Digital Product Manager

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About Us:
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably.  Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

ROLE PURPOSE

As a Digital Product Owner, you have a key role in the development and delivery of digital products, bridging the gap between business objectives and technical execution. You are responsible for defining the product vision, creating and managing the product backlog, and ensuring that the development team delivers high-value features that meet user needs and business goals.

By collaborating closely with stakeholders, including product managers, marketing teams, and customer success teams, you ensure that the product remains competitive and innovative. You will also play a crucial role in user acceptance testing, change management, and continuous improvement, making sure that the product evolves in alignment with market trends and customer feedback.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Development

• Collaborate with the Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager to ensure product competitiveness and innovation.
• Define and prioritize the Release N+1 and N+2 backlog scope:
  • Coordinate the initial assessment of delivery capacity and business value to provide preliminary backlog prioritizations.
• Lead the preparation of functional and technical specifications in accordance with RACI governance.
• Prepare & facilitate the Product Increment quarterly meeting at the start of each release development phase.
• As a PACE Product PO, ensure an integrated team approach with transversal Product Owners (Predict & Data). 

Customer Success

• Establish Customer Success Management (CSM) criteria ahead of each release.
• Deliver product release demos to sponsors, users, and clients.
• Prepare user training materials and conduct user training sessions.
• Lead the ADKAR Change Management process for each release, supported by the Change Manager.
• Collaborate closely with the Service team and Customer Success Management (CSM) team to gather and prioritize user feedback for the product backlog.
• Work with the CSM and Business Modeling team to define KPIs and value creation targets.

 Delivery Streams

• Define the scope of Release Framing activities.
• Validate the framed scopes (including UX/UI) executed by the PPO and supporting team.
• Serve as the primary interface with domain SMEs and coordinate SME involvement.
• Validate DevOps user stories written by the PPO in DevOps.
• Contribute to sprint planning and backlog refinement, ensuring business value is appropriately considered.
• Engage in ad hoc testing of new features as requested by the PPO.
• Lead user acceptance testing (UAT): define the testing team, oversee testing execution, and be responsible for sign-off on release deployment in the production environment.

Reporting

• Review product updates from the Product Delivery Manager.
• Report to the Product Manager.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Master of Science degree

• Minimum 15 years of experience and possibly 5 years in product management, preferably in the oil & gas industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and stakeholder management.
• Technical Skills: product lifecycle management, data analysis, project management, competitive analysis, digital technology trends, proficiency in product management tools (e.g., Jira).
• Fluent in English.

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.  All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.