French speaking Product Owner
What you’ll do:
As a Product Owner, you are responsible for maximising the value delivered by the product to customers and the business. You own the product backlog, define priorities, and ensure that delivery teams are focused on the highest-value outcomes. Acting as a key interface between business stakeholders, customers, and delivery teams, you translate product vision and strategy into clear priorities and actionable requirements across the entire product lifecycle.
Why this role matters
You won’t just contribute to delivery you will own product value. This role is key to ensuring that teams build the right things at the right time, with a strong focus on customer outcomes, business impact, and long-term sustainability.
This is a role for someone who enjoys prioritisation, decision-making, and working at the intersection of strategy and execution.
A strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
Someone who can navigate ambiguity and bring clarity to complex environments. A collaborator who enjoys working across teams and influencing outcomes.
Fluency in French is mandatory, as this role specifically supports the French market.
Hybrid - 3 days in office 2 days at home
What you’ll do
• Own and prioritise the product backlog to maximise customer and business value.
• Work closely with product managers, engineers, architects, designers, and customer-facing teams to translate product strategy into deliverable outcomes.
• Gather, analyse, and refine business and customer needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Use AI-assisted tools to analyse complex problems, explore prioritisation options, assess risks, and accelerate the preparation of product artefacts (user stories, impact analyses, prioritisation scenarios), while remaining fully accountable for product decisions.
• Make trade-off decisions between scope, value, risk, and delivery constraints.
• Ensure strong alignment between product vision, roadmap, and delivery execution.
• Provide clarity and fast decision-making to delivery teams during implementation.
• Continuously assess product performance, delivery outcomes, and customer feedback to drive improvements.
What we’re looking for
• Strong product mindset with the ability to prioritise based on value and impact.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and making informed decisions in complex environments.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and drive alignment across teams.
• Ability to support and guide delivery teams by providing context, clarity, and priorities.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and processes (financial flows, accounting constraints, regulatory context). This is essential for the role; candidates without sufficient accounting knowledge will not be able to perform effectively.
• Fluency in French is mandatory, as this role specifically supports the French market.
At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well-being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:
• Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on health insurance, meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
• Well-being: Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counselling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self-care and parenting resources through the Cleo app.
• Flexible working: flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program.
• Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering, and 5 additional paid days annually for personal or professional development.
• Extended leave: 7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service.
• Financial support: Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate.
Health and Safety Responsibilities
• Fostering the safety culture, by leading with your own example.
• Following established safety procedures and reporting potential hazards promptly helps maintain a secure and efficient workplace.
• Participating in safety training sessions and adhering to preventive guidelines and procedures, the objective is minimizing risks and protecting yourself and the rest of your colleagues.
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