
Zertic
2 locations
Product Owner
Product Owner
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
10 August 2025
5 years
(40 h/week)
Function
Product Owner
Language
English
Bachelor’s or
Master’s degree
Why is this vacancy needed?
As our client base is rapidly growing, so are the requests for new features. We require an experienced Product Owner who can take Zertic to the next level of growth. We’re currently the number one in our industry and want to enlarge our lead. If you are familiar with SaaS solutions for the B2B market, you’ll find the opportunity you’re looking for at Zertic. That’s a promise!
Zertic is an international and innovative technology company that specializes in providing solutions to the Test, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) industry. We are committed to delivering cutting-edge solutions to our clients, and we’re looking for a talented Product Owner to join our team.
As a “Product Owner” at Zertic, you will play a crucial role in the further growth of our SaaS applications. You will work with a dynamic team of developers and project managers and are directly involved in the translation of customer requirements into software solutions.
What do we offer?
What are you bringing?
Your responsibilities will include:
- Drafting, developing, supporting, and monitoring product feature releases and release plans in alignment with defined strategic objectives.
- Participate in analysis and planning sessions to translate business needs into clear product requirements.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to articulate, refine, and discuss product backlog items, ensuring shared understanding and alignment on priorities, scope, and feasibility.
- Conduct story mapping and analysis of development requests to support informed prioritization and roadmap planning.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog, collaborating with the development team to ensure clarity, feasibility, and value delivery.
- Continuously inspect, evaluate, and communicate product progress and performance against defined goals and KPIs.
- Present planned initiatives and product updates to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with Zertic’s strategic direction and market leadership in TIC Software.
- Managing development tasks (Agile-CCPM) to optimize team throughput and focus.
- Collaborate and participate in team/customer sessions to clarify support and backlog items, ensuring accurate understanding and effective resolution.
- Prepare and draft structured reports and updates for the board.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Develop and maintain a profound understanding of the Zertic platform, including architecture, configuration, and functionality.
- Demonstrate or acquire in-depth knowledge of customer workflows and business processes to ensure product decisions are aligned with real-world use cases.
- Demonstrate understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to effectively manage and support development processes.
- Maintain working knowledge of common programming languages and frameworks to enable informed decisions with technical teams.
- Possess a foundational understanding of data structures and algorithms to support solution design and technical trade-off discussions.
- Experience with version control (preferably Git) to collaborate with developers and track product evolution.
- Apply basic effort estimation to support planning and resource allocation.
- Understanding of technical debt to support balance of short-term delivery with long-term product health.
- Ask targeted, insightful questions to uncover underlying requirements and clarify complex issues to drive customer value.
- Understanding of different testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, UAT, and their role in delivery quality outcomes.
- Contextualize the product within broader technical and business ecosystems, ensuring alignment with overall goals and strategy.
- You have a command of spoken and written English.
Preferably:
- Knowledge about the Certification/inspection sector, or Auditing skills,
- Project management experience and especially CCPM.
- Agile working.
- User Story Mapping.
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How to Apply:
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A closer look to Zertic
Zertic is a Dutch company providing software solutions to the TIC industry on a global scale. Zertic’s main office is located at Eindhoven Airport with a view of the runway.
To understand better the industry we provide solutions to, ask yourself;
- Do you trust the food you eat?
- Do you trust the products you use?
Building trust in products and services requires certification. A certificate tells you if a product is safe, sustainable, or genuine.
Certificates can be considered the license to operate for many companies and individuals. Those certificates are issued by auditors who are working at or for a certification body.
Zertic empowers all parties involved in the process towards certification with world-class “certification software”. Zertic makes sure companies and individuals can use these certificates to provide trust in the products and services they trade and use. Therefore, our market slogan is “Let’s empower trust”
Do you want to work for a better world where we demand environmentally sustainable goods and services using fair labor, fair trade, organic food, safe environments, and products?
By joining Zertic you can make an impact! Zertic is used by a vastly growing number of companies, and together with you, we make an even bigger impact.
Join us in empowering trust!