# Product Owner

**Company:** [Storyteq](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/gvLQdyNd9Tn4zdppW8Eviq.md)
**Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Department:** R&D

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## Description

**Position Overview**

The Product Owner is a key product role within Storyteq’s R&D team, responsible for driving product value and contributing to the competitive advantage of our platform in a fast-moving market. Working closely with engineering teams, customers, and internal stakeholders, the Product Owner ensures the delivery of high-quality product outcomes that meet user needs and business objectives.

As part of a collaborative and ambitious product organisation, the Product Owner supports roadmap processes, generates product insights, analyses competitors, and contributes to business case development – all while maintaining a clear focus on impact and measurable outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

**1\. Product Strategy and Value Delivery**

-   **Initiative Development**: Develop initiatives to improve product value, with a clear understanding of the problem (backed by data and metrics) and desired outcomes, defining measurable goals.
-   **Roadmap Contribution**: Support the Product Director in maintaining a timely and high-quality roadmap process, ensuring initiatives are well-defined and prioritised.
-   **Outcome-Driven Mindset:** Translate product goals into measurable OKRs and success metrics, ensuring teams operate with clarity and focus on customer impact.
-   **Market Awareness:** Research, assess, and report on competitor capabilities to inform prioritisation and identify strategic opportunities.

**2\. Product Management and Delivery Excellence**

-   Engineering Partnership: Work closely with engineering teams to deliver high-quality products on time, maintaining alignment on scope, timelines, and dependencies. Act as the the go-to person for clarifying requirements and making decisions during development. 
-   Decisionmaking: Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and make fast, clear decisions to keep development moving.
-   Delivery clarity: Writing clear user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and prioritising what gets built and when. Translating business goals and customer needs into actionable work for engineering teams.
-   Quality Assurance: Ensure quality throughout the development and release process, covering scope definition, designs, stakeholder management, and release planning.
-   Cross-Team Cohesion: Ensure consistency and alignment between product teams throughout development, managing cross-team requirements from a client perspective.
-   Adoption & Usage Insights: Report on the use and adoption of different product areas, providing actionable insights to guide future investment decisions.
-   Data-Led Decision Making: Embed product metrics and usage analytics into all product decisions, ensuring clear accountability and evidence-based prioritisation.

**3\. Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration**

-   Product Advocacy: Champion the product vision, strategy, and innovation, communicating it clearly and compellingly to relevant stakeholders across the organisation. Communicating the product vision to the team, ensuring everyone understands _why_ they're building what they're building.
-   Customer Centricity: Maintain a strong understanding of user needs and customer feedback, ensuring product decisions are grounded in real-world use cases.
-   Internal Collaboration: Work closely with teams across R&D, GTM, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure alignment and shared understanding of product direction.
-   Clear Communication: Lead meetings with clarity and purpose, ensuring communication is action-focused and drives progress.

**4\. Research and Continuous Improvement**

-   Competitive Research: Continuously assess and monitor the competitive landscape, identifying gaps and opportunities to strengthen Storyteq’s market position.
-   Product Analytics: Analyse and report on product usage and adoption patterns to support informed decision-making and roadmap prioritisation.
-   Innovation Mindset: Proactively identify opportunities for product improvement, bringing forward ideas that drive value for customers and the business.
-   Documentation & Knowledge: Contribute to product documentation and knowledge assets to ensure clarity, accessibility, and enablement for internal and external stakeholders.

## Requirements

**Experience and Background**

-   3–4 years of work experience in a Product Management or Product Owner role.

-   Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
-   Proven experience working in or alongside engineering teams to deliver high-quality products.
-   Experience in Martech, such as Creative Automation, DAM, or similar platforms, is highly advantageous.
-   Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-moving, highly competitive market environment.
-   Experience with roadmap processes, product analytics, and stakeholder management.

**Technical Background**

-   Strong product thinking with the ability to identify problems, frame solutions, and measure outcomes.
-   Confident and assertive communicator – able to lead meetings, align stakeholders, and drive action.
-   Structured, analytical, and highly organised – a strong planner and effective multitasker.
-   Commercially aware and data-driven in approach to decision-making.
-   Fluent in written and spoken English

**Personal Attributes**

-   Enthusiastic and positive with a problem-solving “Can do!” mindset.
-   Ownership-oriented with a high sense of responsibility – both internally and towards users.
-   Team player: people-smart, eager to learn, and humble.
-   Efficient, consistent, and focused on delivering meaningful impact.
-   Ready to step into a scale-up environment and thrive on change.

## Benefits

📈 Employee stock ownership.

📅 27 days of annual leave (Well-being Day and Volunteer Day included).

🏡 Hybrid working model (2-3 days from the office).

🚆 Travel allowance.

🚲 A bicycle lease plan with Hellorider after 1 year of employment.

💻 Excellent tools: High-end Laptop, Monitor, and everything in between!

📚 We support your continuous improvement with training, courses, conferences, and books.

🌦 Mental health and wellbeing support: Access to OpenUp.

🥪 Office lunches and endless snacks at the Amsterdam Office.

🍻 The best Friday afternoon drinks.

👵 A Pension contribution for employees who are based in the Netherlands.

🐶 Pet-friendly office, so feel free to bring your furry friend!

**We Value Diversity**   
We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. 

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation but the wider industry too. 

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet because we’re always stronger together. 

ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together. 

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