Product Owner

**The Opportunity**:
As our **Product Owner,** you will work closely with Product Managers, department heads, sales, technical support, and other stakeholders to extract and translate high-level business and customer requirements into technical working documents and deliverables.

This is a hybrid role based in our **Cambridge or London** **office, so you will ideally be comfortable coming into the office once or twice a week. If you’re interested in the role but require more flexibility, please speak to us

**Day to Day**:

- Lead Scrum teams to define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities and communicate with stakeholders
- Be the voice of the customer throughout design and build phases
- Work with external and internal stakeholders to analyse and align needs to strategic goals and ROI
- Maintain and plan the product backlog to ensure alignment to stakeholder needs and business value
- Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate vision, priorities, and progress
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work aligns with product strategy
- Be an active participant in all scrum ceremonies
- Break down and prioritize deliverables for the Engineering team(s) through the creation of features, epics and stories.
- Communicate effectively and efficiently across all aspects of the product delivery
- Plan and coordinate product releases, considering factors such as feature dependencies, resource availability, and market timing
- Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of the product and adjust strategies accordingly
- Align with architecture and software leadership on non-functional requirements and incorporate in requirements
- Actively seek feedback and incorporate lessons learned into future product development cycles to ensure continuous improvement
- Make informed decisions on prioritization, trade-offs and scope changes based on a deep understanding of business goals and user needs
- Manage capacity of team through planning, forecasting work, and velocity**Featurespace launches ARIC Scam Detect to protect the financial services industry and outsmart scammers - Featurespace**:
**About you**:
**Must haves**:

- Have a passion for Product development and have already built some experience as a Product Owner
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to lead cross functional teams, collaborate effectively, and foster a positive and productive team culture
- A solid understanding of software development processes, technologies, and architecture to facilitate effective communication with development teams and make informed decisions
- Excellent written and verbal communication to effectively convey ideas, priorities, and product vision to diverse audiences including stakeholders, development teams, and customers
- Skill in negotiating priorities and resolving conflicts among different stakeholders to maintain project momentum and achieve successful outcomes
- Enjoy working as part of a close team
- Experience of interacting with customers, hearing their feedback and converting this into Product deliverables
- Create support and training documents for internal and external users
- Be curious, research, and ask questions
- Be result and target orientated
- Work with the rest of the global teams to deliver a common goal
- Show a strong desire to succeed and make a difference

**Great to haves**:

- Knowledge and/or interest in FinTech
- Experience working with teams in multiple locations
- Have exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail
- Be a creative thinker, always thinking “how can we”

**Equal Opportunities**:
Here at Featurespace we are committed to being a place of equality, inclusion and respect to provide a safe environment for you to bring your authentic self to work. We know that we gain as much strength from our differences as we do our similarities. We value diversity and are dedicated to listening and learning from each other to build and maintain a positive and productive culture. We appreciate this will be an ever-evolving focus for the business to ensure everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging.
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