Technical Product Owner

OUP's application portfolio includes customer facing digital systems, content and data platforms, web and ecommerce applications, learning and assessment solutions, online journals, and digital research tools. Within this broader portfolio, the Academic Division depends on a focused set of applications that enable Journals and Author Services, supporting submission, production, licensing, ecommerce, and related workflows. This role is responsible for ensuring these applications operate effectively and continue to meet evolving business needs.

The Technical Product Owner (TPO) serves as the technical owner for the applications in the Author and Journal Services portfolio and manages their full lifecycle, ensuring each application is supported, improved, and aligned with Academic growth needs. This includes tools like SciPris for author ecommerce and licensing, along with applications for submission management, production tracking, and specialist support for editors, authors, and product teams. The TPO ensures these applications remain stable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business and customer expectations.

The role ensures technical solutions deliver measurable value by collaboratively guiding requirements, shaping solution design in partnership with an architect, supporting testing and release, and maintaining clear high-quality documentation. As the primary contact for assigned applications, the TPO provides expert guidance, drives alignment across teams, and continuously improves application performance and processes.

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Experience of working as a business analyst, product owner or similar role (e.g. project manager, platform manager, product manager)
• Deep understanding of application and systems development, including feature development, delivery processes, and awareness of customer and market needs relevant to the product area.
• High-level technical understanding, including software development methods and practises
• Knowledge of methodologies associated with digital product development and delivery, in particular Agile, delivery approaches and tooling
• Strong knowledge of product and development management tools
• Knowledge of user-centred design principles
• Experience of working with third party suppliers

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.