We are seeking an Expert Product Owner to join our team in Brussels, Belgium. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing and refining the product backlog, ensuring short- and long-term priorities are well known, and communicating product vision and requirements to the team. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in IT and 16 years of relevant experience, as well as experience with Agile methodologies and DevSecOps principles.
Requirements
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of the goals, constraints, and desired objectives of the products
- Own, manage, and continuously refine the product backlog
- Ensure short- and long-term priorities are well known, agreed, and committed by the business
- Communicate product vision, requirements, and to the team during backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and other relevant ceremonies
- Interact with and validate requirements with the business unit(s) and other stakeholders
- Ensure alignment between GUI and API capabilities
- Plan and coordinate delivery activities across iterations
- Track progress, ensuring transparency of delivery status, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and decisions
- Coordinate dependencies with other teams, corporate platforms, services, and external stakeholders
- Support/lead defect triage, prioritization, and follow-up to resolution
- Coordinate business acceptance activities (UAT)
- Contribute to release readiness
- Regular progress reporting and prepare concise status updates and decision material for project governance and senior stakeholders
- Produce and maintain delivery artefacts as required
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
- Full benefits package