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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Owner - **Company:** Pontoon - **Location:** Bristol, UK - **Salary:** £130,000.0 - £156,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Pega, Cloud Migration - **Published:** September 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-49F2597C699DA7BE77/ ## About the Role * Strong Product Owner experience in Agile environments. * Experience managing product backlogs and prioritisation. * Articulate benefits and business value to support prioritisation. * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills. * Ability to translate strategy into delivery outcomes. * Experience with Jira and Jira Align. * Experience working with cross-functional Agile teams. * Knowledge of Insurance, Pensions and Investments products and customer journeys. * Experience with Pega technology, including App Studio. * Experience in process modernisation, workflow or automation delivery. * Understanding of Cloud migration and operational transformation programmes. ## Description The Product Owner is responsible for owning and prioritising a product backlog for a specific process, journey, feature or technology component, ensuring the team delivers the highest-value outcomes for customers, colleagues and the business. The role acts as the bridge between Operations, stakeholders and delivery teams, translating strategic objectives into deliverable outcomes. The PO works alongside the Lab Product Owner, Engineering Lead, Integrator, Customer Journey Managers and developers/testers to deliver modernised customer and colleague journeys on Pega Cloud., * Define and communicate a clear product vision. * Translate business strategy into prioritised outcomes, epics, features and stories. * Own and manage the team backlog. * Ensure delivery aligns to MVP principles and maximises value. * Measure and report benefits realisation and product performance. * Prioritise, refine and manage the team's backlog. * Lead discovery, refinement and planning activities. * Ensure work is well-defined, sized and ready for delivery. * Maintain alignment between Lab priorities and Feature Team priorities. * Work closely with Heads of Function, Business Product Owners, SMEs and Operations teams. * Facilitate decision-making and obtain relevant sign-offs. * Manage competing priorities and resolve ambiguity. * Build strong relationships across Operational and Engineering teams. * Lead initiatives through the end-to-end lifecycle. * Deliver change safely in line with Platform 3.0 and PCF standards. * Own governance, reporting, risk and issue management. * Working with operations to ensure business readiness, communications, training and operational handover activities are completed. * Work with Integrators and Engineering Leads to manage cross-team dependencies. * Support release planning and implementation planning. * Ensure successful deployment and adoption. ## Related Videos - [Green Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/592-green-cloud-computing) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Stop Renaming Teams, Start Product Thinking: A PM's Guide to Platform-as-a-Product](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100342-stop-renaming-teams-start-product-thinking-a-pm-s-guide-to-platform-as-a-product) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [Building an agentic software factory: How we rebuilt product development at Pipedrive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100261-building-an-agentic-software-factory-how-we-rebuilt-product-development-at-pipedrive) - [WebAssembly: The Next Frontier of Cloud Computing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/972-webassembly-the-next-frontier-of-cloud-computing) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Velocity with Guardrails: How Technical Teams Can Move Fast Without Losing Decision Integrity](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/747-velocity-with-guardrails-how-technical-teams-can-move-fast-without-losing-decision-integrity) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Everything a Developer Needs to Know About MCP with Neo4j](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/604-everything-a-developer-needs-to-know-about-mcp-with-neo4j) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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