Product Owner - Public Cloud Scalability

Product Owner - Public Cloud Scalability Team 

*This role requires relocation to the Netherlands*

Product Engineering at Leaseweb 

Our team of approximately 90 engineers is working in small scrum teams. Each team has end to end responsibility for a specific product or part of our architecture. We work on a remote-first basis, coming together in person at our Amsterdam headquarters twice a year.

Our organizational structure is flat, placing a high value on independence and entrepreneurship. The atmosphere is informal and relaxed, creating a highly motivating work environment in which you will work with some of the most inspiring colleagues in the industry.

What is the role about?

The Product Owner is responsible for taking strategic decisions into actionable work to the product team. You will be part of the Public Cloud Scalability team that provides the infrastructure powering our Public Cloud. The Public Cloud product is a strategic product that forms the basis for our future cloud growth. Creating a vision and strategy with Product Management and executing this with the team is where your focus will be. You make tactical decisions on the next best thing to deliver, backlog priorities and how to best utilize the platforms. You continuously traverse the backlog; deep diving into the next thing to deliver and refine longer term items. You build strong relationships with stakeholders in different departments. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Managers, Network and Infrastructure teams to define your roadmap towards a scalable Public Cloud infrastructure. 
• Refine complex initiatives into Minimum Viable Products and iterate on them 
• Motivate the team with clear direction, articulating what and why 
• Align with different departments, and manage related dependencies 
• Find the right balance between new feature development, customer deliveries, and platform maintenance. 
• Capacity management on the public cloud platform, making sure that the underlying hardware is used as optimally as possible. 
• Advice together with your team how to grow the platforms 

Our ideal candidate has:

• 4-7 years of experience in the cloud industry 
• Experience working as a Product Owner 
• Energetic/go getter attitude, with proven capacity to motivate a team 
• Commercial minded, able to focus on the customers’ and stakeholders’ needs 
• Excellent communication skills (in English) 
• You will maintain a technical focus with applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team, and you are willing to have technical involvement to support the team getting the job done. 

Benefits include:

• Participation in annual company bonus scheme, a company pension, and monthly Internet allowance
• 25 days of paid time off (and the option to buy or sell up to 5 more days)
• Free lunch and parking, the best coffee (if we say so ourselves), and fresh fruit provided daily (when in the office)
• Attractive relocation packages and an agency that takes care of the entire visa process
• Access to the Leaseweb Academy, a personalized learning platform offering a variety of studies, (Dutch) courses, and trainings
• Fun events year-round – from virtual pub quizzes to summer parties, company runs, quarterly hackathons and much more
• Monthly after work drinks
• A multicultural work environment (our colleagues in HQ alone are from over 40 countries!) in a company where you can truly make a difference

Ready for the next step? 

If you’d like to apply, please do so online. To learn more about us, follow us on LinkedIn or Instagram to get an inside look at the life at Leaseweb. For questions, please reach out to Merve Bulazar Talent Acquisition Specialist, at: [email protected] 

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