Product Owner

Redefined Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Product Owner

About the job you’re considering

As a Product Management Consultant, you will work with our customers to define, build and improve excellent digital products and services. In Domains UK we specialise in digital transformation and believe that being product-centric is essential to achieving meaningful outcomes. We encourage user-centred thinking and work with our clients to both design change and help work towards full delivery of change.

We consider ourselves ‘product people’ and work across the different definitions of ‘product owner’ and ‘product manager’ with our clients. Alongside delivering excellent product management to our clients, we need someone who can help build our product management capability internally and help grow our knowledge base.

Your role

1. Act as a product manager for our clients, balancing the client’s strategy with the business, technical and user needs to deliver excellent digital products and services.
2. Work closely with BAs, UX, user research, technical teams, change managers and business operational teams to understand pain points and opportunities within products and services - focusing on the full end-to-end journey.
3. Have deep empathy for users/customers and work closely with user researchers to structure research to find user needs and pain points, work with UX colleagues to create and test prototypes.
4. Create and prioritise product and service roadmaps and backlogs, balancing all different viewpoints whilst being pragmatic and confident with decisions. Own and develop metrics to determine performance and benefits, working with performance analysts, be data-driven with decisions and outcomes.
5. Able to take a product through its full lifecycle from inception to live, working with stakeholders, product designers and engineers to iteratively release and adapt a product that is valuable, usable, feasible and viable.

Your skills and experience

1. Experience as a product manager/product owner either in industry or in consulting.
2. Agile by default – strong knowledge of agile development practices.
3. Fantastic consulting skills – facilitating workshops, solving complex problems, writing documents, delivering compelling messages, gaining trust, working with uncertainty, thinking on your feet! – will all be second nature to you.
4. You – bring your values, energy and motivation to add to and enhance our team and culture.

Desirable:

1. Understanding of product and service operating models to help clients develop their digital product vision and strategy.
2. Ability to coach and develop product management skills in client teams.
3. Experience in public sector product management and GDS.
4. Involvement in sales and pre-sales related content around contributing to proposals, presenting and managing proposals.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements. Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.