Senior Product Owner

Mission Overview:

This is a consultancy mission delivered by Keystone Solutions. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will work closely with the client to own the functional and business direction of a Smart Parking Controller product. You will gather needs from multiple countries and operational stakeholders, convert local problems into coherent and reusable product capabilities, define expected functional behavior, and maintain a roadmap aligned with business value, market timing, and realistic delivery capacity. All responsibilities and requirements below will be performed under Keystone Solutions' consultancy model at the client site or in a hybrid setup, depending on project needs.

Consultancy Nature of Work:

As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will operate in a model comparable to that of a software vendor, collaborating on-site or in hybrid mode with client stakeholders across countries. You will embed with client teams while benefiting from Keystone Solutions' consulting community, applying best practices and ensuring product coherence, scalability, and reusability across multiple markets.

Dynamic Projects:

Working through Keystone Solutions, you will tackle diverse challenges across multiple client contexts, from product discovery and demand management to capability shaping, roadmap prioritization, delivery collaboration, and stakeholder governance. You will engage with a variety of operational experts, user groups, architects, and delivery teams across different countries.

Turbo-Charged Learning and Development:

Keystone Solutions supports your professional growth with exposure to complex, multi-country product environments and software-vendor-like operating models. You will deepen your product management and senior functional analysis skills through real-world engagements, peer knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning opportunities.

Ambition Skyrocketing within a Consultancy Framework:

By rotating across engagements and owning critical product responsibilities, you will accelerate your career trajectory. Keystone Solutions provides a platform for consultants to make product-level choices, contribute to strategic roadmaps, and influence multi-stakeholder decisions in high-impact domains.

Keystone Solutions Values in Action:

Being a K-Stone means bringing integrity, client-centricity, collaboration, and pragmatic excellence to every engagement. You will champion reusable value, coherent product evolution, and constructive stakeholder relationships, ensuring measurable outcomes on each client project.

Context:

The Products & Services tribe develops a Smart Parking Controller as an internal product for countries. Although the customers are internal, the operating model is comparable to that of a software vendor: multiple markets express different needs, while the product must remain coherent, scalable and reusable. The role sits between country stakeholders, customer service and parking operations, product experts, architecture, security, legal and delivery teams. It combines product management with senior functional analysis. It is broader than a conventional Business Analyst role and more strategic than a sprint-level Scrum Product Owner role.

Primary Scope and Core Accountability:

• SPC product development, with assessment of country requests and potential reuse across the group.
• Define the right product capabilities, their functional intent, detailed functional analysis, priority and market-facing roadmap.
• Provide an agreed, sufficiently defined and prioritised release scope to the Product Delivery Manager.

Assignment Purpose:

Own the functional and business direction of the Smart Parking Controller product. The consultant gathers needs from countries and operational stakeholders, converts local problems into coherent and reusable product capabilities, defines the expected functional behaviour, and maintains a roadmap aligned with business value, market timing and realistic delivery capacity.

Key Responsibilities (performed as a Keystone Solutions consultant):

Product discovery and demand management

• Build and maintain an active network of country representatives, operational experts, user groups and other stakeholders.
• Collect, clarify and structure business problems, operational pain points, regulatory needs and product opportunities.
• Distinguish the underlying business problem from a stakeholder's proposed solution.
• Consolidate similar requests from different countries and identify common patterns, variants and conflicts.
• Assess whether a request should become a reusable SPC capability, remain country-specific custom development, or be