Junior Product Owner

We are seeking a proactive and motivated Junior Product Owner. You will play a crucial role by assisting in managing product backlogs, prioritising features, and ensuring the development team understands the product vision. This position offers a great opportunity to grow your analytical and decision-making skills, particularly in Scrum and agile methodology, while working alongside an experienced product team.

Duties

1. Stakeholder management

• Engaging with stakeholders to understand the wants and needs of the product and to assist in the delivery of their requirements.

2. Intrinsic member of assigned agile squads

• Integration into development teams, leading their product development and making sure all targets and goals are reached.

3. Define high quality epic and user story definitions

• Creating epics and user stories of a high quality allowing the development team to work on with little interruption.

4. Backlog management

• Understanding the roadmap and product backlog and keeping them up to date.
• Prioritising features and tasks dependent on stakeholder needs.

5. Ensure upkeep of documentation

• Keeping product documentation up to date and consistent with each version released.

6. Developing a deep understanding of the product

• Becoming thoroughly familiar with all the features and functionalities of the product.
• Understanding the user journey and experience, this involves regularly reviewing user feedback and analytics.
• Basic understanding of the technical infrastructure and any underlying technologies used in the product.

7. Promote sustainability practices to minimise the company's carbon footprint and waste

Do you have experience in Time management?, 1) Analytical thinking

• Proficiency in analysing data and user feedback to help in informing product decisions.
• Experience utilising analytical tools to assist in the decision making.

2. Strong communication

• Ability to clearly convey ideas and requirements to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• An ability to navigate and resolve conflict within stakeholders should it occur.
• Effective Presentation Skills to showcase product updates and roadmaps.

3. Time management

• Capability to prioritise tasks and manage time efficiently in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable skills

1. Knowledge of Scrum and Agile Methodology

• A basic understanding of Scrum and how to utilise it within a development environment.
• Knowledge of Agile methodology

2. Self-learning & Problem Solving

• Aptitude for identifying issues and developing effective solutions and strategies.
• An eagerness to learn different methodologies or technologies.

Why you should pick us: * Dedicated PDP time: We give you dedicated time to be spent on your personal development each week. * We'll help grow your knowledge: We have a dedicated internal Learning and Development department to help upskill you throughout your career with us. * Everyone needs a break sometimes: We give 22 days' annual leave, plus bank holidays (increasing with service.) * To help you celebrate: We provide an extra day off for your Birthday. * Make a difference: Enjoy an extra day off annually to dedicate to volunteering and giving back to the community. * Team building is important: We have a departmental outings budget so everyone can get to know each other outside of work. We also have regular companywide events. * New starter WFH allowance: Outside of your technical equipment, which we of course provide, we also give £100 Work from Home Allowance to go toward anything else. * Thinking of the future: We have Pension & Private Healthcare Insurance schemes. * Drive green: Take advantage of our electric car leasing scheme via salary sacrifice. * Stay active, earn rewards: We provide MyZone fitness watches to help you stay active and healthy. By consistently engaging in physical activity, you can earn up to 3 extra days of holiday per year - a great way to boost wellbeing and reduce absence.