Product Owner

Project overview

Assignment Description

In general, the activities can be described as follows:

Candidate will primarily work as a Product Owner for the realization of low-code applications that play a central role within large-scale digital projects of the Tax Administration, focused on national recovery programs. Hereby, they form the strategic link between technology, design, and policy to improve public services. Additionally, the Product Owner provides functional leadership to the team, guides employees in their development, and steers towards collaboration, quality, and results.

Background of the Assignment

The Buitengewone Zaken Blauw (BZB) directorate works on complex, politically urgent assignments of a temporary nature, assigned by the management team of the Tax Administration. These assignments require interdepartmental coordination and fall outside the primary processes of the Tax Administration. BZB focuses on, among other things, recovery efforts and innovative working methods, such as artificial intelligence and process automation.

The BZB program implements various programs, such as the wrongly rejected requests concerning Voluntary Debt Restructuring Natural Persons (MSNP), the subsidy scheme Temporary Compensation Block Connection (TTB), the digital supplementary damage route for DGH (Mijn Herstel & ISB), and the Access to Tax File (IFD). The Product Owner can be deployed on various or all projects within BZB.

• Product Ownership and Agile Delivery
• Experience as a product owner in complex environments. Extensive experience in leading Scrum teams, writing and prioritizing user stories, and supporting the delivery of increments. Familiar with sprint rituals and keeping the team aligned with the product vision.
• Roadmapping
• Able to translate ideas into product roadmaps and use prioritization methods to determine what to build next based on value and effort.
• Discovery and Problem Formulation
• Familiar with interviewing users and organizing workshops to understand their needs, helping teams define the right problem to solve.
• QA/UAT and Release Planning
• Organizing and supporting test cycles, including UAT, to ensure products meet user needs. Also assisting in coordinating frequent, structured releases.
• Stakeholder Communication
• Strong communication skills to keep developers, designers, and business stakeholders informed and aligned throughout the project.
• (Team) Workshops and Facilitation
• Able to facilitate retrospectives, planning sessions, and ideation workshops that help teams collaborate, improve, and stay focused.
• Demonstrable experience in setting up and further developing applications with a focus on user experience (UX).
• Demonstrable experience with product development on low-code platforms.
• Leadership and Coaching
• Provides leadership and guidance to team members, ensures knowledge development within the team, and promotes results-oriented collaboration.
• Experience with the Buitengewone Zaken Blauw (BZB) program is a pré.
• Full-time availability.

Requirements

Only Dutch-language CVs to be submitted, and candidates must speak Dutch perfectly.

Competencies

CV and Motivation Guidelines:

Permitted Engagement Form:

The initial engagement period is until December 2026, with an option for extension.

Additional Information

When you, as a supplier, offer a professional to us and they are placed, we will need information from you as a contracting party, including regarding the Chain Liability Act (Wet keten- en inlenersaansprakelijkheid).

The 'WKA' aims to prevent abuse in the remittance of payroll taxes at all links in the chain; from supplier to client. We cover these risks for our clients by means of a blocked account, the G-account. This is an account to which a portion of the invoice amount is deposited and from which you can pay payroll taxes and VAT to the Tax Administration. The percentage to be deposited depends on whether you have an SNA certification (NEN-4400-1 or NEN-4400-2) and whether your company is established in the Netherlands or abroad. You can apply for the G-account from the Tax Administration.

If you cannot obtain a G-account (and you can provide proof of this from the Tax Administration), you also have the option to provide an accountant's statement (assurance report regarding personnel lending) every quarter. In this, a certified accountant (AA or RA) will issue a statement about the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the remittances. Please note that the costs for this statement are at your own expense.

• Experience with planning, coordinating, and managing digital projects, including managing dependencies, capacity, and progress within multidisciplinary teams. Provides leadership and guidance to team members and promotes effective collaboration aimed at achieving common goals.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives, policy, and user needs into coherent product, roadmap, and design choices within large-scale digital programs.
• Experience with quality assurance and delivery of digital products, including test coordination, acceptance processes, and release planning within iterative development trajectories. Steers teams towards quality, results, and continuous improvement and ensures the guidance and development of employees.
• Knowledge of and experience with user-centered design in digital environments, including ensuring consistency, quality, accessibility, and user-friendliness.
• Experience with quality assurance and delivery of digital products, including test coordination, acceptance processes, and release planning within iterative development trajectories.
• WO+ work and thinking level, with experience working within complex digital environments (4 years).
• Experience as a product owner within large-scale, complex organizations (preferably government), with experience in stakeholder management and operating within administrative-political contexts (2 years).
• Experience with low-code environments is required (2 years).
• Political sensitivity;
• Creativity;
• Anticipation;
• Networking;
• Environmental awareness.
• Format: No preference
• Language: Dutch
• Max. number of pages: 5
• Employee in service of supplier: Yes
• ZZP: No

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-21T22:00:00
• Location: Den Haag Zuid-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch