Product Owner

Product Owner   Location: Wrocław - 2 days in office / 3 days remote   Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.   The opportunity   As a  Product Owner within the Product Incubation Team , you will play a critical role in shaping what digital products are built and why — ensuring they deliver meaningful value as EY modernizes its core ERP and finance platforms. Working at the intersection of business needs, user outcomes, and technical feasibility, you will help turn early‑stage ideas into clearly defined, value‑driven products that are ready to be validated, scaled, or stopped. You will operate in fast‑moving, early‑stage product environments, leading discovery, defining product vision and scope, and guiding teams through rapid experimentation via proofs‑of‑concept, MVPs, pilots, and beta releases. From concept through validation and scale‑out, your product decisions—prioritisation, trade‑offs, and value assessment—will directly influence whether a product is scaled globally, pivoted, or retired. Sitting within the  Mercury Support Team (MST),  you will collaborate closely with Engineers, UX Designers, Solution Architects, and global stakeholders across Finance and Enterprise Technology. You will balance innovation speed with enterprise realities, ensuring products are aligned to strategic priorities, grounded in real user needs, and positioned for secure, compliant, and scalable adoption across the firm. This role offers a unique opportunity to:

Shape greenfield and evolving products that modernize core ERP and finance processes Influence outcomes through early product definition, prioritisation, and evidence‑based decision‑making See products progress from experimentation to enterprise‑wide rollout Work in a team that combines startup‑style product agility with enterprise scale and impact

Your key responsibilities   Product vision, value & business case support:

Define and evolve a clear product vision aligned to business objectives, user needs, and EY transformation priorities Translate complex problems into product outcomes, success measures, and value hypotheses Support the development and refinement of business cases by contributing product insights, assumptions, success metrics, and validation evidence Provide input to go / no‑go, pivot, or scale decisions through clear documentation and data‑driven insights

Work closely with Solution Architects, Business Analysts and Engineering Leads to shape and maintain the solution blueprint, aligning business intent, user needs, and technical feasibility Own and prioritise the product backlog across incubation stages (PoC, MVP, pilot, beta) Balance value, feasibility, dependencies, and risk when sequencing and refining backlog items

Lead discovery and validation with UX Designers, Engineers, and Business Analysts Define hypotheses, MVP scope, and validation criteria for rapid experimentation Use insights from user feedback, pilots, and metrics to inform scale, pivot, or stop recommendations

Act as the primary point of alignment between business stakeholders and delivery teams Partner with Engineering Leads and Solution Architects to ensure product intent is clearly understood and delivered Participate in planning, refinement, reviews, and demos, facilitating trade‑offs across scope, time, quality, and risk

Prepare validated products for handover to delivery and operations teams, ensuring clarity on scope, roadmap, value, and assumptions Ensure product, process, and solution artefacts support secure, compliant, and scalable adoption Capture learnings and reusable assets to accelerate future incubation