Product Owner: Online

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Our versatility, scale, technology, and expertise enable our 5000 people across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America, and Africa to understand audiences and help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

Job Title: Product Owner: Online

Location: London, Grays Inn Road

Salary: Competitive

Full time/Permanent/Hybrid

Role Description:

The global product function leads on the product strategy to fulfil our client needs, in close alignment with markets and owns the overall development roadmap across functions.

Kantar Media is a global leader in media research. This includes audience measurement - reporting all viewing on all platforms, consumer profiling and targeting with TGI, and in-depth advertising intelligence. Our versatility, scale, technology, and expertise enable our teams to understand the changing media landscape and drive growth for our clients.

Role Responsibilities:

The Product Owner (PO) of the Online team leads and owns the development and performance of the digital processing of Kantar panel data throughout its entire lifecycle: analysis, monitoring, development, maintenance, and continuous improvement.

The key areas within the remit are:

• Processing of SW/HW meter data and 3rd party tag suppliers
• Creation of sessions
• Definition of editing rules,
• Viewership attribution and online content resolution
• Secure exchange of identifiers and ad impressions from Event Data Providers

Role Requirements:

The PO is a member of the Product Team, that will join the Agile Team, as the one responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program/solution priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Owns the Team Backlog, provides prioritisation.
• Take the lead of agile teams as the Product Owner.
• Preparation and participation in the Sprint plan. Defines iterations (releases), defines User Stories (create requirements) and refines/updates the team backlog. During the Sprint planning the PO provides the necessary clarifications to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing.
• Track the release progress collaborating closely with the Agile Team, ensuring that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionality.
• Support the development squad teams to rebalance effort between user story development and defect/ticket resolution, daily.
• Support the development of and the execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, coordinating all test activities, and ensuring that each story meets acceptance criteria.
• Analyse and report delivery, progress, risks and opportunities.
• Ensure that the technical debt is properly managed, with the support of SW Architecture leads.
• Coordinates dependencies with other POs
• Contributes to the Product vision/strategy and Roadmap.
• Understand, challenge, and communicate the product vision/strategy developed by Product management to the Agile development team and feedback to Product Management.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog that relates to the solution backlog owned by the Product Manager, according to business value or ROI.
• Build Product Documentation.

Your profile and key skills we are looking for.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Telecommunications or equivalent, enriched with technical knowledge.
• Demonstrable knowledge on Programming Languages, Data Management Tools, and Cloud solutions.
• Have strong communication and leadership skills to navigate in a dynamic/global organization across multiple countries.
• Teamwork and team-player.
• Knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies, Product Owner certification or similar is a plus.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Established background in developing, launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles.
• Strong analytical abilities, problem-solving skills and functional understanding of customer business processes
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills. Ability to multitask and work under pressure.
• Are highly proficient in spoken and written English (we are an international team), other languages is a plus.

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Experience in the audience measurement business.
• Experience with Agile and possibly SAFe frameworks for software development.
• Experience working with agile teams and aligning with stakeholders to deliver with fast time-to-market, quality and ownership.
• Experience in data science techniques, statistics, analysis and visualization of data is always nice to have.

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