Key Skills
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to lead a multidisciplinary Agile/DevOps squad. The Product Owner translates business, customer and technology priorities into a clear and actionable backlog and ensures that the squad focuses on the work that creates the highest value.
Key responsibilities
- Own, refine and prioritize the squad backlog
- Translate business and technology priorities into epics, features and user stories
- Define product, quarterly and sprint goals
- Develop roadmaps and milestone plans
- Balance business change with operational stability, technical debt, security and compliance
- Align stakeholders and manage cross-squad dependencies
- Participate actively in Agile ceremonies and steer effective squad delivery
- Monitor KPIs, risks, dependencies, capacity and delivery progress
- Make timely prioritization decisions and remove or escalate impediments
- Represent customer and business interests within the squad
Required skills
- Master's degree in finance, economics, technology, engineering or a related field
- Proven Product Owner experience in an Agile/DevOps environment
- Strong backlog management and prioritization skills
- Strong stakeholder and dependency management
- Excellent analytical, communication and decision-making skills
- Ability to translate strategic priorities into executable work
- Results-oriented and customer-focused mindset
- Comfortable working with multidisciplinary and distributed technology teams
- Experience within complex enterprise IT environments
- Resident in the Netherlands
- Excellent communication skills in English. Proficiency in Dutch is a big plus.
Preferred
- Financial Services / Banking experience
- Experience in regulated environments
- Experience with e.g. CRM, data, cloud or enterprise platforms
- Understanding of software engineering, integrations and IT service management
What we offer
- Work-Life Flexibility: 4x9 Workweek Option, Hybrid Working, FlexDay
- Financial Well-being: Competitive Base Salary, MyBenefits Budget, Annual Bonus, Net Allowance, Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Health & Wellness: Collective Health Insurance Scheme, Mental Health Support, Well-being Hub
- Time Off & Leave: 26 Vacation Days, Special Leave Types, Culture Days
- Mobility & Commuting: NS Business Card, Mobility Budget
- Career Development: Performance Achievement Program, Learning & Development Platform, Guidance from People Leads
- Inclusion, Diversity & Social Impact: Do Good Volunteer Program, I&D Networks, Refugee Talent Track
- Culture & Community: Accentrics & Friday Drinks, Annual Accenture NL Party, Flat Organizational Hierarchy
Apply now
Apply online and remember to attach your CV and cover letter. We look forward to receiving your application.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Core Responsibilities
The Product Owner leads a multidisciplinary squad by translating business and technology priorities into a clear, actionable backlog. They are responsible for defining product goals, managing roadmaps, and ensuring the team delivers high-value work while balancing operational stability.
Requirements
Candidates must have a Master's degree in a relevant field and proven experience as a Product Owner in an Agile/DevOps environment. Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills are essential for success in this complex enterprise IT role.
Benefits
- 4x9 Workweek option
- Hybrid working
- Competitive base salary
- MyBenefits budget
- Annual bonus
- Net allowance
- Employee share purchase plan
- Collective health insurance scheme
- Mental health support
- Well-being hub
- 26 vacation days
- NS business card
- Mobility budget
- Performance achievement program
- Learning & development platform
- Do good volunteer program
About Accenture
Industry: Business Consulting and Services
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone else's copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.