I am a digital product lead.
I’m a bold PM crafting extraordinary experiences in marketplaces, e-commerce, and B2B platforms with unparalleled design and strategic expertise.
Goboony - Two sided marketplace
Scaling motorhome sharing
Goboony is Europe's leading online platform for private motorhome sharing. As Head of Product, I connect business strategy to product development, and rally all teams around the roadmap.
Maykers.com - E-commerce
A new B2B marketplace
Maykers has secured funding to scale its agricultural marketplace and become the ‘Amazon for Farming’. Scaling the platform while developing value-added services is the strategy to dominate the European market for agricultural purchasing.
AIMMS - business intelligence
A leap forward in usability
AIMMS offers powerful optimization tools, enabling organization like Nike, Shell and Heineken to improve their networks. The software was transformed into a cloud suite with great UX and preconfigured dashboards. We updated aimms.com as well.
What I do
Product ownership
As a Product Owner, I expertly transform ideas into software, creating roadmaps and guiding scrum teams to deliver effectively. With a design and engineering background, I excel in collaborating with creative and technical minds.
Digital consultancy
Thriving in value proposition design and new product development, my expertise lies in creating successful digital platforms that generate business growth and drive innovation.
Product leadership
As a Product Leader, I drive digital strategy implementation, focusing on building high-performance product teams while seamlessly expanding into marketing, sales, finance, and HR when necessary.
DPG Media - publishing
Branded content at scale
DPG Media can now enable brands to publish beautiful stories on leading Dutch newspapers such as Volkskrant.nl. The platform brought scalability into their advertising business, growing the branded content proposition from 0 to €15 Mio yearly turnover.
See KLM Campaign
Arbeidsmarkt In Zicht - BI
Data-driven decision making
ArbeidsmarktInZicht.nl enables data-driven policy making by providing data and insights on the labour market. Custom dashboards are created by cleverly combining data from the major research institutes such as CBS.
Client feedback:
‘Jan really gets our business and thinks strategically. He always delivers solutions that perfectly fit our needs. He's a very effective guy and a pleasure to work with.’
Ahold Delhaize - business intelligence
Retail performance at a glace
When people can see the impact of their work, they are motivated to achieve better results. With this goal, Albert Heijn developed retail dashboards for all of their Dutch supermarkets. It provides all relevant store information in one view.
ABU - content platform
Knowledge as backbone of the brand
Knowledge is at the hearth of the Dutch Organization for Employment Agencies (ABU), but the organization was not able to use this unique advantage. The new ABU.nl puts knowledge creation and sharing central stage.
My skills & expertise
E-commerce
I have worked with E-commerce companies and multi-sided marketplaces.
UX Design
Being educated as an industrial designer, I have a great sense for UI/UX design.
B2B platforms
I have developed various self-service platforms and business applications.
Roadmaps
Using the right metrics to prioritize, and making hard choices on what to build first.
Dashboards
Data is beautiful if you visualize it in the right way. I love to build dashboards.
Agile scrum
Daily standups, refinement, sprint planning and off course the demo. I will handle it.
Product vision
Simplicity and Usability are part of any product vision that I create.
Technology
I work with architects and developers to build robust API-based infrastructures.
Appic - community app
The leading festival community app
Appic is a leading and independent party discovery app. It is build on the loyal community of the legendary Partyflock website. The platform offers a strong backend for festival organisers as well, with lots of functionality.
Royal FloraHolland - self-service platform
Bringing flowers to the world
Royal FloraHolland is the largest fresh flower organization in the world. The users of the self-service platform are incredibly diverse, and need a range of tools from the organization. The platform and dashboard can be customized by the user to suit their needs.
