and other perks for your professional growth.
• You’re joining a family and you are going to look the part! We give out company-branded merchandise and clothes to every single new joiner.

Byborg Enterprises is an equal employment opportunity employer. We consider individuals for employment based on their skills, abilities and experience. We thrive to attract and hire a strong, talented and diverse workforce, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religious or political beliefs, age, nationality, physical, mental or developmental disability, gender, sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER: This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at management's discretion. 

During the recruitment process candidates will be requested to provide with a recent criminal record extract for background screening purpose.

NOTE: Byborg Enterprises does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. We consider any resume (CV) or biography received from an agency without prior approval from our Legal and Recruiting Department to be unsolicited, and such submissions will not be recognized for purposes of “ownership” of the candidate.