Product Owner Core Banking

Location: The Hague, Netherlands; hybrid working

Salary: €7,087–€9,449 per month based on a 40-hour working week

Company

hirify.global is a Dutch financial services organization supporting more than 18 million customers and operating hirify.global Bank.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end operation and change delivery of core banking platform products supporting Payments, Savings, and Investment across multiple SaaS suppliers.
• Coordinate 24-hour operational support, incident and problem resolution, maintenance, testing, new functionality rollouts, and regulatory impact analysis.
• Manage SaaS vendor relationships, service levels, performance, contractual compliance, and supplier meetings.
• Define the long-term product vision and strategy, communicate it to teams and stakeholders, and establish measurable development goals.
• Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, shape user stories and acceptance criteria, and plan implementation based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Identify and mitigate technical, data-quality, operational, risk, and regulatory issues while contributing to quarterly Product Increment planning.

Requirements

• Deep experience in the banking domain, particularly payments.
• Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner working with SaaS suppliers.
• Experience shaping the vision and strategy of a digital product.
• Experience owning a core banking product at scale with multiple internal stakeholders.
• General understanding of the lifecycle, operations, and maintenance of core banking products.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with a focus on enabling engineers and business outcomes.
• Customer-focused mindset and ability to understand stakeholder needs.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent or fixed-term employment in an inclusive and collaborative work environment.
• 13th-month payment, holiday allowance, modern pension, and 27 vacation days plus three Diversity Days.
• NS Business Card with unlimited travel, or reimbursement for kilometers travelled by private transport.
• Training and learning opportunities, plus allowances for home-office setup and internet use.
• Work in a Daily Banking organization of approximately 160 experts, with the Core Banking team comprising 10–15 experts.