Product Owner

**CXC** **Global are working along side UKTV searching for a Product Owner to join their team**

**We have an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to join the Digital Products team.**

**It is a truly exciting time to join UKTV Play as we are embarking on an ambitious multi-year plan to expand UKTV Play's position in the UK market. A key component of this expansion is the evolution and iterative user focused development of the UKTV Play digital proposition.**

**In this role you will get to**:

- **Be a trusted member of the UKTV Product team with a shared belief and desire to take ownership and make UKTV Play a better user product**:

- **Help shape and deliver the UKTV Play digital proposition**:

- **Have a hands-on ownership role in delivering tactical and strategic Product initiatives with key focus on building our new UKTV Play web proposition**

**We are looking for someone who has**:

- **Experience delivering video products for a fast-moving, consumer-facing audience**:

- **An obsession with understanding customers' needs and pain points and striving to deliver better**:

- **An innate want to take ownership and the responsibility that come with it**:

- **Experience delivering digital products across web, mobile and/or Connected TV platforms**:

- **In-depth understanding of Agile processes/principles and working in Agile teams**

**Who you are**:

- **Collaborative, pragmatic and adaptive: able to build strong and effective relationships, internally and externally, and influence others**:

- **Passionate about User Experience and put the user at the centre of all analysis, design, and prioritisation activities**:

- **Experienced managing product delivery across multiple platforms**:

- **A Product Owner with experience writing intuitive, accurate and easy to understand user stories, prioritising and managing product backlogs and working collaboratively with design, development and QA**:

- **An Agile Product Owner that wants to support their team/squad**:

- **An analytical thinker that can understand problems and work collaboratively to identify and design the appropriate solutions**:

- **Technical aptitude: familiarity with different technologies and streaming architectures with an ability to communicate the same to non-technical audiences**:

- **At ease working on mainstream product platforms inc. Jira, Confluence, Miro, Craft etc**:

- **Comfortable working in a fast-paced agile environment and willing to support the wider team**:

- **Diplomatic, and a good negotiator**

**What you will do**:

- **Understand the UKTV Play ambition, mission, goals and objectives, supporting delivery of the product strategy**:

- **Evangelise the user: they are our primary focus and the basis of our success, in every product consideration/decision and in all communications with internal stakeholders and delivery teams**:

- **Work closely with the Senior Product Owner, Product Managers and Head of Digital Products to deliver the UKTV Play roadmap**:

- **Take responsibility for the Product Ownership and delivery of UKTV Play's new web site and support other Product Owners and Managers across all supported platforms**:

- **Build and manage the 0-3 month Product roadmap for UKTV Play web platforms**:

- **Be or become an internal SEO expert, improving our UKTV Play visibility and website rankings**:

- **Provide PO support for all UKTV Play activities including Connected TVs and mobile platforms**:

- **Actively participate and support, as a Product Owner, all agile ceremonies to provide maximum clarity and value**:

- **Define and write EPICs, user stories, acceptance criteria ensuring alignment with Product Management briefs/specs and ensure clear understanding across the delivering Agile team**:

- **Build and maintain product backlogs; assess value, prioritising EPICs and user stories**:

- **Have responsibility for the quality and alignment to briefs/specs of all Product Owner team output**:

- **Promote and drive a continuous culture of experimentation and improvement**:

- **Work closely with internal stakeholders to support content plans and marketing activities whilst championing user experience**:

- **Keep abreast of relevant industry news, key digital and VoD trends from a product perspective**:

- **Live, embrace and role model UKTV Values**

**Hybrid-Working**

**At UKTV, we are working in a hybrid environment with a mixture of home and office working. Getting together in the office as a team and a company gives colleagues an opportunity to build and maintain great relationships, encourages our culture of collaboration and creativity while recognising that colleagues need to have a healthy and happy work-life balance. You'll agree with your manager the split of time you spend in the office or at home based on the role that you do, how often you come together as a team and your personal preference.**

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