Product Owner API & SDK Platform

Octave; Gent; Hybride; EUR 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle—Design, Build, Operate and Protect—where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

We are looking for a dedicated Product Owner to lead the API/SDK R&D backlog with six engineers, define a commercially-driven roadmap, and translate partner requirements into API priorities that unlock major commercial opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product ownership or product management experience in software platforms or API-facing products.
• Experience owning a technical R&D backlog with detailed specs and prioritisation decisions.
• Experience working with external developers or partners as primary customers.
• Strong commercial instincts linking API choices to revenue outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management across technical and business audiences.

Responsabilités

• Own the API/SDK R&D backlog end-to-end: prioritisation, planning, stakeholder alignment, and delivery accountability.
• Define and maintain a commercially-driven API roadmap expanding the developer surface.
• Translate partner requirements into API priorities to unlock commercial opportunities.
• Ensure new API capabilities are developer-ready at release with documentation and self-service access.
• Define and track metrics: API adoption, partner activations, time-to-first-integration, seat attachment rates.

Connaissances

Product ownership

API/product management

Stakeholder management

Technical backlog ownership

English fluency

Description du poste

Bricsys is building the most open and extensible CAD platform in the industry. Platform Technology is the team that makes that possible, through a growing API and SDK surface that lets developers, ISVs, and enterprise partners build applications directly on BricsCAD. We are hiring a dedicated Product Owner to lead the API/SDK R&D team of six engineers, giving this domain the focused product ownership it needs to accelerate.

Job Location (Short): Ghent, Belgium
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Responsibilities

• Own the API/SDK R&D backlog end-to-end: prioritisation, planning, stakeholder alignment, and delivery accountability
• Define and maintain a commercially-driven API roadmap that expands BricsCAD's developer surface, based on inputs from partner engagements, ecosystem signals, and competitive intelligence
• Work closely with the team to translate active partner requirements into API priorities, ensuring what gets built unlocks real commercial opportunities
• Ensure new API capabilities are developer-ready at release: documented, promoted, and available to the BricsCAD Developer community via self-service methods
• Define and track the right metrics with the team: API adoption, new developer partner activations, time-to-first-integration, and downstream seat attachment rates
  

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of product ownership or product management experience in a software platform, developer tools, or API-facing product
• A demonstrated ability to own a technical R&D backlog: you are comfortable writing detailed specifications, challenging engineering estimates, and making hard prioritisation calls
• Experience working with external developers or partners as the primary customer - you understand what makes an API easy to build on, and what makes it a barrier to adoption
• Strong commercial instincts - you intrinsically connect API capability decisions to revenue outcomes, not just technical considerations
• Excellent stakeholder management across both technical and commercial audiences; you can present your roadmap to Developers or to a Corporate Leader, each at the right level, while maintaining a consistent message.
• Familiarity with the CAD, AEC, or engineering software industry is a plus but not required - intellectual curiosity about the domain and the willingness to go deep matters most
• Fluent English is a necessity; Dutch or other European languages are a bonus

This role reports to the Platform Technology Product Lead and is a key part of a small, high-impact team that operates at the intersection of product strategy, R&D delivery, and commercial growth. If you want to own something that matters and see the direct impact of your work in how the world's engineers design, this is the role for you.

About Octave

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all. Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.