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Technical Product Owner (Temporary assignment)
Computer and IT - Leuven | Just now
Looking for a technical product owner for the imec portal, to own the digital product, delivery and manage the development team for a high pace delivery of quality and functionality
Technical product owner (temporary assignment)
We are looking for a Technical Product Owner to lead the development and continuous improvement of our digital customer portal. This role is responsible for owning the product vision, ensuring delivery of high-quality solutions, and maintaining a clear roadmap (9 months to a year out) that supports business priorities.
The product owner will maintain a clear short term product roadmap (0-12 months), ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions together with the development team. Aligning delivery with business priorities and the product vision. Working closely with front & back-end developers, stakeholders, and leadership to translate business needs into actionable user stories while ensuring successful delivery through Agile practices.
The assignment
Product Ownership
- Own 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.
- Communication skills: must be able to articulate product vision, goals, requirements, KPI’s to stakeholders and developments teams
- Analytical: ability to assess market trends, user feedback, product performance- to help prioritizing backlog, making data driven decisions and solving complex problems
- Leadership & Collaboration: lead a team towards achieving the product vision, foster collaboration
- Customer Focus: Understand customer (both internal & external) needs and preferences and translate these insights into actionable features
- Strategic thinking: ability to align product development with longer term business objectives, includes 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
What we offer
We offer you an exciting temporary assignment in which you will be part of a community that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will define the society of tomorrow.
- Duration of the assignment, 1 year, with extension if applicable
- Desired start date: 04/05/2026
- Work regime: full time
Location
We provide the flexibility to work both from our office premises and remotely from home. This to maintain a healthy work-life balance while being an integral part of our team. An onsite presence of 3 days a week is required. It's not possible to work 100% remote.