Senior Product Owner

Octave Intelligence
Gent, Belgium
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Computer-Aided Design AutoCAD Software Tools BricsCAD Data Analytics

Job description

Join BricsCAD’s Core team as Product Owner for Parametric Systems, leading the implementation of parametric and constraints modeling. You’ll own the roadmap for Parametric technology stability, performance, and innovation, working with a specialized development team to deliver capabilities that architects and engineers rely on daily.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a critical CAD technology used by professionals worldwide to automate their design workflows.

What Makes This Role Different

Parametric systems are inherently complex - constraints, dependencies, and dynamic behaviors that power advanced CAD workflows. This role requires translating that complexity into accessible user experiences.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap (40%)

  • Own the 18-month roadmap for Parametric modeling stability, performance, and new capabilities
  • Define success metrics for reliability, feature parity with AutoCAD, and customer adoption
  • Balance stability improvements with strategic innovations
  • Align parametric roadmap with BricsCAD’s strategic pillars (TRUSTED/BETTER)

Customer & Market Intelligence (30%)

  • Simplify complex constraint UIs for all user levels (major time focus; experience required)
  • Conduct workflow demos and presentations for teams and customers; comfort with complex system demonstrations essential
  • Partner with Sales to understand win/loss factors related to Parametric modeling
  • Work with Support/QA to prioritize stability issues by customer impact
  • Conduct user research to identify workflow gaps and innovation opportunities
  • Monitor competitive landscape (AutoCAD, Revit parametrics, etc.)
  • Translate customer pain into product requirements

Execution & Delivery (30%)

  • Translate parametric vision into actionable epics and user stories
  • Prioritize backlog based on customer value, business impact, and technical feasibility
  • Run agile ceremonies with parametric development team
  • Ensure quality through rigorous acceptance criteria and customer validation
  • Track and communicate progress against roadmap milestones

What You’ll Own

Years 1-2 (Primary Goals)

  • Stability & Reliability Reduce Dynamic Block crashes and performance issues, making it production-grade for enterprise customers.

  • Feature Parity Close critical gaps with AutoCAD’s Dynamic Block capabilities, removing barriers to BricsCAD adoption.

Requirements

  • 5+ years as Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role
  • Experience with technical products where reliability and performance matter
  • Strong customer empathy - understanding user workflows and pain points
  • Ability to balance stability (fixing what’s broken) with innovation (building what’s next)
  • Data-driven prioritization using customer impact, business value, and technical cost
  • Excellent communication with engineering teams and business stakeholders, * CAD, BIM, or engineering software experience
  • Understanding of parametric design, constraints, or rules-based systems
  • Experience working with Support/QA to triage and prioritize bugs
  • Background in competitive analysis and market positioning
  • Technical background (engineering, CS, or deep product work with engineers)
  • Experience managing complex, interconnected feature sets

Benefits & conditions

  • Product Owner for technical products where reliability is critical (fintech, healthcare, infrastructure)
  • Product Manager managing complex feature sets with many edge cases
  • Customer Success/Solutions Engineer who moved into product management
  • Technical PM balancing technical debt with new features
  • Domain expert (architect, engineer) transitioned into product management

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About the company

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That’s the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it’s the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it’s why we’re committed to creating an environment that’s truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world., At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don’t discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

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