Data Product Owner

Data Product Owner

Full Time | Belgium or Portugal

We’re seeking talented, passionate and pragmatic profiles that are obsessed with working with data and getting value out of it.

About Daltix

Daltix provides highly accurate and accessible data to companies active in the dynamic retail industry. We are obsessed about the quality of our data and we thrive on making it work for our customers so that they can make fact-based business decisions. We are proud to have a solid customer base of some of the largest European retailers such as Colruyt Group, Intergamma and Unilever. In the next couple of years, Daltix is focused on further fast growth which means our talent will have a significant impact on creation, development and execution of our product and brand. Daltix was founded in 2016 and has teams located in Belgium and Portugal.

About the job

As part of Daltix’s growth ambitions, we are looking for an experienced Data Product Ownerto join our team. Data is at the heart of Daltix’s business model and you’ll have the opportunity to help shape our growth.

This new role will have a direct impact on the product we provide to our customers - quality data that works. You will be integral to co-creating a product ready for European growth and will translate product strategy into actionable tasks for our cross-functional product squads. Knowing the layers of our tech stack, ranging from data engineering and data science to full stack and web development is important. Equally important to this role is a transparent leadership and communication style and a passion for curation of data.

Your Responsibilities

Your main responsibility will be to help implement the product vision and translate this to the product roadmap, which you’ll own. This means you’ll start from the high level business requirements and prioritized features.

• Defining:Since our product is data, you’ll take ownership in all data field definitions and data structures and are responsible for the process of defining them by speaking to different stakeholders. Next to the data, you’ll also help define how our customers interact with the data (via API, UI, …).
• Translating:You will be responsible for deciding on priorities and translating business requirements to the different engineering squads. In this you are able to set clear acceptance criteria.
• Validating and releasing:You are the end-owner of the releases, in which you are responsible for final validation: have the business rules been implemented & interpreted correctly by the teams?
• Explaining:You’ll be the SPOC for the roadmap for a wide spectrum of audiences including the management, the commercial teams and even our customers.

Requirements

• You are obsessed with working with data and data quality.
• You enjoy working out the details.
• You’re an excellent communicatorwho’s able to communicate both with brilliant engineers and business focussed stakeholders. You must have a good command of the English language, both written and spoken, since you’ll work with people of different nationalities.
• CV and Covering Letter must be submitted in English language.
• You are based in either Belgium or Portugal and able to travel 25% of your time to one of these locations and customers all over Europe.
• You have at least 5 years of professional experience, of which a minimum of 3 years in a (data) product owner/project manager role with the responsibilities defined above.
• You have a technical background, you’ve had at least 2 years of software/data engineering experience so you know where the challenges lie.
• You have worked in, or show a big interest in the retail environment, allowing you to build up domain knowledge to understand our customers & their needs even better.

Ideally, you will also:

• Have experience with our tech stack (Snowflake, Python, AWS, …)
• Have experience with Jira, bringing in expertise on how to structure our projects.
• Have worked in a startup or scale-up (with > 10 software engineers) before so you know what it’s like to build products from the ground up in an environment with many uncertainties & growth challenges.
• Have experience working with stakeholders in an industry where data is not the main focus and can help showcase the value it brings.

What you can expect from Daltix

• Daltix believes it is powered by its people: You will be joining a team geared up for growth, giving you the unique opportunity to help shape our future as a company. Your day at work will matter. You will join a very special team; nimble, talented, international and highly motivated.
• We believe in flexibilityat work. You will have a lot of autonomy in deciding what tasks are important and where you choose to work to keep you inspired. We trust you know your schedule.
• Transparencyis our superpower. It means our organization is flat and our culture is open and inclusive.
• We inject funinto work. Virtual or in-person random catch-ups and spontaneous after-work fun is as common as informative monthly company-wide meetings and organized team events.
• Developing yourself is an important cornerstone of our company. Together, we will find relevant training to help you stay ahead of your, and our, game.
• A competitive wage with benefits such as health insurance, group insurance and meal allowance.