Technical Product Owner
Optimile
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ghent • 🇧🇪 Belgium
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for your software and charging portfolio: from discovery and roadmap definition to go-to-market and phase-out.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, functional analysts, QA testers, and other stakeholders to define clear priorities and ensure high-quality delivery.
- Translate technical and business insights into tangible product value. Balancing market needs with technical feasibility.
- Act as the bridge between technology and business, representing both the Voice of the Customer and the Voice of the Technology in agile ceremonies and product decisions.
- Stay on top of market and technology trends, understanding the evolving landscape of EV protocols, roaming, and charging standards.
- Validate development output throughout the process to ensure alignment with specifications, quality standards, and roadmap goals.
- Leverage data and metrics to assess product performance and guide decisions that enhance value, adoption, and usability.
- Contribute to discovery phases by building business cases and running POCs/MVPs to validate new opportunities.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner with a technical foundation, or as a Functional Analyst / Solution Architect with proven end-to-end delivery experience in SaaS or complex software environments.
- A strong technical mindset, with the ability to understand APIs, integration patterns, and data models.
- A critical problem-solver who can identify dependencies between features and enablers, challenge assumptions, and propose viable solutions.
- A clear and confident communicator who can explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.
- A data-driven decision-maker who leverages both qualitative and quantitative insights.
- A team player with strong stakeholder management skills and a proactive, quality-focused approach.
- Fluency in English (required); proficiency in Dutch is a strong asset.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Product OwnerFunctional AnalystSolution ArchitectSaaSAPIsIntegration patternsData modelsAgileScrumPOCs/MVPs
Soft skills
Problem-solvingCommunicationStakeholder managementTeam playerProactiveQuality-focusedCritical thinkingCollaborationDecision-makingAdaptability