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# Product Owner

- **Company:** Persistent
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Scrum Methodology
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c6bd00f3a5ccc8a4

## About the Role

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

 * Knowledge of Application Programming Interface (API) will be desirable.
 * Foundational knowledge of product management and Agile methodologies.
 * SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (SAFe POPM).

Required Skills

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Customer Experience Empathy Maps, Journey Mapping, Story Mapping, StoryBoarding, Market Research, Product Management or Business Analysis etc., as well as job-specific skillsets.

Preferred Skills

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

 * Experience in managing product management initiatives.
 * Ability to advise and influence decision making.
 * Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
 * Lead a team performing complex tasks.
 * Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives

## Description

* Engage with other Product Owner's and Business stakeholders to discuss and negotiate dependencies.
 * Act as face of product to Stakeholders especially senior leadership.
 * Act as customer representative to team and explains the value of the change to the business.
 * Help elaborate Stories to Tech team where detail needed.
 * Review and accept of all work completed in Sprint.
 * Participate in Story Refinement sessions.
 * Participate in Sprint Planning to help team understand the change and ensure priority of work is correct.
 * Self-initiate new Ideas/ Product features / enhance existing features.
 * Seek funding opportunities from Stakeholders/Business Areas for new initiatives.
 * Experience of creating Business Case and presenting it to Senior stakeholders.
 * Work with Projects to exploit their funding to become the vehicle to deliver new features/improve existing as well as their core requirements.
 * Engage with users to understand user patterns / behaviours / potential improvements / pain points.
 * Analysis prioritisation in collaboration with other leads; Prioritise live issue fixes.
 * Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with Tech and Domain Lead to drive improvement.
 * Create Domain Roadmaps to detail feature delivery and timelines.
 * The need to drive metrics to bring to life the delivery of features and associated issues.


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