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# Product Owner

- **Company:** Vodafone Limited
- **Location:** Newbury, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Encodings, Scrum Methodology
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=12f392aee4b56bf5

## About the Role

Do you have experience in SAFe?, * Proven experience as a Product Owner working across multiple squads or teams in complex delivery environments.

 * Strong collaboration skills with developers, engineers, technical leads and delivery roles; able to work as a peer rather than a proxy.
 * Practical experience shaping, embedding and evolving agile Ways of Working (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or hybrid models).
 * Comfortable operating in ambiguity, driving alignment and momentum without relying on formal authority.
 * Strong facilitation, prioritisation and decision-making skills, particularly in multi-team contexts.
 * Demonstrated technical product ownership at scale, owning and refining backlogs, translating feature intent into buildable scope and driving predictable delivery.
 * Systems thinking mindset, with an appreciation of re-use, configurability, operability and the long-term impact of delivery decisions.
 * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Security and external partners.
 * Experience supporting multi-market or multi-tenant delivery environments.

## Description

* Own and prioritise backlog items across multiple delivery squads, ensuring alignment to agreed product outcomes, dependencies and sequencing.
 * Translate product strategy, goals and feature intent into clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteria that teams can confidently deliver against.
 * Co-define, embed and continuously evolve Ways of Working with developers, engineers and delivery leads, shaping how teams plan, refine, deliver and review work.
 * Balance delivery speed with quality, operability and technical sustainability, making informed trade-offs where required.
 * Lead and facilitate backlog refinement and iteration planning across squads, ensuring work is 'ready', well understood and aligned to delivery capacity.
 * Make day-to-day backlog, scope and sequencing decisions, escalating only where trade-offs exceed agreed governance or impact broader product outcomes.
 * Act as the primary point of clarity between Product intent and technical execution, resolving ambiguity and reducing friction across squads.
 * Support alignment across squads to ensure consistent delivery approaches, shared standards and predictable outcomes.
 * Escalate feature-level conflicts, risks or exceptions to the Senior Product Manager / Head of Product via agreed governance routes.


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