Niels Van Der Linden

• • Built and led the product function across product management, service design, UX, software development, roadmap planning, product operations, and delivery rituals.

• • Shaped Circular IQ as a platform for measuring and improving circularity across products, material flows, suppliers, and organizational portfolios.

• • Led the evolution from assessment and reporting workflows toward dashboards, insights, scenario building, what if analysis, and decision support for circular performance improvement.

• • Worked on alignment with circular economy standards and frameworks, including CTI, GCP, ISO circular economy developments, ESRS E5, and Digital Product Passport related use cases.

• • Helped translate complex circular economy concepts into software workflows, role specific dashboard logic, requirements, UX behavior, and implementation ready specifications.

• • Developed AI supported product operations and specification practices to accelerate prototyping, improve delivery clarity, and reduce dependency on heavy traditional development cycles.

• • Contributed to customer and partner propositions, including bootcamp style adoption programs, account based marketing support, partner propositions, and renewal and upsell narratives.

• • Represent product and organization design in the management team, connecting product direction, commercial strategy, team capacity, and operational priorities.

• • Created and matured a distributed work setup, including team rituals, tooling, role clarity, competencies, collaboration processes, and daily product delivery practices.

• • Contribute to the stewardship of a network driven professional collective focused on ethical organizations, shared infrastructure, contributor roles, governance, and future of work collaboration.

• • Support Network Experience work, including community onboarding, public beta activation, guild creation, project framing, and member engagement on the Q1 platform.

• • Explore how role clarity, contribution tracking, revenue sharing, and governance models can help communities coordinate work beyond traditional employment structures.

• • Participate in the development of the Quorum Model and related structures for ethical collaboration, shared ownership, contributor participation, and network based venture building.

• • Develop guild concepts around open source software hosting, AI infrastructure, and useful digital tools for communities and purpose driven organizations.