Product Owner (M/F/H)

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Everience Benelux is seeking an experienced Product Owner to lead a multi-disciplinary DevOps team in a high stakes revision of the UBO registers, onsite in Utrecht, with tight legal deadlines and broad stakeholder touchpoints. You will translate legislation and policy changes into concrete goals, maintain a value-driven backlog, manage dependencies, and drive delivery of on-time capabilities to meet statutory obligations. The role demands strong Scrum/Agile practice, five-plus years in complex IT/change programs, proven cross-team leadership, and fluency in Dutch. To apply, customize your CV to show backlog ownership, measurable improvements in customer journeys, and examples of guiding product roadmaps under regulatory pressure; highlight collaboration with business, IT, architecture, and delivery.

Company Description

Everience is an international consulting group delivering AI-augmented digital services and placing people at the heart of the AI revolution.

With a presence in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, Everience offers its 4,000-strong workforce the most demanding and stimulating environment in which to transform and develop theirEverience is an international consulting group delivering AI-augmented digital services and placing people at the heart of the AI revolution.

With a presence in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, Everience offers its 4,000-strong workforce the most demanding and stimulating environment in which to transform and develop their skills, learning about new AI-based roles and building their future employability.

Through its Symbiotic Academy the group offers a unique hub for training, practical application and exchange where everyone can experiment, learn, and progress in the fields of artificial intelligence and data.

In accordance with its core purpose of orchestrating the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI in the workplace, Everience is making the augmented employee the driving force of a “symbiotic age”, where AI enhances talents and opens up new career opportunities. skills, learning about new AI-based roles and building their future employability.

Through its Symbiotic Academy the group offers a unique hub for training, practical application and exchange where everyone can experiment, learn, and progress in the fields of artificial intelligence and data.

In accordance with its core purpose of orchestrating the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI in the workplace, Everience is making the augmented employee the driving force of a “symbiotic age”, where AI enhances talents and opens up new career opportunities.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to play a key role in the large-scale revision of the UBO registers. This revision impacts processes, systems, data quality, and service delivery, and is necessary to comply with amended legislation and future requirements for the UBO register.

The environment is highly complex, with numerous dependencies and tight legal timelines. As Product Owner, you hold end-to-end responsibility for maximizing business value and delivering concrete results within agreed deadlines.

You will work closely with stakeholders from business, legal/regulatory, architecture, delivery, and IT.

You will ensure clear prioritization of work and steer a multidisciplinary DevOps team based on value, risk, and results.

What you'll do:

• Act as Product Owner for a multidisciplinary DevOps team within the UBO domain
• Translate legislation, policy changes, and stakeholder needs into concrete product goals, features, and user stories
• Create, manage, and prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, and legal deadlines
• Drive results, progress, and value creation within the team
• Actively manage dependencies between teams, chain partners, and stakeholders
• Promptly identify, escalate, and mitigate risks affecting statutory delivery obligations
• Collaborate with other Product Owners to deliver the integrated UBO domain roadmap
• Facilitate decision-making and make clear prioritization choices in a high-urgency environment
• Monitor the achievement of milestones and critical deadlines within the program

Deliverables:

• A clearly prioritized, value-driven product backlog
• Functionality delivered on time to support the UBO register revision
• Achievement of agreed roadmap objectives within set timelines
• Transparency on progress, risks, dependencies, and decision-making
• Effective collaboration between business, IT, architecture, and delivery
• Maximum business value from available development capacity
• A demonstrable contribution to meeting statutory obligations related to the UBO registers

Qualifications

• Degree in Business & ICT
• Demonstrable knowledge of government processes
• Demonstrable knowledge of Scrum/Agile
• Current (within the last 7 years) and at least 5 years of demonstrable experience in a customer-facing and/or commercial environment within complex IT and change environments
• Current (within the last 5 years) and demonstrable experience working in/leading multidisciplinary DevOps teams
• Current (within the last 5 years) and demonstrable experience working in or leading teams that drive measurable improvement in customer experience, service, and product offering based on customer insight
• Current (within the last 5 years) and demonstrable experience translating complex business issues, legislation, or policy frameworks into concrete product development
• 5 years of demonstrable experience implementing agile ways of working in multidisciplinary teams
• 5 years of demonstrable experience and proven results in measurably improving customer journeys
• The candidate must be able to communicate fluently in Dutch

Additional Information

All our positions are open to both women and men and are, of course, open to people with disabilities.