Senior Product Owner

Product Owner Digital Asset Management wanted for an international organization. In this role, you will define and drive the vision, governance, and roadmap for a global DAM platform, ensuring adoption, consistency, and standardization across the organization. As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for design, implementation, and continuous development of a global Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform. You will collaborate closely with Marketing, IT, vendors, and content owners to establish an unified approach to asset, content and brand management.

Starting largely from the ground up, you will define and develop the operating model, governance framework, and strategic roadmap for the platform. You will also establish clear standards for metadata, taxonomy, compliance, and content ownership. Through your collaborative and results-driven approach, you will build stakeholder engagement, drive user adoption, and deliver measurable business value within an international environment. You will work within an international organisation operating across multiple regions.

You will collaborate closely with Marketing, Commercial Excellence, IT, external vendors, agencies and business stakeholders. English is the working language. You will have to work for and with co-workers around the globe, although on-site presence is required on a regular base because the senior stakeholders are working from the Amersfoort office.

Your responsibilities include: conducting an AS IS analysis of processes and governance of digital-, brand-, and content assets and creation systems; envisioning and developing a TO BE operating model for a centralised global DAM platform; developing and communicating the vision and roadmap for the global DAM platform; translating global and regional needs into priorities, requirements and a manageable backlog; establishing metadata, taxonomy, classification, access and compliance standards; setting up clear governance including decision-making forums and escalation routes; and driving adoption through training, community building and a key-user network.

You bring: proven experience as Product Owner of a DAM platform or a comparable global content or asset management platform; at least 5 years of senior-level experience with DAM, metadata, taxonomy, permissions and asset lifecycle management; experience working in complex international organisations with multiple brands, regions or countries; experience with vendor management, roadmap prioritisation, governance and integrations; extensive experience with interconnected CMS, DAM, DMS, PaaS and SaaS platforms and multifunctional suites; preferably experience with regulated content, usage rights and international compliance requirements; excellent English communication skills; you are structured, decisive and skilled at prioritisation; you are influential and diplomatic in an international stakeholder environment; you can translate ambiguity into practical standards, governance frameworks and roadmaps.

What we offer: assignment duration of 3-6 months to start up the process and make a first analysis and project plan; 24 hours per week; an hourly rate around EUR 110,00 – EUR 125,00 per hour; hybrid working, worklocation is in Amersfoort; start date to be determined, beginning of November; contract type is interim assignment, ideally for self-employed professionals (ZZP).

How to proceed: please send your most recent CV and a short motivation outlining why you are the right candidate for this role as soon as possible, please before October 5th. For interim assignments, timing matters. Suitable candidates will be selected and presented as applications are received. If SchaalX does not know you yet, an interview with SchaalX will be part of the process.