Product Lead

Role Purpose

The Product Owner – Source-to-Pay (Public Sector) is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering product capabilities that enable Unit4 customers to comply with complex public sector procurement regulations across multiple countries. The role treats regulation and compliance as core platform capabilities, ensuring scalable, build-once solutions with country-specific overlays where required. The Product Owner works closely with Product Leads, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders to translate regulatory and market needs into high-quality product outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and refine the product backlog for public sector Source-to-Pay capabilities, ensuring alignment with overall product strategy and delivery priorities.
• Translate public sector regulations and procurement practices into clear, actionable product requirements and user stories.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Legal, Compliance, Security, and UX to define compliant, scalable, and accessible solutions.
• Ensure product capabilities support audited, legally defensible end-to-end procurement processes.
• Support multi-country roadmap planning, balancing harmonized platform capabilities with country-specific needs.
• Participate actively in sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure readiness and delivery of quality.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of public sector procurement regulations at EU and national level, with initial focus on Nordics and the Netherlands.
• Hands-on experience with EU eForms and regulated publication requirements, treating compliance as a first-class product capability.
• In-depth knowledge of supplier qualification processes, including ESPD and country-specific variations.
• Solid understanding of MEAT-based evaluation models, including criteria definition, weighting, scoring mechanisms, and justification requirements.
• Proven ability to define and document audit trails and procurement dossiers to meet legal and audit standards.
• Awareness of accessibility standards such as WCAG 2.1 AA and experience incorporating non-functional compliance requirements.
• Understanding public sector security and hosting constraints, including MFA, data residency, and local hosting expectations.
• Experience working with multi-country, phased product roadmaps using build-once / country-overlay approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across legal, compliance, engineering, and business teams.
• Ability to run research and discovery activities and translate regulation into product requirements.

Ways of Working

• Operates within Unit4 delivery standards and Agile product practices.
• Works under the strategic direction of a Product Lead while owning day-to-day backlog execution.
• Uses evidence, regulation, and customer insight to inform prioritization.
• Contributes to a culture of collaboration, transparency, and outcome-focused delivery.

Who we are

We are a people-first community that nurtures all the areas that surround your working experience. With us, you’ll be surrounded by a high-performance team that supports your authentic self and celebrates your uniqueness.

We believe that ‘How work should feel’ is an evolving statement. Work goes beyond tasks and everyday responsibilities it’s about feeling valued, empowered, promoted, impactful, seen, and appreciated.

We are reimagining how work makes people feel.

What we offer

• a culture built on trust and accountability - giving you the freedom and autonomy to be successful and make an impact
• balance - with our Flexible Leave Paid Time Off policy, remote working opportunities, Global Wellbeing Days, and other great benefits
• growth opportunities - we provide the tools and guidance required so that you can focus on what really matters to you and so, ultimately, you can achieve your best work
• talented colleagues, role models and mentors - work, learn and be inspired by some of the best talent in the software industry
• a commitment to sustainability - with initiatives such as our Environmental, Social, and Governance strategy and Act4Good programme
• a safe and inclusive working environment – supported by our Employee Resource Groups, which are open to all.

Our commitment to equity

Unit4 is committed to ensuring equal opportunity for everyone. We make our hiring decisions solely based on skills, qualifications, and our current business needs. We know that diversity brings fresh perspectives, ideas, and solutions to our company. This is the essence of our culture. We also welcome and encourage people who are pregnant and/or parents-to-be to apply. If you would like to know more about our commitment to diversity, visit our blogs:

• Our focus to DEI remains central to who we are
• Inclusive hiring at Unit4: Building equal opportunities for all

Background check :

This role may require security clearance required for customer projects and access to sensitive (customer) data. That means that after you have accepted our offer, we could ask for background checks. Subject to applicable local laws, such security checks may require disclosure of personal information including criminal record declaration, right to work, personal identification and work history. No worries – we'll handle it according to local privacy laws and keep your information safe. Questions? Feel free to reach out!

Salary range: 791,655 - 828,689 DKK