Product Owner - GenAI Engagement team

Join our AI Movement as a Product Owner and take your career to the next level! In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovation, working on the newest tools in the landscape of AI. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the rapidly evolving field of generative AI.

This is how you will reinvent food retail.

• You will play an important role in enabling other teams to work with and adopt AI, acting as a force multiplier.
• You will add value by creating and guarding the roadmap aligned with our strategy.
• You will have a pivotal role by collecting requirements and prioritizing AI solutions.
• You will assess incoming AI use cases, define their value with stakeholders, and ensure requirements are met.
• You will work in a highly innovative field at an enterprise level (TechNL).
• You will transform the way of working within our organisation at TechNL.
• You will be a key figure and inspiration to the organisation within TechNL.
• You will add value by creating requirements, consulting teams, and implementing new features.

TechNL consists of many members dedicated to developing the AI Platform, Accelerators, and supporting Consulting. Our focus is on leveraging AI technologies to create impactful solutions. We foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning, ensuring that every team member feels valued and empowered.

Together with your team, you will work on inspiring projects to accelerate our transition into a hybrid Food & Tech company. We want to leverage data and technology to future-proof food shopping and make healthy food more accessible for everyone. At Albert Heijn, you team up with inspiring peers in the data, digital, and tech domains—a community of diverse individuals who share a common goal: to create digital solutions that make (online) shopping simpler and more inspiring. Are you ready to reinvent the way millions of people buy and enjoy their food? We invest heavily in data, digital, and tech—and that includes investing in your career! Our teams work in a hybrid way: both from home and in the office. We are located right next to the train station of Zaandam.

What we offer.

• An annual salary up to 85K including holiday allowance and a flexible bonus, depending on your experience.
• 45 days of paid leave: 25.5 regular vacation days and 19.5 ADV days.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a challenging training curriculum – AH Tech Academy.
• An excellent pension plan where we as an employer contribute 4.5 times more than you as an employee.
• A travel allowance or an NS-business card for commuting to and from Zaandam by train.
• Attractive discounts on various insurance policies.
• 10% staff discount on groceries in all Albert Heijn stores, up to €300 per year.
• A free Mijn Albert Heijn Premium membership with many benefits.
• A company laptop and telephone.

The recipe for maximum impact

• Preferably 1-3 years of work experience as a Product Owner in a high-performing team.
• High knowledge and experience in Agile methodologies like Kanban and Scrum.
• Familiarity with the AI landscape.
• Basic knowledge of workflow automation tools (Langflow, N8N, Tray, or similar solutions).
• Knowledge of AI frameworks like LangChain is a big plus.
• Basic knowledge of Python, SQL, and APIs is a big plus.
• Strong interest in AI.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to motivate people.
• Tech savvy, proactive, and passionate about technology.

We’re Albert Heijn, food retail reinventors.

Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone. The world around us has changed, and significantly at that. These changes impact the lives of our customers, colleagues, and partners—and therefore, also on Albert Heijn. We’re moving towards a new world with new opportunities and challenges. Albert Heijn wants more people to eat fresher, healthier, and more sustainable food. Eating brings us together, keeps us healthier, and contributes positively to the world. Our mission is: Together we make eating better the easy choice. For everyone.

Albert Heijn the Netherlands is B Corp certified. This underscores our purpose, through which we aim to contribute to a healthier, more social, and sustainable society. B Corp certification is a designation that a business is meeting high standards of verified performance, accountability, and transparency.

Ready to contribute to our mission?

Do you want to play an active role in changing the food retail landscape as we know it? Then hop on board and join us on our expedition. Would you like to learn more first, before you apply to Albert Heijn? We’re happy to tell you everything about this vacancy! An assessment might be part of our selection process.

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