Product Owner

**Product Owner**

**Reports to**: VP of Engineering

**Location**:Hybrid - Newmarket

**Hours**:32 hours across a 4-day week (no salary sacrifice)

**Salary**: £40,000 - £50,000 per annum

**Who we are and what is important to us**:
Wonde is an innovative and fast-growing, ed-tech scale-up that is on a mission to deliver cutting-edge technologies to improve ways of working for the education sector.

We are trusted by over 25,000 schools globally in the security and reliability of their technology and data.

We're committed to changing the lives of students, teachers, and parents and want the help of talented individuals who will support our journey in driving better outcomes for the education sector.

**Job snapshot**:
This is an exciting time to consider joining Wonde as we're scaling and want you to help us create something special as we expand into new territories.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Working with multiple teams at Wonde to create accurate User Stories
- Maintaining a well-structured and prioritised backlog
- Facilitate Agile meetings such as Agile Storyboarding and other requirement gathering tools and techniques
- Define overall product vision and establish objectives
- Drive sprint planning in order to deliver maximum value
- Business partner with internal key stakeholders to develop, agree and implement project strategy
- Create, prepare and deliver reports on status of projects

**Requirements**:
**What we're hoping you'll bring**:

- Product Owner and or Business Analyst experience
- Proven track record of managing multiple projects within ambitious timelines
- Strong listening and communication skills with the ability to collaborate and build positive relationships internally and externally
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the willingness to challenge and be challenged (we love new ideas)
- Ambition and initiative to drive change with the confidence to embrace new ways of working in an ever-moving sector
- Ability to prioritise workflow and ensure deadlines are met
- Demonstrable knowledge of multiple agile techniques, processes, patterns and tools
- Backlog management using JIRA
- Experience working in Edtech (nice to have)
- Technical background (nice to have)
- A keen eye for designing new products and functionality

**Benefits**

**What you'll get**:
Wonde is much more than just a place to work. It is a place to grow, innovate, excel and learn. We have tech people, creative people and people people, all focused on providing a superior customer experience.

We value, support and champion those we work with - promoting personal growth and happiness. We get that our success is dependent on the collective energy, intelligence and contributions of all our team members and we are committed to ensuring our work environmentis the best it can be.

We value your commitment and have worked hard to create adaptable and comprehensive benefits packages to suit individual needs, although you can expect the below as standard:

- 4-day working week
- Flexible working schedule/work from home opportunities
- Onsite gym and well-being (quiet room) facilities
- Unlimited buying and selling holiday scheme
- Additional holiday for length of service
- Annual allowance for volunteering days
- Monthly lunch club (on us)
- Comprehensive wellness programmes (think meditation retreats and continuous access to wellbeing apps/initiatives)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Eye examination scheme
- Financial contribution to the set up of work from home environments
- Use of new and leading technology in the form of apple products
- Frequent company-funded social events
- Office closure between Christmas & New Year
- Access to continuous learning and development opportunities
- Comprehensive employee referral scheme
- Casual Dress Code

In addition to the above, you'll have access to our ‘take your pick' benefits scheme which is tailored specifically to you