Product Owner Data (AI & Data Science) - Temp 12 Months

GENERAL PURPOSE

As a Product Owner Data at adidas you are responsible for the quality and strategic impact of a data product. In collaboration with other departments, you work on continuously improving and evolving the product and ensuring maximized value and user experience in alignment with our company targets.

Defining a robust roadmap, backlog, managing capability expansion increments and leading prioritization of new capabilities & best practices are a few examples of the activities that will be expected from this role.

Additionally, you will collaborate with all global key stakeholders, including Global Markets, Data & Analytics, Business Functions, and Tech, driving user engagement and satisfaction, as well as outcome for adidas.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. Product strategy & delivery
    • Supporting in setting up goals and measuring outcomes and value delivered at product level overall in line with company targets. 
    • Contribute to create vision, strategy, long-term plan, and roadmap for the product, in line with company vision and strategy. 
    • Contribute to Improve ways of working within the product and with stakeholders to enhance release capacity and user experience quality. 
    • Ensure issues resolution, addressing topics, dependencies, and risks with the relevant stakeholders.  
    • Drive product delivery as per committed milestones.  
  2. Stakeholder management
    • Drive product stakeholders' engagement and management.
    • Act as the ambassador for your area of responsibility, showcasing the products and capabilities to markets and other strategic stakeholders.
  3. Product enablement & adoption
    • Contribute to successful enablement, adoption, and continuous improvement of your product.
    • Responsible for adoption KPI Tracking.
    • Ensure the creation and maintenance of product and process documentation for areas impacted by your product.
  4. Backlog Management  
    • Responsible for creation and refinement of actionable backlog items collaboratively with stakeholders and the dev team, in alignment with product objectives.  
    • Prioritize product backlog items in coordination with the Product team.  
    • Define and create functional requirements, ensuring well defined data, data science, UI/UX, acceptance criteria and quality, adhering to the Definition of Ready.  
    • Participate in the agile ceremonies to provide guidance and clarifications.  
  5. Product discovery & insights
    • Analyze and monitor Product KPIs, Milestones and create an action plan accordingly.  
    • Support in Business Case creation for strategic business opportunities and investment at product level.  
    • Contribute to the investigations and research to drive product Innovation and identify key investment opportunities within the product
    • Drive best practices, reusability, and optimization of product capabilities.  
    • Contribute to the user journey design and insights gathering for the product(s) 

IF REQUIRED RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. People Management
    • Not relevant

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

  • Global Digital Teams
  • Global Market Teams
  • Global IT and Global Operations
  • Global Data & Analytics Teams

REQUIREMENTS

  1. Education & Experience
    • Degree in Information Science, Statistics, IT, or Business Administration, or equivalent combination of education an experience of 3-5+ years of experience working in a Digital and/or eCommerce environment
    • Deep business analysis and functional skills (business and IT departments)  
    • Experience working with stakeholders and experts at various organizational levels
    • Experience in creating strong internal business cases to support investment and internal resource requests
    • Proven experience in managing global projects
  2. Soft-Skills
    • Strong communication skills and comfortable presenting to stakeholders at various organizational levels both in person and remotely
    • High resilience and solution-oriented attitude 
    • Basic leadership skills  
    • Commercial and business acumen
    • Strong influencing and negotiation skills
    • Solutions-oriented approach and entrepreneurial mindset
    • Flexible team player able to work in both a group and individual atmosphere.
  3. Hard-Skills
    • Good Analytical and Data Visualization Skills
    • Expert domain knowledge
    • Familiarity with A/B testing or other multivariate testing
    • Expert knowledge of Agile working methods e.g. Scrum/Kanban
    • Comfortable working with enterprise-level platforms and technologies
    • Hands on experience leveraging AI tools to prototype and build business solutions
    • In-depth understanding of technology and Digital capabilities
    • Fluent in English both verbally and written


At adidas, we strongly believe that embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into our culture and talent processes gives our employees a sense of belonging and our brand a real competitive advantage.

– Culture Starts With People, It Starts With You –

By recruiting talent and developing our people to reflect the rich diversity of our consumers and communities, we foster a culture of inclusion that engages our employees and authentically connects our brand with our consumers.

Job Title:  Product Owner Data (AI & Data Science) - Temp 12 Months

Brand: 
Location:  Amsterdam
TEAM:  General Management & Business Development
State:  NH
Country/Region:  NL
Contract Type:  Full time
Number:  543602
Date:  Apr 20, 2026