Product Owner

Project overview

Assignment Description

As a Product Owner, you will work with your team to create maximum value with your product. You will undertake, experiment, analyze, inspire, and make crucial decisions. This way, you will make an indispensable contribution to the digitalization of the Justice system.

You will investigate what users and stakeholders want, why they want it, and what the benefits could be. For example, a shorter lead time, higher user satisfaction, or cost reduction. Then you will look at whether and how this fits within the plan and create a roadmap. In it, you will describe the direction we are heading with the product/service, how we will approach it, and how we will measure the effect of the changes. You will act as an entrepreneur.

And you will have the courage to break through existing processes or ways of thinking, or to say no when you are convinced that a certain idea or need does not lead to an improvement, or is too expensive.

You will be deployed at one of the bases (departments) on one or more teams. For example, within the Public Services base. Public Services realizes and delivers services for external stakeholders of the Justice system, such as citizens, lawyers, and other professionals. One of the teams here works on the flagship of the Justice system, namely www.Rechtspraak.nl. You will also participate in the Product Owners professional group.

Background of the assignment

At IVO Rechtspraak, we are working on the digitalization of the Justice system. We actively collaborate with courts, citizens, and chain partners. Within IVO Rechtspraak, you will work in the Customer & Chain Information Management & Transformation department. To realize the ambitions, you will work closely with stakeholders such as information managers, IT managers, your team, users, and portfolio holders. You will be their point of contact for the legal and administrative process. At the same time, you will coordinate with other product owners, as their products/services may have interfaces with yours.

Requirements

You think and work as an entrepreneur with a clear vision. Based on your vision, you will determine the roadmap and the steps needed to achieve the goals. You are critical of wishes and requests from stakeholders and want to validate hypotheses before proceeding with actual development. You think out of the box and dare to challenge the status quo. You are results-oriented. You are more focused on the measurable outcome than the activities and deliverables. You understand the means to an end. Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 & 2 (PSPO 1 & PSPO 2).

You have knowledge of and relevant experience as a Product Owner in complex environments with many dependencies and parties (preferably within a government or similar organization); Worked full-time as a Product Owner (5 years). You work solution- and result-oriented, have excellent organizational skills, and are not easily discouraged by setbacks. You are able to translate unclear and complex stakeholder needs into concrete epics and user stories. A master of stakeholder management.

You bring stakeholders along with your vision, lead your team in creating value, and make choices about direction based on validation. You make choices and dare to say no.

Wishes

You have experience as a Product Owner in both government or other non-profit organizations and commercial organizations. Experience with OKRs, User Story Mapping, and facilitating workshops. Affinity with CMS/Bloomreach; a new Product Owner does not need to be a developer, but must understand what is (im)possible with the CMS/Bloomreach.

Competencies

You know how the different stances of a Product Owner work, when to use them, and are aware of where you need help. You are stress-resistant, even under pressure. You are eager to learn and continuously developing yourself as a Product Owner. It is an extroverted team, and an extroverted Product Owner is also sought. Delegating ability; the team is currently set up as self-managing, so a new PO must dare to let go and place ownership with the team.

Additional Information

When you offer a professional to us as a supplier 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 levels in the chain; from supplier to client. We cover these risks for our clients through a blocked account, the G-rekening. 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 Authorities.

The percentage to be deposited depends on whether you have SNA certification (NEN-4400-1 or NEN-4400-2) and whether your company is located in the Netherlands or abroad. You can apply for the G-rekening from the Tax Authorities. If you cannot obtain a G-rekening (and you can provide proof of this from the Tax Authorities), you also have the option to provide an accountant's statement (assurance report regarding personnel lending) quarterly. In this, a certified accountant (AA or RA) will issue a statement on the correctness, completeness, and timeliness of the remittances.

Please note, the costs for this statement are at your own expense.

Project details

• Start: 2026-10-29T23:00:00
• Location: Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch