Job Description

Are you passionate about new technologies and capable of bringing innovative product strategies to live? Would you like to create significant value for our customers by developing new digital solutions together with a team? Do you have a hands-on attitude and experience with managing stakeholders? We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our Online Accounting Product team!

About Wolters Kluwer and the team

Wolters Kluwer is an international supplier of smart software solutions and professional information services in the Healthcare, Tax & Accounting and Legal & Regulatory sector. With our products we support our customers on a daily basis to improve their operations and to solve complex problems. We are looking for a new colleague to join our Basecone product team in the Tax & Accounting Europe Tech division. Basecone is a successful and fast growing SaaS solution to automate manual accounting tasks like data collection and data entry and is one of our key pillars in our European Online Accounting portfolio.

With the power of a corporate organization but the attitude and atmosphere of a scale-up, we at Basecone push boundaries and challenge each other every day. We collaborate across disciplines, trying to achieve that common goal: to develop, launch and maintain state-of-the-art software that effectively addresses real business problems and provides the best customer experience out there. Our mission? We give back time to the accountant!

At Basecone we believe our people are the heart and soul of our company. We value everyone’s input and believe in a commonly agreed commitment. We offer a no-nonsense environment, in which professionalism, fun and open communication are key elements.

Responsibilities

• As an experienced product owner you will be part of our Basecone product team and will lead one or (temporarily) two agile development teams. Your team consist of frontend & backend engineers and dedicated QAs, who are based in Portugal and India, and you will be supported by our UX and Operations chapters. The team currently has a focus on authentication, authorization and onboarding flows but teams increasingly work across multiple domains.
• The Product Owner role is an important role at Wolters Kluwer and you will have accountability and decision making responsibility how products are developed.
• You will be in the driving seat together with the Product Manager, and act as the voice of the customer and other stakeholders towards your team.
• You are responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog of your team so that we effectively built our solutions for our customers while maintaining technical integrity.
• You incorporate customer and stakeholder feedback continuously, ensuring top-notch software quality. You ensure alignment across teams, provide demo’s to our internal stakeholders and customers, support product management with the go-to-market of new functionality and inspire your colleagues with your product development & innovation know-how.

Requirements

Your are a passionate and communicative strong leader with solid experience as a (digital) product owner. You have experience with digitization and automation and love to operate at the intersect of business and IT. You have a creative and positive mindset and love to explore opportunities to make things better and smarter. In addition:

• Self-starter and result-oriented
• You have a Bachelor or Master degree in a relevant area
• A proven track record as product owner with experience in a B2B environment and SaaS product development
• Experience with (SAFe) Agile frameworks & methodologies and Jira
• Excellent in English speaking an writing
• Willingness to travel to Porto occasionally (or other locations if required)
• Experience in accounting software or related fields is considered to be a plus but not a must have requirement

What we offer

We are a product organization that is characterized by an entrepreneurial and informal working atmosphere. As part of Wolters Kluwer, you will be working in a dynamic and international organization where your personal development is encouraged and supported. In addition we offer you:

• A 32- to 40-hour work week with a competitive salary
• 25 days paid vacation leave per year (based on full time employment)
• A good company pension plan, Wolters Kluwer pays 50% towards your pension
• A hybrid workplace with our office in Hoevelaken as a meeting place where you meet your colleagues (on average we work two times a week at the office)
• A reimbursement for your travel expenses. If you travel by public transport, we reimburse those costs in full. Our office is a 3-minute walk from the station and there are plenty of free parking spaces where you can park your car
• A laptop and mobile phone from the company
• Coffee made from freshly roasted fair trade beans and fresh fruit every day, and in addition, a delicious lunch, paid for by us, is available for you and your colleagues

Are you interested in taking the next step and do you believe you are a good fit for the job? We would love to hear from you! Contact our recruiter Razvan Cojocaru at razvan-alin.cojocaru@wolterskluwer.com for more information or click on the apply button to submit your application!

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