Product Owner - Build a team / deliver - Home Based - £50/70k NEG

Job title: Product Owner (Hands on software development leader)
Location: Home Based - Occasional UK Wide travel
Salary:£50,000 - £70,000 (NEG - commensurable with experience)
Benefits:
Bonus Scheme
30-35 days holidays
Employer Contributed Pension
Life assurance / life cover
Massively discounted holidays
Free Leisure Club Membership
Subsidised Food
Subsidised wellbeing and spa sessions
High street vouchers
Monthly / Yearly employee awards
Education: Of Graduate calibre
Qualifications: Any industry related
Industry: Service Sector
Why US
A dynamic, driven and fun working environment awaits you. You will be doing a broad and autonomous role. You will have the scope and flexibility to do the right thing and make a real impact, tolerance for experimentation and finding new ways to do things and the opportunity and space to stretch and develop your career in a variety of directions that would not be possible in a ‘traditional' corporate technology role.
Following the recent appointment of a new CTO, we are seeking to completely transform the technology and digital capability, creating innovative new systems.
We are looking for a Product Owner - who will help identify, scope, prioritise and then work cross-functionally within the business and with third party vendors to deliver a portfolio of customer facing digital products to improve customer experience.
As a small,agile,and aspirationalbusiness,the successful candidate will be expected tooperate in a ‘start-up’ mindset, focussingexclusivelyon theearlydelivery of working software andsubsequent rapid improvements and iterations.
This is a genuine product owner role with full end to end accountability for making and running customer-facing digital products, involving an exciting and rare blend of hands-on delivery, project management, research and commercial acumen.
Key Responsibilities:
Recruit and lead a high calibre, full stack development team tocreateand continuously developcustomer-facing digital products, specifically (but not limited to):
Customer app to enhance customer experience (including digital keys to access sites) Owner management system (this currently exists as a web app)
Booking front end
Potentialto develop additionalstartupproducts
Create,prioritise,and manage the product backlog(s), ensuring that customer benefit is delivered as quickly as possible.
Make sure that every pound of investment is invested wisely by ensuring that we build the right features in the right way – using data-led processes of exploration, experimentation, prototyping and pretotying to change fast and fail early.
Ensure that the team is engaged in the products they’re buildingand that they’re well-fed with high quality stories and acceptance criteria.
Conduct research,run multi-variate tests,test prototypes and/orengage in ‘pretotyping’ experiments to inform the product roadmap
Set up and manage agile development practices(ideally based on a Scrum-like model)for the team and run / participate in key ceremonies(refinement, stand-ups,demo’s,retrospectives).Implement measures to help the team understand and improve their performance.
Work with the team, CTO and Head of Product Development to make strategic technology choices
Recruit and manage one (or eventually more) UX/UI designer(s)and ensure that design artefacts are created in a sustainable fashion (e.g.as reusable component libraries)
Work with the Head of Product Development and CTO to ensure that the products we deliver can be sold (either on a SaaS or PaaS) basis to third parties.
Clearly communicate the vision,goalsand keyfeatures forproductstobusiness stakeholders (up toCxOlevel).
Work with stakeholders across the business to ensure that the products created are understood and operationally accepted.
Work with agencies, vendors,customersand stakeholders to ensure that initiatives deliver a great end-user experience
Manage existing vendors and source new vendors to support the delivery of initiatives
Act as point of escalation forseriousin-life faultsandtraining
Skills and Experience:
Practical experience with agile delivery methodologies (Kanban,Scrum)[Essential]
Proven use of structured analysis methods [Essential]
Good working knowledge of interaction design principles, UX design and graphic design (note, does not need to be “hands on” but must be able to tell good from bad and constructively critique– including the creation and management of design systems / component libraries) [Essential]
Good working knowledge ofone or moremoderntechnology stacks,ideally MERNor Microsoft/React.Again, does not need to be“hands on” but practical experience would be a distinct advantage.[Essential]
Commercially literate [Essential]
Numerate and familiar with the use of analysis tools,e.g.GoogleAnalytics,ClickTale,PowerBIis essential. Basic SQL and data manipulation using some form ofprogramming language (e.g.Python/Pandas/.NET) would be an advantage.
Good working understanding of common digital technologies[Essential]
Involvement in all aspects ofproject lifecycle [Essential]
Partner / vendorengagement andmanagement [Essential]
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.Compelling presentation skills [Essential]
Experience asproduct owner, ideally in asmall team orstartupenvironment [Essential]
CSPO qualification [Desirable]
Knowledge of Azure / AzureDevopswould be an advantage [Desirable]
Familiarity withthe capabilities ofone or moremodernhybrid appframeworks(ReactNative, Cordova, Flutter,Nativescriptetc).[Desirable]
Hands on experience is not required, however a broadunderstandingoftest drivendevelopment and test frameworks would be an advantage.[Desirable]
Recent experience of a B2C industry
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