Product Owner - VMware

Product Owner - VMware

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?

Guide the engineering team to deliver reliable VMware products. Our VMware engineering team welcomes a passionate Product Owner to improve our VMware product offering.

You define the vision and roadmap together with Product Management. You drive the team’s backlog and give direction to the engineering team. You build strong relationships with stakeholders in different departments.

The Product Owner is responsible for our VMware public and private cloud environments. You maintain, drive and communicate the team’s backlog. 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 high-level refine longer term items.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with Product Managers to define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities
• 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
• Lead the cycles of the VMware roadmap releases
• Perform capacity planning with the team: analyse when to expand our platforms

Who are you?

You have a strong technical background related to public or private cloud environments, understand the products and easily communicate with the engineering team. You build strong relationships, those that you can rely on. You make sure you stay informed on what is going on and decide what to do next. You like structure and are well organized.

Are you keen to build a bridge between a team of engineers and the business and our customers? Let’s talk!

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)

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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