Junior Product Owner

Gama Aviation Ltd
Farnborough, United Kingdom
29 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior

Job location

Farnborough, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
JIRA
Azure
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Design of User Interfaces
Scrum
Software Prototyping
Release Management
Website Wireframe
Backend
Figma

Job description

As a Junior Product Owner, you'll work closely with senior product owners and collaborate across engineering, solutions consulting, support, sales and marketing teams. You'll help curate and maintain the product backlog, ensuring user stories and acceptance criteria are clear, structured and ready for engineering refinement. This includes wireframing, workflow modelling and prototype creation to articulate requirements and validate understanding with internal teams and customers. You'll gain exposure to aviation workflows, SaaS product behaviour, UI/UX principles and Agile delivery practices, developing the skills needed to grow into a fully autonomous Product Owner. This role blends analytical thinking, communication skills and a passion for building great products.

/ Primary Responsibilities include

  • Represent the customer and translate their needs for the engineering teams.
  • Create and refine Epics, Features and User Stories aligned to customer outcomes.
  • Help maintain a prioritised product backlog, balancing customer impact, dependencies and business value.
  • Produce wireframes and workflow models using Sketch.
  • Take part in pre-refinement and refinement sessions with engineering teams.
  • Support the creation of release notes and documentation for new features.
  • Assist release management by reviewing qualitative testing evidence against acceptance criteria.
  • Work with Solutions Consultants to understand onboarding requirements and customer workflows.
  • Partner with Support Engineers to identify recurring issues, feature requests and improvement opportunities.
  • Prepare materials for marketing, customer success and sales teams.
  • Assist in hosting customer workshops, demos and internal knowledge-sharing sessions.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Wireframing?, * Experience working with software products or cloud-based systems in any capacity (support, onboarding, QA, analysis, customer-facing roles).

  • Ability to interpret customer requirements and translate them into clear, structured information.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.

  • Experience explaining system behaviour to technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Understanding of how UI behaviour maps to backend processes.

  • Ability to document requirements clearly and break down complex workflows.

  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise effectively.

  • Collaborative, customer-focused and eager to learn.

  • Desirable

  • Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

  • Experience with SaaS platforms requiring configuration or tailored solutions.

  • Familiarity with wireframing or prototyping tools (Sketch, Figma, InVision).

  • Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or similar tools.

  • Basic understanding of business processes and workflow logic.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Employee discount
  • Free parking
  • Company pension
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Car scheme, In addition to a Competitive Salary, we will offer you:
  • Investment in Training, Qualifications and Professional Development
  • Competitive Group Pension Scheme
  • Comprehensive Life Assurance *
  • Comprehensive Income Protection *
  • Comprehensive Travel Insurance *
  • Comprehensive Private Healthcare (after successful passing of probation) *
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Free Car Parking
  • Discounts at popular Retailers
  • 2 Paid Volunteering Days each calendar year (subject to line manager approval)

*(Subject to insurance underwriting)

About the company

myairops is a leader in SaaS solutions for the aviation industry, supporting customers worldwide across corporate flight departments, charter brokers, medical providers, military operations and business aviation. We're a team of experts, optimists and problem-solvers who value communication, respect and collaboration. If you want to be part of an ambitious, growing company with a strong culture, this is the place to be.

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