Living Homes is a pioneering Smart Home company and an Applied Research & Development Lab on a mission to conceptualize and create the truly intelligent human-centric Home of the Future. We are building the next-generation AI-driven home management platform that seamlessly integrates IoT, Robotics, Virtual Reality, Cloud and Edge Computing technologies. This platform makes the Home of the Future truly intuitive, comfortable, caring and adaptive to its inhabitants’ needs.

Our R&D team comprises of 20 highly skilled and experienced technology, product, and business professionals. The team is uniquely positioned for success as our colleagues have long-term professional experience (14 years on average) with strong expertise in all relevant areas, including AI/ML, IoT, VR, Robotics, Cloud-native Development and Smart Home.

We are on the lookout for an experienced Product Manager to join our team in Sofia. In this role you will be driving the product strategy of our AI-driven home management platform. We are looking for a highly skilled, autonomous, and initiative-taking professional with significant experience and a proven track record of managing successful products. In this role you will also act as abridge between various stakeholders, such as executive management, partners, marketing team and our development teams.

• Develop, maintain and communicate the product roadmap in alignment with the product vision, business objectives and strategic goals, ensuring all team members share a common understanding
• Prioritize new product development based on strategic value, user impact, and available development capacity
• Create, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring the features are well-defined and aligned with the product roadmap
• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria for software engineers
• Lead the backlog grooming/refinement meetings, participate in sprint planning and review sessions, ensuring that the development team has a clear understanding of the product features and their end-user value
• Participate in functional testing and validation of product implementations

To be successful in this role, we believe a mix of technical and soft skills is required. Below, you can see what we think are the characteristics of the 'ideal candidate':

• 5 or more years of experience as a Product Owner, preferably in a complex application development environment (ideally in a scale-up/start-up)following Agile methodologies
• Significant experience in working on products that are technical in nature - used by engineers and software systems
• Experience in producing clear and comprehensive business requirements, feature descriptions, user stories and justifications
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal – with ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and business teams
• Fluent English
• Technical background with understanding and experience with the concept sand process of software systems engineering
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a passion for identifying issues and for conceptualizing, evaluating and implementing solutions
• Experience using of project management tools (Jira, AzureDevOps, MSProject)
• Some knowledge of Machine Learning, AI and basic database concepts
• Experience in planning and leading effective meetings and workshops
• Keen interest in Smart Home and IoT technologies, with a desire to create innovative smart living solutions. Experience in these areas is a big advantage
• Ability and willingness to work independently, to proactively confront challenges, and to adapt to rapidly changing project demands

• ‍Paid leave: Benefit from 25 days of paid leave, ensuring you have ample time to recharge

• Sports card: Stay active and healthy with a subsidized sports subscription card with various options for sports activities

• ‍Additional health insurance package: Enjoy an additional health insurance package covered in full by the company

• ‍Food vouchers: 200 BGN worth of groceries and food vouchers are provided on top of your monthly salary

• ‍Convenient office location: Our office in Sofia is located at a very convenient and well-connected area, right next to the Joliot-Curie underground station

• ‍Food and drinks at the office: Enjoy fresh fruits, snacks, and beverages available daily to keep you energized and refreshed at work

• ‍Flexibility: Take advantage of our flexible working time and home office options

• ‍Hardware and software tools and gadgets: Use the chance for experimenting and working with the latest hardware and software technologies available worldwide that you might need

• ‍Professional development: We foster continuous learning and professional upskilling of our team members through workshops, courses, certifications and participation in international conferences and expo events

• ‍Collaborative team environment: Join a friendly team of motivated, talented and experienced IT, product, and business professionals

• ‍Beyond work: Have fun and build strong personal relations at our regular team-building activities and organized social events