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Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.\nThe Position\nAs a Technical Product Owner within the Digital Workplace Productivity Engineering Team, part of the Digital Workplace organization in Roche Digital Technology, you will join a team of technology experts responsible for engineering and continuously improving the digital productivity experience for more than 150,000 users.\nOur mission is to enable employees to communicate, collaborate and work more effectively, leveraging Microsoft 365 technologies and emerging AI capabilities to create an integrated, intuitive and modern digital workplace experience.\nA key focus of the team is Microsoft Teams as a central collaboration and productivity hub, connecting communication, meetings, information, applications, workflows and AI-enabled experiences. The team also supports the evolution of productivity capabilities around communication, email and calendaring as part of the overall employee experience.\nThis is a Product Owner role with a high degree of technical depth, combining end-to-end product accountability with strong Microsoft 365 engineering expertise. You will own product priorities and backlog while working closely with stakeholders, architects and engineers on product direction, solution design, technical decisions and delivery.\nYou will translate employee needs, business priorities and technology opportunities into clear product outcomes and actionable engineering work. Your technical expertise will enable you to understand architectural implications and dependencies, challenge requirements and proposed solutions, and make informed trade-offs across employee value, technical feasibility, security, sustainability, risk and delivery effort.\nArtificial Intelligence is an increasingly important part of the Digital Workplace. You will help shape and evaluate AI-enabled productivity experiences, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and emerging AI capabilities, identifying opportunities where AI, collaboration and automation can meaningfully improve how employees work.\nThe ideal candidate combines strong Product Ownership capabilities, deep Microsoft 365 technical expertise, an employee-experience mindset and knowledge of AI-enabled productivity, with the ability to move effectively between product priorities, stakeholder discussions and technical decision-making.\nResponsibilities\nAs part of your day-to-day responsibilities, you will:\nTake end-to-end Product Ownership responsibility for assigned Digital Workplace Productivity capabilities, defining priorities and desired outcomes in alignment with the broader Digital Workplace strategy.\nOwn, prioritize and continuously refine the product backlog, ensuring alignment with product strategy, roadmap, employee value, technical needs, dependencies, risks and engineering capacity.\nTranslate employee needs, business requirements and technology opportunities into clear epics, features and actionable user stories, with well-defined outcomes and acceptance criteria.\nShape product priorities and roadmap with stakeholders, architects, engineers and partner teams, making informed trade-offs across value, technical feasibility, architecture, dependencies, risk and delivery effort.\nApply strong Microsoft 365 technical expertise to guide product and solution decisions, challenge assumptions, understand architectural implications and help ensure solutions are scalable, secure and sustainable.\nGuide the evolution of Microsoft Teams and related Microsoft 365 productivity capabilities across collaboration, communication, meetings, email, calendaring and integrated employee experiences.\nMaintain a deep understanding of the broader Microsoft 365 architecture, components and service dependencies, collaborating across organizational and technology boundaries to address complex cross-service scenarios.\nEvaluate Microsoft 365 roadmap changes and emerging technologies through technical impact assessments, proofs of concept, testing and pilots, supporting controlled and sustainable enterprise adoption.\nExplore and evaluate AI-enabled productivity solutions, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and emerging AI capabilities, identifying valuable use cases while considering information access, identity, permissions, security, privacy, governance and responsible use of AI.\nIdentify opportunities to combine collaboration, automation and AI to simplify employee workflows, reduce repetitive activities and improve access to information.\nDefine and evaluate product outcomes and success measures, using employee feedback, adoption, usage and service insights to continuously improve product value, service quality and employee experience.\nMaintain visibility of priorities, progress, dependencies and risks, collaborating across product, engineering and service teams and contributing technical expertise to solution validation, troubleshooting and complex incidents or technical challenges when needed.\nWho you are\nYou combine a strong Product Owner mindset with deep technical expertise and are comfortable moving between product direction, stakeholder discussions, prioritization, architecture and technical problem solving.\nYou take accountability for product priorities and decisions and can make effective trade-offs across employee value, business needs, technology, risk and delivery constraints.\nYou can translate strategy, employee needs and technology opportunities into clear and executable engineering work, while maintaining focus on product value and outcomes.\nYou have a strong employee-experience and productivity mindset, looking beyond whether technology works to understand how it can make employees more effective.\nYou have the technical credibility to challenge assumptions, evaluate proposed solutions and understand their implications, while partnering effectively with architects and engineering teams.\nYou think end-to-end, recognizing that productivity experiences span multiple technologies, products, services and organizational boundaries.\nYou are passionate about Artificial Intelligence and its potential to transform the digital workplace, and can identify meaningful enterprise use cases.\nYou are proactive, adaptable and comfortable navigating complexity and ambiguity as Microsoft 365, AI and modern workplace technologies evolve.\nYou communicate effectively, collaborate naturally across teams and can influence and create alignment in a global and multicultural environment.\nYou have professional proficiency in English, with strong oral and written communication skills.\nExperience and Technical Skills\nDeep knowledge of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and architecture, particularly its productivity, communication and collaboration capabilities and their dependencies.\nStrong hands-on technical experience with Microsoft Teams and enterprise collaboration technologies, including collaboration, meetings, communication, policies and integrated productivity scenarios.\nStrong understanding of enterprise messaging, Outlook and calendaring concepts and their role within the broader employee productivity experience.\nGood understanding of the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem, including collaboration, content, identity, permissions, information access, security and service dependencies.\nExperience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner or equivalent role, ideally for enterprise technology products, platforms or capabilities.\nPractical experience with Product Ownership and Agile delivery, including backlog ownership, prioritization, roadmap alignment, requirements refinement, user stories and acceptance criteria.\nProven ability to translate complex employee, business and technology needs into clear product requirements, priorities and actionable engineering outcomes.\nUnderstanding of security, privacy, compliance and information-governance principles and how they influence enterprise productivity and AI-enabled solutions.\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities, including the ability to understand complex cross-service technical and architectural dependencies and contribute effectively to complex issues and escalations.\nUnderstanding of Microsoft 365 service lifecycle management, including roadmap evaluation, technical impact assessment, testing, pilots and enterprise adoption.\nStrong understanding of AI-enabled productivity, particularly Microsoft 365 Copilot, including how enterprise information, identity, permissions, security, privacy and governance influence AI experiences.\nExperience with automation or scripting technologies is desirable, while experience with AI technologies, intelligent workplace solutions or conversational experiences is highly desirable.\nRelevant Microsoft certifications and demonstrated 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Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.\nLet’s build a healthier future, together.\nRoche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":10632,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Care","Diagnostic Tests & IVD","Biologics & Biosimilars","Oncology Therapeutics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T12:09:14Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-27T06:39:48Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/roche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/roche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T03:59:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5634,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13531},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13531"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Froche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Froche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Froche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/roche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Froche-technical-product-owner-digital-workplace-productivity-engineering-team"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1392341}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"roche.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1392341},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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