Snappet is looking for a Product Owner. Will you join our team?

Help improve the learning results of children: that’s what we aim for at Snappet. We develop smart software that enables teachers and children to get the best results. On a daily basis our software is used in over 3500 schools across Europe and USA and used by more than 300.000 students. We strive to deliver continuous improvement of our products to support all these schools and students. Only the best people can help us with that.

As a Product Owner at Snappet you and your team deliver valuable products and features that help improve learning results.

You have experience and take pleasure in the development of complex technical products that do not always have a UI. You understand the wishes of the users and of the market. Also, you are the link between stakeholders and the Snappet scrum team. You can explain to the team exactly which user stories should be developed in the next sprints.

In your role as Product Owner, you work with your team and stakeholders to deliver valuable features, optimizing plans so that functionality and MVPs can be brought to classrooms as early as possible, and taking real ownership of the functionality of your team's product and continuously improving on that where possible. You collaborate with stakeholders on your roadmap, discussing how the needs fit within the current backlog and deciding on the best prioritization for your upcoming sprints. Together with your development team, you’ll write feasible user stories and draw up clear acceptance criteria. During development you work on daily basis with your team and if needed your stakeholders to ensure the perfect fit. You investigate whether the first results of use are in line with expectations and change accordingly. You carefully plan rollout to our real users and of finally take part in celebrating an important innovation successfully delivered!

Other responsibilities as Product Owner

• You connect with the team, the stakeholders and with the organization.
• You are the owner of the product backlog and it’s clear for everyone what the team is working on.
• You manage timeline expectations and key milestones so that we satisfy our user's needs and expectations together with stakeholders.
• You understand how the product works and you investigate the customer’s experience of the product.
• You work closely with the scrum master and the development team, you are available for answering questions and giving feedback on the work being done.
• You identify the underlying need – the question behind the question – of feature requests and convert it into a user story with clear acceptance criteria.
• You take care of the release and proper functioning of the product for the customers.
  
• You see the importance of improvements to the technical architecture and you can weigh that against functional improvements and explain it to stakeholders.

We ask:

• Experience as Product Owner and you like to be the link between stakeholders and the development team.
• You are able to communicate with different stakeholders.
• Strong planning and roadmap management skills.
• Experience with product development in an agile environment, where scrum is the used framework.
• Speaks and writes English fluently.
• You live in The Netherlands (or planning to move), which makes it easy to be in the Utrecht-based office.

What we offer:

• An employment contract with part-time options (32 hours or more).
• Training budget to develop your skills and knowledge.
• Plenty of room for own input.
• Working in an international environment with colleagues from the Netherlands, Brazil, Russia and Spain, among others.
• Flexible working hours.
• Monthly pizza sessions to share knowledge or personal stories.
• A workspace in our office right next to Utrecht central station.
• Regular company-wide online events to stay connected with your colleagues.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, please email to: HR@snappet.org

We are looking for new colleagues to join our team at Snappet, this job opening is not an invitation for acquisition.