Product Owner

About Yields

Yields is an international technology company providing an award-winning Model Risk Management (MRM) Suite for financial institutions to stay in control of their models. The modular and model agnostic solution empowers firms to oversee, test and document their models at scale while ensuring full reproducibility and auditability. Leading global and local firms have successfully deployed the Yields MRM platform to boost the effectiveness and efficiency of their model development and validation activities. Yields is backed by renowned investment firms including investors Volta Ventures, Imec, Pamica NV, and G+D Ventures.

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About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced Product Owner to join our team.  You will be driving the development of one of our product modules.  This product is currently primarily used by financial organizations to manage the risk of using mathematical models.

However, with the EU AI Act just around the corner, we notice a large increase in demand from other types of organizations (e.g. medical device companies, energy companies, insurers, etc) that want to deploy high-risk AI use cases in the European markets. Part of your role will therefore be to ready the platform for these new use cases.

You will work very closely with the customer success team, that is responsible for successful implementation and serves as an interface to our customer base. You will also be working together with the sales team for specific, high-profile opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the roadmap based on the long-term vision of the CTO as well as input from the core product board that consists of representatives from the customer success, sales, product and information security teams.
  • Day to day management of the product team which is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of full-stack .NET developers, a UI/UX expert, a BA, a QA and a DevOps.
  • Understand in detail how our customers use the application
  • Building out -together with the People team- a long term strategy for team composition and upskilling
  • Further refining and monitoring the product quality as well as product complexity
  • Managing the release process of the product as well as all of its artifacts (including Terraform scripts, Helm charts, Docker images, product documentation and default product configuration)

Qualifications

Must

  • 10Y+ experience as a product owner for an enterprise SaaS product that is developed in .NET, runs on k8s, and implements complex business logic
  • Provable experience in leading a multi-disciplinary and (partly) remote product team
  • Experience in managing external APIs
  • Located in Belgium, and ready to be at least 2 days per week in the office (Gent or Antwerp).
  • Fluent in English

Plus

  • Experience working in a scale-up company
  • Understanding of mathematical modelling or model risk management is a strong plus
  • Ambition to become product manager
  • Fluent in other languages (French, Dutch, German, Spanish or Portuguese)

What we offer

●     Lots of autonomy and the opportunity to significantly contribute to a fast-growing tech company

●     Offices in Ghent and Antwerp, just outside of the city center, near a variety of transport options

●     A young and open company culture with a flexible and remote-friendly work environment

●     A competitive salary and additional benefits such as eco cheques, hospitalization insurance, meal vouchers, etc.

●     A yearly training budget to spend as you choose

How to apply: 

If you’re interested, please send your CV and cover letter to people@yields.io. We only accept applications via email. The role will be filled as soon as we find the right candidate.


We look forward to having you join our team!