At Rabobank, we want to make it as easy as possible for our engineers and product teams to build safe, reliable services. As Product Owner Adherence, you will bring people together, set a clear direction, and help turn complex requirements into practical solutions that create value across the bank.
Area Adherence supports the mandatory compliance, risk, and security processes that help keep the bank safe and secure. Our ambition is to make adherence a seamless part of the engineering and product journey - improving efficiency, transparency, and user experience while maintaining effective control.
As a Product Owner within Area Adherence, you will shape products and services that make adherence clear, accessible, and scalable. Your exact portfolio may evolve with the area’s priorities and can include data, insights, workflow automation, onboarding, and other capabilities that support engineers, product teams, and adherence topic owners.
You & your role
As Product Owner, you will take ownership of a product or service domain within Area Adherence. You will develop the vision and roadmap with your team and stakeholders, make transparent priority decisions, and focus on outcomes, adoption, and sustainable value - not delivery alone. You do not need to have every answer from day one; curiosity, sound judgement, and a willingness to learn are essential.
You will:
- Shape a clear product vision and roadmap aligned with area strategy and user needs
- Listen to users and stakeholders, identify the most valuable problems to solve, and turn insights into priorities
- Balance ease of use, scalability, risk, and compliance when making product decisions
- Create alignment across teams and encourage standard solutions while recognising meaningful differences between domains
You will contribute to the leadership of the area and work closely with your development team, Tech Lead, Scrum Master, fellow Product Owners, architects, and other partners. We value thoughtful collaboration, open dialogue, and shared ownership.
Facts & figures
- 35 or 40 hours per week
- Within Area Adherence, more than 80 engineers work together on products and services used by thousands of Rabobank colleagues.
- 9.5 million customers worldwide
Top responsibilities
Product Ownership
- Define and evolve the vision, roadmap, and success measures for your product or service domain
- Guide discovery and delivery with your team, using feedback and evidence to make decisions
- Support reliable, secure, compliant, and user-friendly solutions that can grow with the organisation
- Connect teams, topic owners, users, and decision-makers around shared outcomes
Value & Adoption
- Focus on outcome‑based success, such as adoption, usage, and value realized
- Define and track KPIs related to usage, data quality, onboarding efficiency, and reliability
- Continuously improve developer and topic‑owner experience through feedback and metrics
Stakeholder Management
- Influence and align senior and operational stakeholders across organisational boundaries to achieve shared objectives and strategic outcomes.
- Proactively manage competing priorities, dependencies, and risks, driving consensus in complex, multi-team environments.
- Establish trusted relationships at all levels of the organisation, enabling effective decision-making, collaboration, and delivery execution.
Ways of Working
- Work closely with your Scrum Master and development team to maximize impact
- Collaborate with architects to make sound design and scaling decisions
- Create clarity in a complex landscape by simplifying processes and interfaces
How You Make a Difference
- Bring people with different perspectives together around a shared direction
- Represent the needs of users and customers in product decisions
- Build trusted relationships and create progress through clarity, empathy, and constructive challenge
Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Adherence.
You will join a diverse, collaborative area of Product Owners, Tech Leads, Solution Architects, Scrum Masters, and more than 80 engineers. Together, we support thousands of colleagues across Rabobank and create an environment where different perspectives are valued.
- Across Area Adherence, our teams work on:
- Creating intuitive products and services that help colleagues meet adherence requirements
- Providing reliable data, insights, automation, and guidance for adherence processes
- Improving the experience of engineers, product teams, and adherence topic owners
- Making solutions scalable, trustworthy, and ready for use across the bank
- Embedding AI in our way of working and also serve AI as users of our services
Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time
For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.
Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank
At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about
You & your talent
You do not need to meet every point to apply. We are interested in your potential as well as your experience. You are likely to bring:
- Experience supporting change management, process improvement, or organisational transformation initiatives, helping teams adopt new ways of working and embed sustainable improvements.
- A user-centred approach and an interest in adoption, impact, and continuous improvement
- The ability to create clarity, make considered trade-offs, and communicate decisions openly
- A collaborative style and confidence working with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
- Familiarity with agile ways of working and an openness to learning new technical and regulatory domains
You & the application process
You can apply for the Product Owner Adherence vacancy at Rabobank, until fulfilment.
- Applications via e-mail or LinkedIn message won’t be taken in consideration, please apply on our website
- Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter, ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
- To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands
- We will hold the interviews through a video call. If you are selected for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will reach out to you via SMS and email to schedule the interview.
- You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
- A reliability assessment is part of the procedure.
- We respect your privacy.
Please add a motivational letter to your application, in this please answer the following questions:
1. Can you give an example of a product or service for which you defined the vision and roadmap? 2. How do you manage different stakeholder interests and competing priorities? 3. Can you give an example of how you used user feedback or data to improve a product or process?
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