Product Owner

Job Description

Division: Group Business Solutions (GBS)

Your role

As a Product Owner, you serve as the vital link between business stakeholders and IT, translating strategic goals into actionable product development. You are responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering solutions that meet client needs and align with the business vision.

Your Responsibilities

• Understand client needs and define optimal scope and solutions focused on true demand.
• Create and maintain the product backlog, ensuring clear documentation and prioritization of requirements.
• Align stakeholders on scope evolution and solution direction.
• Support the Scrum team during development and backlog refinement sessions.
• Prepare client documentation and coordinate roll-out activities.
• Plan, monitor, and manage internal project initiation and scope.
• Ensure project outcomes meet expectations for solution quality, timeline, cost, and business value.
• Build strong relationships with business units and user groups.
• Ensure services are identified, developed, and supported to meet business satisfaction.
• Actively contribute to the execution of the Customer Digital Experience strategy.
• Prepare communications and presentations on product enhancements.
  
  

Your profile

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a similar role (Product Owner, Product Manager, or Senior Business Analyst) within banking or financial services, with a focus on client communication and interaction channels.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Strong analytical, methodical, and results-oriented mindset.
• Client-focused with a collaborative team spirit.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Strong planning and organizational abilities; able to work independently.
• Experience in Agile environments is an asset.
• Proven experience managing at least two teams.
• Certified Product Owner with a track record of delivering change.
• Comfortable working with both senior and junior colleagues in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated success in leading medium to large projects across the full lifecycle using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  
  

Your Soft Skills

• Leadership mindset with the ability to drive change across the organization.
• Strategic thinker with a helicopter view.
• Proactive, critical, and driven personality.
• Strong coordination and prioritization skills.
  
  

Your Technical Skills And Methodologies

• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Familiarity with Kanban boards (e.g., Azure DevOps, TFS).
• Knowledge of ServiceNow.
• Project management experience is a plus.
• Experience in People Change Management is a plus.
  
  

About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
  
  

New ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process.

About The Team

The Group Business Solutions (GBS) division ensures the competitiveness of Euroclear by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our technical teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that doesn't compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.