Product Owner

MCS Group are working exclusively with a leading insurance company in Belfast as they embark on an exciting period of growth. We're looking to connect with Senior Product Owners for an exciting, high-profile opportunity within their Belfast office - but with a global reach. Looking for a Product Owner role where you're not just managing a backlog, but genuinely shaping how technology solves real business problems? This is a brand-new position within a well-established organisation, created to strengthen the partnership between Technology and the wider business. You'll sit at the centre of that relationship, translating complex business challenges into clear, actionable product outcomes. The Opportunity The Senior Product Owner will report to the Director of Software Development and take ownership of one or more internal products across multiple workstreams. This isn't a client-facing B2B product environment. It's about driving internal product excellence, working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation to uncover real business problems, challenge assumptions, and shape the right solutions with the tech teams. You won't "own" the business domain or the technical domain but you'll be the catalyst that brings both together. What You'll Be Doing Owning and shaping product vision and strategic roadmaps Managing and prioritising multiple product backlogs Writing clear, high-quality user stories and epics Leading workshops and discovery sessions to uncover true business needs Challenging and reshaping requests to ensure the right problem is being solved Partnering closely with engineering teams within a pure Agile / SCRUM environment Managing cross-team dependencies and driving quarterly planning Presenting sprint demos and maintaining clear stakeholder visibility Using AI tools where appropriate to accelerate design and delivery Understanding cost, benefit and value and articulating that clearly to the business This is a highly visible, business-facing role with genuine progression potential for someone who establishes themselves well.

Solid commercial experience of operating as a Product Owner in a pure Agile environment. Experience owning an application or product end-to-end. Proven ability to work directly with senior stakeholders, including C-suite. Strong workshop facilitation and discovery skills. Confident in challenging, probing and reshaping requirements Solid technical understanding, you're not a developer, but you know what's possible (and what's not) Experience managing multiple backlogs concurrently Product Owner certification (or similar) Basic SQL skills Comfortable discussing architecture and technical dependencies Strong commercial awareness; understanding cost vs value

Up to £90,000 with a leading benefits package including, Employee share scheme, 38 days' leave (including bank/public holidays) and 16% company contribution pension

Muse Group

Muse Group empowers music makers. We create the world’s most popular content, apps and platforms for playing, recording and composing music.

Through our expansive music catalogs, educational expertise, innovative learning tools and free open-source software, we make it easier for millions — from beginners to experienced musicians — to be creative every day. 

The Muse community is now over 400 million strong. And we’re just getting started. 

Our future vision is of a world with over a billion music makers — and we have a drive to expand our influence into other creative spaces too.

What do we make?

We make essential resources for all kinds of creatives, from performers to podcasters. Learn more about the leading Muse Group products here.

Who are we?

Muse Group began life as Ultimate Guitar, the largest online global community of musicians. Eugeny Naidenov founded Ultimate Guitar in 1998, with a dream to make it easy for guitarists to play songs by Guns ‘N’ Roses and his other favorite rockers. From there, the site grew from a plucky, tab-sharing trailblazer into a global leader of online music publishing. 

In 2017, Ultimate Guitar acquired MuseScore, expanding its reach into sheet music. Muse Group has only continued to grow from there — and now includes Audacity, StaffPad and many more. 

In 2023, Muse Group acquired Hal Leonard, the legendary global sheet music publishers, adding an unparalleled music catalog and educational expertise to the team.

Today, we are an international, visionary team of creatives, music lovers and audio obsessives, developing products we could not live without.