Introduction to the role

Are you challenged by demanding projects in a multidisciplinary context? Do you enjoy working with a lot of different stakeholders and products and help sectors advance their digital maturity?

Do you have a digital product management background and feel comfortable to talk to business stakeholders and technical teams alike?

  

Then we have an exciting opportunity for you to be the Chief Product Owner of Business Capabilities and Portfolio Management Services!

Role and responsibilities

The Chief Product Owner (CPO) of the BCPMS ART is responsible for the overall vision, roadmap and program backlog of the already running Business Capabilities and Portfolio Management Services Agile Release Train within the ASML IT department. This ART is responsible for digitally enabling the whole of ASML for classical, agile and specialized (ADM – ASML Development Model & BPI- Business Performance Improvement ways of working) portfolio management and capability planning.

The ART currently has 4 teams and owns BizzDesign, Jira IT, Jira Align, Confluence Cloud, Enterprise wiki, Project online and some home-grown tooling like the Demand PowerApp and Portfolio Delivery Plan PowerApp tools. The ART is predominantly in IT, but almost all the POs are from the business like BPI or CS. CPO is part of the leading coalition of the ART, but resides in the Change Management team of BPI. On top of the typical CPO responsibilities, this role is also responsible to help BPI digitize their processes by working directly with BPI teams and BPI competence networks.

In your role as CPO you will be responsible for:

Vision and Roadmap: Define a compelling vision and translate it into a product roadmap that inspires train members. Maintain and align with stakeholders to ensure a healthy balance between market needs, innovation and sustaining the product life cycle.

Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicate with stakeholders on their needs and concerns. Align with stakeholders, including program and line management, on vision, content and prioritization. Maintain a trusted partnership with the train and key stakeholders in the train. Show effective negotiation and influencing skills. Act as an escalation level and coach for the Product Owners within the ART.

Healthy Backlog Management: Keep an economic view on the long term train backlog to meet objectives. Challenge guardrails, while balancing high impact, early feedback and low cost over time. Align the ART Program Increment objectives with POs. Ensure the entire ART understands the context and direction. You feel comfortable in either the business or the technical domain. Determine whether the delivery of ART backlog items is done and accepted. Participate in System Demos and Inspect & Adapt sessions. Come up with scenarios and trade-offs in case of escalations. Manage priorities of escalations during the Program Increment (PI).

Service Management: Review agreements (SLA's) with business for all services. Support IT and BPI in TAP (budget) process with respect to the ART.

Represent ART in the Portfolio Kanban meetings: Work together with Epic owners and propose WSJF values after Analysis phase. In some cases, be the epic owner for ART related epics. Translate the Portfolio Kanban to a PI roadmap and present it to key stakeholders. Attend Portfolio rituals like Portfolio Kanban meeting and pre-PI events.

Drive digitization of BPI sector: Work with BPI competency center leads to digitize competence standards and update tooling accordingly. Work with multiple BPI teams to digitize their way of working and processes, create a central source of truth for data and a more efficient digitally backed way of working

 Deliverables:

High-level prioritized Program Backlog

Aligned ART Objectives for Program Increment (PI)

Vision and Roadmap

TAP (Budget) & Portfolio Management input

Definition of Done for ART backlogs

Communication to all stakeholders of items that are ready to be planned 

Integration of farmout teams into the work stream

Communication and alignment to stakeholders with scenarios when priorities need to be set/taken

Education and Experience

MSc+ level in IT or business or equivalent combination of education and experience

10+ years of experience in digital/IT product management, must have a good technical and/or business understanding and understanding of WoW in IT

5+ years of experience as Product Owner/Product Manager or CPO

Proven operational track record

Proven strong communication skills

Experience with agile way of working (e.g. SAFe) is a plus, preferably acting as a CPO, RTE or PO 

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.

We feel the following skills/ experience are needed to become successful and happy in this role: 

Agile Leadership

Strategic Mindset and being able to work independently

Strong operational skillset – Pragmatic and make things happen attitude

Strong Decision Maker and Negotiation and Influencing skills

Stakeholder Management; Good customer focus and customer facing skills

Motivated by technical challenges and taking and driving ownership

Able to deal with many different deliverables and stakeholders at the same time, prioritizing clearly not only individually but also for the POs when needed
 

Other information

If this job description sounds like you, please let us know! We do, however, appreciate a personal motivation about why you feel you are the right candidate. So, when applying, please upload your resume and personal motivation and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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