At Office App, we optimise working environments. Why? Because we are on a mission to create a Happy Office Life for everyone. With our awesome tenant experience platform, we are disrupting & transforming the traditional real estate market.
Ranked as one of the top Property Technology companies in Europe, we are exponentially growing our team. That’s why we are looking to hire you as our next Product Owner.
You will be working on a revolutionary app in the property industry, used daily by tens of thousands of people, to create a happier office life. Our customers range from large corporates to large landlords and as such you will be responsible for the quality and strategic impact of the delivery of our complex products in a scalable and efficient way.
With your scrum teams you will focus on scaling up our delivery by finding efficiencies, growing our integration portfolio and ensuring we have a transparent backlog.
What your work week will look like
20% of time focused on strategic delivery
- Continuous efficiency improvements to help us scale
- Finding and implementing processes to help the scalability of building launches
- Evaluating potential integration partners
- Developing integration use cases with partners and customers alike
- Validating problems and solutions by researching and talking to customers
40% stakeholder management
- Build and foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Managing and communicating expected timelines and delivery
- Implement any required tools and processes to keep your stakeholders informed
- Ensure you capture your stakeholders feedback and process it into your backlog
30% backlog management
- Create and maintain a backlog that is aligned with the product vision, strategy and roadmap
Advise on and develop solutions together with a team of developers and designers - Prioritise your backlog based on what adds most value in terms of client delivery
- Ensure your backlog is transparant to your stakeholders
Lead product development from refinement of user stories to acceptance testing - Collaborate with your teams to refine the definition-of-done
Accept delivered work by your team and plan your releases
10% of your time
- Discussions, (informal) chats and meetings with colleagues
- Time to have fun and drink a proper coffee
The qualities we’re looking for
Hard skills
- 4+ years experience working as a Product Owner
- Experience working for a B2B product, preferably in an organisation with 3+ scrum teams
- You have a PSPO certification
- Technology excites you, you have a good understanding of generally accepted technologies in the market and can speak the lingo
- Data driven decisions are your preference
- You can evaluate, experiment and validate high risk assumptions to keep moving at a fast pace
- You have a commercial mindset and can detect opportunities and act on them
- We are an international company, so English fluency is a must and any other languages are certainly an advantage
- BIG PLUS: if you have experience working at an internet agency
Soft Skills
- You are a team player. Everyone says that, but what does it mean? We want an open environment where asking questions count as a plus! Discuss your solutions with colleagues and help other Product Owners.
- Keep an helicopter view of what we are doing and see how your work fits in the bigger picture
- You’re also someone that can work independently, sometimes raising your hand, sometimes figuring out solutions online, but always promoting transparency and welcoming feedback so you can adapt what you are doing
- Bring a portion of “gezelligheid” into the team
What you’ll get in return
- Be part of team of A-players with over 10 different nationalities
- Hopefully in a couple of months, the opportunity to work in our awesome centrally located office: Capital C in Amsterdam
- A good work/life balance – we give you 26 days of paid leave
- When possible again, Friday drinks! (during covid we organise some smashing virtual bingo sessions 😉 )
- Celebrate results and help each other grow by sharing failure
- An environment where there is space for own initiatives and where questions are valued
- Space to learn, grow and build an expert role within your own field of work
- A Happy Office Life – we practice what we preach