Product Owner Platform

Be part of our growth and become our new Product Owner Platform

Your future ecosystem
Our Product Development department consists of over 120 colleagues, divided into more than 20 teams that go by self-thought-up names like “Mavericks”, “Rangers” and “High Five”. These self-managing teams work in an Agile way and usually consist of back-end developers, front-end developers, and testers. In our app teams, we work on our new Priva solutions for both buildings and horticulture. Next to our app teams, we have three platform teams that build the back-end components that are used by our app teams. The platform group's mission is to be an enabler and impact multiplier for the app teams and their respective customers. The platform teams provide the building blocks that enable the run of Priva applications in a scalable, secure, and reliable way.

Between Rotterdam and The Hague, you find the greenhouse capital of the world: “Het Westland”, where our campus is located in De Lier. In these 100 square kilometers, Priva was founded in the fifties and is still a family business.

Priva started as a hardware company and transformed into an innovative software company that grew to become the global market leader in horticulture and building automation. Today we are a high-tech company that develops hardware, software and digital services in the field of climate control, energy-saving, and optimal reuse of water. We do this for horticulture, indoor and city farming, as well as utility buildings such as offices, retail, hotels, and hospitals.

Our next step is to conquer the digital domain and become a digital service provider, selling subscriptions to "climate as a service".

We are proud to be working with over 600 colleagues, in 16 international branch offices divided over 12 countries together with over 400 international installation partners to deliver our sustainable solutions and services in more than 100 countries.

How you add value

You will be the Product Owner of two platform teams. These teams build the infrastructure that transfers all the data coming from greenhouses and buildings into our cloud and local environments and ensures easy access for internal and external customers. One of the objectives of this role is to assess the needs of both of our markets and prioritize based on the overall company objectives. As our Product Owner for Cloud Platform, you will help deliver essential digital services focused on ensuring historical and real-time data is qualitative, reliable, and accessible. This also includes provisioning services for on-prem edge devices and making sure we have the basics of running a service-based platform in place, like monitoring, observability, scalability.

You will work closely with other Product Owners and stakeholders to identify needs, gather requirements, and translate those into work items. You manage the team’s backlog and provide them with clear goals. You keep track of all the functional trends in the field and consciously decide which trends to follow and which trends to disregard. In making strategic choices, you carefully balance business and technical needs, as well as the priorities of your team(s).

Priva’s customers rely on the data provided by the infrastructure that is built by your teams. By ensuring the performance, scalability, and accessibility of this infrastructure, you directly add value to our end customers.

Who you are

We seek someone with strong stakeholder management, problem-solving skills, and the ability to prioritize based on business impact. As a Platform Product Owner, you structure roadmaps and backlogs to deliver maximum value to internal and external stakeholders. You understand platforms, stay updated on trends, and make strategic choices balancing business, technical, and team needs.

• At least 5 years of experience in the role of Product Owner where you were responsible for a technical product (e.g. API, integrations, data);
• Experience in managing internal senior stakeholders with strong opinions and conflicting priorities;
• Experience estimating the business impact on features;
• Experience managing product backlog tools (Jira, Azure Devops, etc);
• Experience with data analytics, KPIs, and user behavior data to measure their products’ success;
• A good conceptual understanding of platforms, infrastructure, users’ needs and pain point and awareness of industry trends;
• Preferably experience in a role working with high availability cloud data solutions or cloud infrastructural solutions;
• Enjoy collaboration with other Product Owners and stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions that add value to our customers
• Fluent in English, Dutch is a nice to have;
• Currently living in the Netherlands.
  

What you get

In numbers:

• A gross salary based on your experience in the range of € 5.000,- and € 6.900,- based on 40 hours a week;
• We find a healthy work-life balance important: flexible working hours combined with 30 vacation days a year and the option to buy more;
• 8% holiday allowance;
• Travel allowance of € 0,23/km with a daily maximum of 150 kilometers or fully reimbursed public transport costs;

For your own sustainability:

• Be secured with our pension plan;
• Feel engaged and join our participation plan;
• Keep on learning with your personal education possibilities and budget;
• Be happy and fit by using our healthy cafeteria, our free on-premises fitness where you can participate in CrossFit, Pilates and Spinning classes or play table tennis and table football.

Our values
Priva's mission is to create an optimal environment where people can work, grow and develop. We offer worldwide solutions for horticulture and building automation. Our ambition is to be known as the leading technology and service provider for sustainable urban deltas. We are proud that our solutions result in lower consumption of natural resources and contribute to some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our culture is built around our core values; sustainable, innovation, make it happen, and human. In our latest employment survey, our colleagues mainly described our culture as: open, ambitious, innovative, friendly, committed, informal, flexible, and down to earth. We aim to be a dynamic, fast-paced, flat and informal organization, where our colleagues have the space to grow and develop.

We believe that in order to be successful, it is important to include people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures. Every day, we continue to build our open culture with people who are driven to turn our vision into reality, regardless of who they love, where they are from, or what they believe in. We encourage and celebrate people to voice their opinions and be their authentic selves.

Apply
Does this make you smile, and do you see yourself as our new Product Owner Platform? Apply below or contact us for more information. We’ll get back to you within two weeks, we are keen to get to know you!