eCommerce Product Owner

Liberty Towers; London; On-site; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Product Owner – eCommerce

Location: London

Salary: £80,000

Are you an experienced Product Owner with a passion for eCommerce, product strategy, and digital transformation? Do you have a strong background in Shopify, agile methodologies, and leading product development in a fast-paced startup environment? If so, we want to hear from you!

The Company

The client is an innovative eCommerce brand dedicated to providing seamless, customer-centric digital shopping experiences. As the Product Owner, you will play a crucial role in defining, refining, and executing their product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform remains at the forefront of the industry.

The Role

As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in defining, refining, and executing our eCommerce product strategy. Working closely with senior leadership, engineering, and stakeholders, you will ensure our Shopify-based platform delivers best-in-class experiences for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Defining & Refining Product Vision and Strategy
   • Work with senior management and stakeholders to define and refine product objectives, ensuring alignment with business goals.
   • Utilize market insights, analytics, and user feedback to continuously evolve the product vision.
   • Maintain a clear, strategic product roadmap that prioritizes value-driven enhancements.
2. Roadmap Prioritization & Management
   • Oversee the intake, triage, and assessment of product change requests and new requirements.
   • Lead backlog refinement sessions, ensuring features are appropriately prioritized based on business impact.
   • Keep the roadmap up to date, removing completed or obsolete items while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.
   • Create clear documentation and assets that communicate roadmap items effectively to stakeholders and engineering teams.
3. Roadmap Execution & Agile Delivery
   • Break down roadmap items into epics and user stories, ensuring clarity and alignment with development goals.
   • Maintain and prioritize work in Jira, ensuring sprints are structured for maximum efficiency and impact.
   • Work closely with the engineering team, answering questions, resolving blockers, and ensuring smooth development cycles.
   • Lead and participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
   • Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and contribute to QA efforts, ensuring high-quality releases.
   • Maintain detailed documentation for complex functionality to minimize errors and inefficiencies in future iterations.
4. Evaluating Success & Continuous Improvement
   • Define and track key product-related metrics, ensuring visibility into product performance.
   • Regularly assess metrics against the original vision and objectives, identifying areas for improvement.
   • Use insights from data to inform roadmap adjustments and optimize future product decisions.

Who We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner in a B2C eCommerce environment.
• Strong technical understanding of web development, PHP, APIs, RDBMS, AWS, and frontend-backend interactions to effectively collaborate with engineers.
• Expertise in Scrum and Kanban, with substantial hands-on experience in both methodologies.
• Extensive experience working with Shopify, including customizing and extending its capabilities to meet business needs.
• Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and Figma, with experience managing documentation and product assets.
• A track record of successfully delivering Shopify-related software development projects in an eCommerce setting.
• Experience in a startup environment, with a hands-on approach and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving business.