Product Owner Features

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,931 and EUR 7,043 (scale 09) for a 36-hour work week.
• 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 several features of Nexa. Currently the features of your squad include features such as the squad administration and application insights. As a Product Owner you think in terms of value and outcomes, and you set clear priorities that help the team focus. You ensure the squad administration and application insights evolve as a high-quality product: modular, documented, governed, and aligned with platform standards.

• Develop and maintain clear dashboards and overviews that show the health and performance of the systems and the engineer who is responsible. 
• Create transparency in the structure of our large software development organization by mapping responsibilities, ownership, and contact points across teams.
• Identify and define which data needs to be captured to streamline IT operations and improve collaboration. This includes establishing connections between the S@S organization and ITSM applications, and ensuring roles such as risk champions and triangle members are correctly represented.

• 36 – 40 per week
• The potential of Nexa effects more than 8000 engineers across whole Rabobank.

• Vision & direction – Keep the product vision up to date and aligned with the Area vision and connect your roadmap to the strategy .
• 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
• Quality –Protect 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 documentation 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.
• Focused on user value, measurable outcomes, and continuous discovery.
• Proven ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term delivery needs.
• Skilled in translating business needs into clear engineering requirements.
• Solid understanding of UX, accessibility, and front-end technologies.
• Experience turning complex internal data into actionable insights for developer platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Experience launching or scaling features within internal developer portals.

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. Can you describe a recent example where you had to prioritize a complex backlog and how you decided what delivered the most value?

2. How have you ensured scalability, consistency, or documentation quality in a technical platform you owned?

3. Can you share a situation where you used usage data or insights to drive a product improvement?

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
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A reliability check is part of the procedure.
• We respect your privacy.

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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