Sr. Product Owner

3 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Community Brands Full time

Overview:
We are seeking a Sr. Product Owner (Hybrid) to join our growing team

Responsibilities & Qualifications:
**Position Summary**

The Senior Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product by supporting the Product Manager to define and deliver value. The Sr Product Owner prioritizes Team Backlogs to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features and components for the Development team. The Sr Product Owner is occasionally directed in aspects of their work but demonstrates an ability to initiate and drive complex tasks within the job function.

**A Day in the Life**
- Partners with Product Manager to drive key program level projects, discovery activities, and cross-functional initiatives that align with the Product vision.
- Supports Product Manager with portfolio level initiatives, such as feature gap analysis, customer migration strategies, and cross-sell initiatives.
- Helps to manage business level partnerships, such as third-party service providers and payment processors.
- Assesses value, develops business cases, and prioritizes stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on maximum value that is aligned with the Product vision.
- Drives strategic goals by developing and delivering program level objectives for 1 or more scrum teams that support the Product vision.
- Takes product concepts and translates them into backlog epics, stories and requirements.
- Develops requirements documents, functional specifications, and mock-ups to clearly illustrate product ideas and concepts.
- Collaborates with peers on Program team to continually mature the backlog, with a focus on business value. A minimum of 2 sprints worth of work should be groomed at all times, per scrum team.
- Provides an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Sprint/Release goals.
- Leads via influence and represents the best interest of the company in decision-making processes.
- Conducts research and develops a good understanding of the customer's needs, new technologies, trends in the market, and competitors.
- Acts as a strong support to Business, Development, Sales, Support and Service managers through effective problem solving, collaboration, and communication strategies.
- Participates in all phases of the product development lifecycle, including analysis, design, testing, and integration of products, as well as the introduction of products to the market.
- Member of a cross-functional team that translates customer needs and technology directions into product definitions.
- May participate in the creation of documentation or user guides for new products.

**We are looking for someone who brings...**
- Must have strong written and spoken communication skills with the ability to present to internal and external audiences
- Must have experience with project management, with demonstrated skills in good decision-making, prioritization, follow-up, and artifact creation
- Proven ability to handle multiple tasks with mínimal supervision
- Must have an eye for detail and organization, with the ability to produce and track a plan, holding contributors responsible
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills with keen ability to deal with detailed, and sometimes ambiguous, information
- Must be a self-starter, with a bias towards action and the ability to develop collaborative partnerships with business leaders
- Must have a growth mindset and subscribe to a continuous learning philosophy
- Knowledge about education and nonprofit customers preferred
- Experience working within Agile development processes preferred

**Education and Experience**
- 2-4 years’ professional experience in product or project management
- A./B.S. degree or related work experience
- Experience working within scaled agile (SAFe) methodology a plus

Total Rewards:
About Community Brands UK

Great Technology doesn’t make the difference, great schools and inspired teachers do, but it can help Every day, we are driven by a shared purpose of letting technology do what it does best, creating space and time so that school staff and teachers can do what they do best, creating a better future and opportunities for all young people.

Our philosophy is to effectively ‘create time’ by helping to restructure the day, modernising the way schools use technology to streamline everyday processes, we lead the way in our sector, helping more schools daily than any other independent education technology company in the UK. Assisting schools in handling complex and time-consuming processes through providing tools, data, and structure to help them operate more efficiently.

Teachers2Parents, SchoolMoney, Parentapps, Groupcall Messenger, xporter, Wisepay and Assembly Analytics are just some of the market leading brands forming Community Brands UK. All together, we supply to over 18,000 schools, with another 24,000 schools using our data integrat


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