Product Owner

Product Owner
Remote (with a visit to one of their main offices perm month (Reading, Exeter, Kent)
£45,000k per annum + excellent benefits

Currently hiring for Product Owner who is a natural and effective communicator, develops and maintains excellent relationships with their peers, customers, and stakeholders. Forward-thinking, inquisitive, analytical and, is a problem solver. Highly organised, excellent at planning and managing work. You can identify, isolate, and resolve complex problems using an array of well-versed techniques.

As a Product Owner you will have an out-of-the box style of thinking and always considers the wider picture when providing clear, concise, and well-thought-out analysis. Be adaptable and passionate about quality, demonstrating attention to detail to optimise the effectiveness of product delivery and comply with definitions of done.

You will also have/be:

• Solid experience in building, launching, and maintaining digital consumer products/services in a product ownership role.
• Experience dealing with stakeholders in different functions and of different levels of seniority.
• An excellent understanding and experience in a scrum/agile product delivery experience.
• Strong appreciation for web technologies and cloud-based platforms.
• Technical fluency; understanding and discussing architectural concepts, schedule trade-offs, and new opportunities with technical team members.
• 2:1 BSc Computer Science or another STEM subject is desirable

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop and prioritise detailed product user stories/requirements to deliver high-quality products that meet or exceed our customer's expectations.
• Translate and articulate complex business problems into easily understood solutions, documenting un-ambiguous definitions of scope.
• Write epics and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Groom and prioritise backlog items to best achieve core business objectives.
• Align stakeholders on the status, demonstrating progress, and ensure the backlog is visible, transparent, and clear.
• Communicate complex concepts to all levels of an organization and customers.
• Define problems, collect data, analyse data using a range of techniques, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Work collaboratively with others to accomplish goals.
• Demonstrate a flair for innovation and creativity, focusing on outcomes.
• Demonstrate a self-starting, hardworking and, inquisitive approach, always considering the bigger picture.
• Demonstrate exceptional planning, facilitation, dependency management, risk management & analytical skills.
• Understand the customer/ user of the product, utilising and sharing user journeys, personas, user experience data, and metrics to reinforce this understanding across the wider team.
• Treats Security and DevOps as a mindset considering within all analysis and project work.
• Be the internal evangelist for your area of the Product Management vision

In return you will get following
Friendly, dynamic, and supportive team. They encourage passion, ambition, and collaboration, both in their performance as a team and individually. New ideas are encouraged they actively promote involvement in the development and direction of their products and services, as well as finding more efficient ways to work. They also love a good work social and team building events. As well as this we offer:

• Competitive salary
• 25 days' holiday, with optional 5 days unpaid leave per year
• Free parking
• Annual lifestyle allowance of £300 to put towards an activity of your choice
• Cycle to Work scheme and Gym Flex scheme
• Internal coaching/mentoring system throughout your time here
• Focus on training and career progression
• Family friendly policies
• They are happy to talk about flexible working

Please apply within!!