Product Owner Adherence

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

8% holiday allowance

Employee Benefit Budget

Development budget

Hybrid working

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Product Owner Adherence to guide product teams and translate complex regulatory requirements into practical solutions that deliver value across the bank. You will own a domain within Area Adherence, shaping the vision, roadmap, and priorities while balancing usability, scalability, risk, and compliance.

Collaborating with engineers, Tech Leads, Scrum Masters and topic owners, you will drive adoption, measurable outcomes, and a trustworthy, compliant product portfolio.

Job description

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,030 and EUR 7,183 (scale 09)for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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 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

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands.