Product Owner – Design System

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,876 and EUR 8,395 (scale 10).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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As part of the Engineering Journey, you’ll help shape how 8,000+ engineers design, build, and collaborate every day. We’re building a scalable, consistent, and developer friendly platform, Nexa, and an ecosystem around it. If you enjoy working in a complex engineering landscape, influencing how thousands of developers work, and owning a product that truly matters, this is a great opportunity to make an impact.

Our Area consists of eight squads. We’re looking for a Product Owner to take ownership of the Design System within Nexa. As Product Owner, you shape the vision for how design and UI come together. You think in terms of value and outcomes, not just features, and you set clear priorities that help the team focus. Your product strategy turns fragmented interfaces and styles into a coherent, reusable, and enterprise-ready design system. You accelerate developer experience, increase predictability, and strengthen UX consistency, laying the foundation for the Internal eco-system of the future.

• Accelerate UI consistency & delivery: Design and deliver a modular component framework that enables engineering teams to build interface elements 50–70% faster.
• Drive design & engineering alignment: Collaborate with design, platform teams, and developer communities to create a shared visual and interaction system.
• Optimize through insights: Analyze usage data, design reviews, usability feedback, and adoption metrics to reduce design debt and improve UX consistency.

• 40 per week
• In 2026 we want 100 makers to join the eco-system of Nexa.
• 9.5 million customers worldwide

• Vision & direction – Define and lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the design system, aligned with the needs of engineers, designers, and product teams
• Prioritization – Own and prioritize the backlog of components, patterns, documentation, and tooling to maximize value
• Collaboration – Work closely with UX, front end, platform, and brand teams to ensure alignment and technical feasibility
• Governance & quality – Establish governance that protects consistency, accessibility, and overall quality at scale
• Adoption & impact – Drive adoption by promoting best practices, supporting teams, and solving real product needs
• Measurement & learning – Use feedback, usage data, and team input to continuously improve components and workflows
• Documentation – Ensure the design system is clear, discoverable, and easy to maintain
• Built in standards – Make accessibility, usability, and scalability part of every component and pattern

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Engineering Journey.

 "You really get the space here to drive product innovation that impacts thousands of engineers daily, and you can feel the transformation you're creating," Product Manager.

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about

• 5+ years of product management experience, preferably in enterprise scale environments
• Strong product vision with a clear focus on value, outcomes, and user impact
• Proven ability to set priorities and balance long term strategy with short term delivery
• Experience owning or scaling design systems, component libraries, or UI frameworks
• Ability to translate between design, UX, and engineering needs
• Solid understanding of UX principles, accessibility, and front end technologies
• Strong stakeholder management and cross team collaboration skills
• Experience improving developer experience (DX) and team effectiveness

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers. together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:1. How would you describe your recent experience working with a design system or component library in a large-scale environment, and what impact did you achieve?

2. How do you determine priorities when balancing new components, documentation, tooling, and quality aspects such as accessibility and consistency?

3. How do you bring design, engineering, and platform teams into alignment and drive adoption of a design system, and how do you measure the impact of your approach?

Please submit these answers in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal.

You can apply for the Product Owner Design System vacancy at Rabobank.

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
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To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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