Product Owner

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About The Job

We’re looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our Public Infrastructure Team. Your mission will be to help organizations solve operational challenges and transform the performance of their assets. With Brightly’s complete suite of intuitive software solutions - including CMMS, EAM, Strategic Asset Management, IoT Remote Monitoring, Sustainability and Community Engagement – help them realize a future where efficient operations and smart assets power sustainable communities.

The Product Owner is a crucial member of an agile team in ensuring that the product vision and business strategy is executed, thus driving growth. The Product Owner will consume roadmap and product backlog items, turning them into high-value solutions, and executing them with the development teams using agile methodologies. In this more senior role, you will be expected to indirectly lead individuals and teams, communicate with management and executives, and work with leadership from other departments including Engineering and Product Management.

This role offers hybrid working, with travel to our Chatham office each week.

You’ll create impact by:

1. Provide leadership, guidance, and an example to junior Product Owners.
2. Engage with Product Management to influence visions, roadmaps, business strategies and outbound marketing collateral.
3. Partner with Engineering Manager to understand their agile teams needs and champion them with Product Management.
4. Lead or support development of methodologies and best practices.
5. Actively participate in management reviews and presentations as needed.
6. Develop solutions to real-world market problems identified by Product Management’s roadmap.
7. Execute agile methodologies to fully develop solutions via story breakdown and agile ceremonies as a key member of an agile team.
8. Responsible for communicating priorities and goals at the beginning of each sprint in accordance with release goals, roadmap, and associated timelines/dependencies.
9. Participate in feature discovery with customers and the market and leverage this information to drive valuable solutions.
10. Maintain a healthy, prioritised backlog of work for the development team to work from.
11. Serve as the champion of the customer experience and partner with UX/design, product counterparts, and professional Services to deliver delightful user experiences across all customer touchpoints.
12. Understand Product Management’s business strategy, and evangelizing/executing it with agile development teams.
13. Diligently monitor KPI metrics and drive continuous improvements within the agile team.

You’ll build on your existing skills and expertise:

• Significant experience as Product Owner.
• Proficiency in backlog/roadmap management tools such as Jira or AHA!
• Expert at developing user stories and acceptance criteria and communicating business value to the engineering team.
• Consistent experience of working with engineering on communicating commitments and delivering results.
• Expert in Agile processes and principles. A certification is recommended.
• Superb communication skills for both oral and written communication; ability to communicate confidently across all levels in the organization.
• Strong ability to interpret and analyse data to support decision making.
• Experience working with and influencing product development teams and driving them toward a common customer and business vision all the way through to delivery.
• A results-oriented, proactive, and self-sufficient work ethic.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 5% if required.

Knowledge of Public Sector Enterprise Asset Management, Work Operations Management, Stock and Inventory Management or Field Operations Management solutions is beneficial.

The Brightly culture

We’re guided by a vision of community that serves the ambitions and wellbeing of all people, and our professional communities are no exception. We model that ideal every day by being supportive, collaborative partners to one another, conscientiously making space for our colleagues to grow and thrive. Our passionate team is driven to create a future where smarter infrastructure protects the environments that shape and connect us all. That brighter future starts with us.

We value your unique identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equal opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. Come bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us! So that we can support you to be your best during the application and interview process, please let us know if you have any specific requirements.