Product Owner

Product Owner - Horsham, West Sussex to £40k + Excellent Benefits

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join a market-leading telecommunications company and join a growing company. As a Product Owner, you will join a driven and successful Product team to deliver the best products to market. You will be responsiblefor collating knowledge from a variety of sources including industry trends, new technologies, customer requirements, business objectives and competitors to develop a considered product strategy and maximise the success of the company’s products.

You will work alongside Product Designers and Development Teams to generate detailed user stories, ensuring that agreed stakeholder objectives are met whilst overseeing the entire product development cycle.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product team (UI/UX, Product Management) and other stakeholders (Sales, Service Desk, Customers) to extract business and user requirements for our products.

Manage the Product backlog, taking into consideration the changing needs of the market and business ensuing that the correct features are delivered when needed whilst maximising value.

Creating user stories based on the backlog items using Jira which are then passed onto the development teams.

Interacting with the development teams on a daily basis, identifying and removing any blockers that they encounter.

Take new products and features from initial concepts all the way through to release.

Define and deliver MVPs for new products, testing new concepts to determine the value of future changes.

Perform high-level user acceptance testing to ensure that only the highest quality product is being provided to our customers.

You need to have:
Knowledge of the Product Development Lifecycle

Knowledge of Agile working methodologies

Keen interest in all things technology

Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite

2 years’ experience within the Product space

Self-starter with the ability to communicate and interact with people at all levels both externally and internally

Ability to work independently or as part of a team

Good presentation and influencing skills

Desirable but not essential:
Experience in the Telecoms sector

Working knowledge of Atlassian Jira platform

Degree in a Business discipline

**Benefits**:
Additional day off for your Birthday - 2 days volunteering leave per year - 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays) - Full office closure between Christmas and New Year - Childcare vouchers - Pension scheme - Gym, showers and games room - Monthly socialevents - Charity and fundraising events - Generous annual training budget - Apprenticeships including Degree Apprenticeships supported - Hybrid working an option after 3 months

Following your successful probationary period:
Vitality private health care (including hearing, sight and dental) - Bike2Work scheme - Performance bonus scheme - EMI share scheme - LinkedIn Learning platform