Manager Product Owners UX
Studyportals, Netherlands
Job Description
We are on the lookout for a Manager Product Owners amp; User Experience/Manager Product Management to lead a team of 8 Product Owners and User Experience Designers to shape and build our range of products.
Studyportals Headquarters is in Strijp-S, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Flexibility to work remotely.
About Studyportals
We change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. Every minute more than 100 students around the world trust our platforms (e.g., mastersportal.com) to find their best matching education for free. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population and reduce dropouts.
With 40 different nationalities among the 160 people working at Studyportals, we are an international bunch of people. Eager to learn and serious about fun. Want to know more?
Why are we searching for you?
At Studyportals, the product team consists of POs and UX-ers because I believe together, they can ensure we are building the right things, and deliver maximum value to our users while keep a close eye on return on investment.
Currently, the team is 8 in size, and report into me - Emiel (CTO). With 22 direct reports, and many, many responsibilities, it is time to find help! I'm looking for a manager to lead this team, coach the Product Owner and UX-ers, develop a product vision together with Management and the team, optimize the Product Owner and UX processes to optimize efficiency and value delivery, and maximize deliver.
What are your three main goals?
- Develop and maintain a product vision. We have great ideas for the coming years, and this needs to be merged into a coherent vision for anyone to understand.
- Optimize the product management processes to maximize efficiency, productivity, and collaboration within and across departments.
- Increase the product performance: Visitor growth 20%. Registration growth 30%, Page view growth 20%, User Satisfaction 10%.
How does your team look like?
You report to me, Emiel - CTO. I'm a super nice no-nonsense guy, very results driven, and I want to make an impact. An impact in the world, an impact in the product, and an impact in people. I'm constantly looking to balance user value, and a positive return on investment. I think it is important to understand that we intend to run a successful business, so we can, in fact, change the world!
Your team is 8 people: 4 Product Owners, 3 User Experience professionals, and 1 very talented UX intern. They all report to you directly. The developers in the scrum teams report to Stefan - Software Development Manager. I want the teams to spend most of their time (approx. 70%) on value delivery, and it is up to you, the product owners and Stefan to make sure this happens.
What are your responsibilities and tasks?
- Keep the product vision up to date, define annual roadmaps for all the teams along with quarterly deliverables. And achieve the goals set.
- Set product performance KPI's and targets and achieve them together with your team.
- Perfect the basics and maximize the already existing product features and functionalities. A/B test the heck out of it!
- Guarantee a healthy balance between student (user) value delivery, and business support.
- Optimize and maximize the Product Management processes, and lead, coach, teach and support the Product Owners, and UX-ers.
Requirements
What are we are looking for?
- At least 5 years of experience in a Product Owner role, 3 years in a leadership role, and a great understanding of the product ownership theories, methods, and practices.
- At least 3 years of experience closely working with User Experience and a good understanding of the common UX methods and practices.
- At least 5 years of working in an agile environment, preferably Scrum.
- Experience with an online business to consumer product, conversion rate optimization, and preferably marketplace experience, or online marketing experience, e.g., e-commerce, supply demand platform, etc.
- I'm looking for an excellent communicator. Someone with a positive and proactive mindset (love it, change it, or leave it). You can inspire and convince people. You are dedicated and you never give up. And you see opportunities before you see all the problems you need to tackle to make the impossible, possible. And most importantly, I'm looking for someone who wants to make a difference!
- Fluent in English, we are a strongly international team with 40+ nationalities in-house!
Benefits
- Competitive salary including a bonus and pension.
- 32 vacation days (including bank holidays) you have the flexibility to take your holidays wheneve