What you will do
You will define and drive the vision for a next-generation mobile platform, ensuring it becomes a scalable, secure, and extensible ecosystem. Acting as the central connector between business, architecture, engineering, and partners, you will translate business strategy into a clear roadmap and ensure platform investments generate long-term value.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Defining and owning the platform product vision and strategy
- Translating business strategy into a clear roadmap
- Identifying and prioritising platform capabilities that support integrations and business use cases
- Owning and continuously refining the product backlog
- Defining and communicating objectives, KPIs, and success criteria
- Ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business goals
- Collaborating with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and security teams
- Facilitating alignment between platform initiatives and business priorities
- Defining platform governance, contribution models, and integration boundaries
- Driving adoption and usage of the platform across internal and external teams
You will also gather and analyse requirements from platform consumers, communicate progress and risks to leadership, support integration guidelines and onboarding processes, and validate delivered features against expected outcomes. You will define and monitor KPIs for adoption, usage, and performance, ensuring MVPs deliver measurable business value.
What we are looking for
Experience and technical knowledge:
- Proven experience as Product Owner, Product Manager, or Platform Product Owner
- Strong experience in Agile environments
- Experience with digital platforms, APIs, or integration ecosystems
- Experience collaborating with architects, engineering teams, and security/DPO stakeholders
- Good knowledge of HTTP protocol
- Good understanding of REST APIs
- Understanding of Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) principles
- Understanding of component-based architecture
- Ability to discuss architectural trade-offs with technical stakeholders
Skills:
- Strategic thinking
- Strong stakeholder management
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Ability to challenge assumptions and drive decision-making
- Strong analytical and prioritisation skills
Certifications:
- Certifications such as PSPO, CSPO, or SAFe are a plus
The setting
This is a freelance assignment for a Belgian public-sector organisation. The role requires fluency in English and at least one of French or Dutch.