Senior Product Owner at Twake Workplace

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About us and the product
LINAGORA is a French open source software company. We build products that enable organizations to retain control over their data and digital infrastructure.
Our product, Twake Workplace, is a unified collaboration platform combining:

• Video conferencing
• Documents and an office suite
• Drive
• Email powered by Apache James
• Chat powered by Matrix
• Calendar
• Notes

Twake Workplace is available both as SaaS and as an on-premise solution deployed on customer infrastructure.
We develop a common product platform while delivering customer-specific developments for enterprise clients, with a strong focus on preserving product consistency and long-term scalability.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a strong Senior Product Owner with a proven track record of launching and developing successful SaaS products.

Our main selection criteria are:

• Concrete achievements
• Your personal contribution to the results
• Professional references from people who have worked with you, including colleagues, managers, and members of product and engineering teams

Experience at Yandex, Miro, Revolut, or other major technology companies with a strong product culture is particularly interesting to us.
We expect you to be able to clearly demonstrate:

• Which products or product areas you developed
• Which decisions you made
• How those decisions affected users and the business

You will work directly under the Vice President Product & Software Development and collaborate with an international team of more than 40 developers, designers, technical leads, and commercial teams.

Your mission
Turn product strategy into clear priorities, high-quality releases, and measurable growth in the value Twake Workplace delivers to users and customers.
Your responsibilitiesDiscovery and user experience
Understand the needs of users and enterprise customers, conduct interviews, analyze feedback and data, and validate hypotheses.

Roadmap and prioritization
Prepare product development proposals, evaluate value, effort, and dependencies, and align priorities with the Vice President Product & Software Development.

Development preparation
Define requirements, user scenarios, and acceptance criteria, and maintain a clear and up-to-date backlog.

Module coordination
Ensure a consistent user experience across Mail, Chat, Drive, documents, video, calendar, and notes.

Releases and quality
Work with engineering, design, and QA to bring solutions through to release, conduct product acceptance, and evaluate results after launch.

SaaS growth
Improve:

• Onboarding
• Activation
• Paid conversion
• Adoption of key features
• Retention

Contribute to pricing and monetization decisions.

Go-to-market
Work with marketing, sales, and support to prepare launches, including:

• Value proposition
• Demos
• Marketing and sales materials
• Success criteria

On-premise and customer-specific developments
Translate customer requests into product requirements, identify opportunities for reuse, and assess the impact of custom developments on the overall roadmap, support, and future upgrades.
You will independently lead the preparation and execution of solutions within agreed priorities.
Product strategy, roadmap, and key product decisions are subject to final validation by the Vice President Product & Software Development.

Mandatory requirements

• Significant experience as a Senior Product Owner or Senior Product Manager in a technology product company.
• Successful experience working on a SaaS product, including participation in its launch and subsequent development with measurable results.
• Ability to demonstrate concrete achievements, including:
• The initial situation
• Your area of responsibility
• Decisions made
• Results achieved
• Timeframe
• Professional references from colleagues and managers who can confirm your contribution, quality of collaboration, and ownership of results.
• Strong product analytics skills, including the ability to formulate and validate hypotheses and justify priorities based on user and business value.
• Experience working with multiple engineering teams and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Strong technical literacy, including an understanding of:
• APIs
• Integrat