Technical Product Owner 

Location: Leuven 

Duration: 1 year, with possible extension

Desired Start Date: 04/05/2026

Work Regime: Full-time, with an onsite presence required 3 days a week

Responsibilities:

• Product Ownership: Lead the digital portal product, including its vision, build, and ongoing evolution. Define and maintain a product roadmap at least 9 months ahead, aligning with organizational priorities and user needs. Ensure the product delivers measurable value and continuously improves based on feedback and data.
• Backlog & Delivery Management: Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring items are clearly defined, prioritized, and ready for development. Break down large initiatives and epics into manageable user stories and tasks. Ensure features and stories progress through development and reach completion with clear acceptance criteria.
• Development Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers, portfolio manager, functional analysts, and technical architect to ensure a shared understanding of requirements. Provide day-to-day guidance to the development team and help unblock issues when they arise. Ensure the team is focused on the highest-priority work that delivers value.
• Quality & Delivery Assurance: Maintain accountability for the quality of delivered features and releases. Validate that completed work meets defined requirements and acceptance criteria. Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with technical standards.
• Agile Product Management: Apply Agile principles and practices in planning, backlog management, and iteration cycles together with the scrum master. Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives. Foster continuous improvement in team processes and delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs, gather requirements, and communicate progress. Translate business objectives into clear product priorities. Provide transparency into roadmap progress, delivery timelines, and product outcomes.

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, or similar role in digital product development.

• Strong experience managing product backlogs, roadmaps, and Agile delivery processes.
• Ability to break down complex initiatives into structured epics, stories, and deliverables.
• Experience working as part of software development teams.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or similar).
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate product vision, goals, requirements, and KPIs to stakeholders and development teams.
• Analytical skills to assess market trends, user feedback, and product performance for prioritizing backlog and making data-driven decisions.
• Leadership and collaboration skills to lead a team towards achieving the product vision and foster collaboration.
• Customer focus to understand customer needs and preferences and translate these insights into actionable features.
• Strategic thinking to align product development with longer-term business objectives, including understanding market dynamics, competitive landscape, and complex business needs.

Technical Understanding:

• Working knowledge of software development concepts and system architecture.

• Ability to engage in technical discussions with developers and understand trade-offs.
• Comfortable working with technical documentation, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities.

Key Attributes:

• Strong product ownership mindset and accountability for outcomes.

• Clear communicator who can bridge business and technical teams.
• Structured thinker who can translate complex ideas into actionable work.
• Proactive problem solver with a focus on delivery and quality.