Product Owner

Here at Truespeed, we like to do things differently. From the ultrafast broadband we provide, how we interact with our customers, our team focused mentality and the work we produce, everything is done to the very best of our ability.

We’re a multi award-winning company that’s growing fast and constantly evolving. We need innovative and passionate people who’ll make a real difference to the business and our customers - and that’s where you come in. Your talent and skills will play a key role in Truespeed, and will help shape our future by bringing the South West the best broadband and customer service around.

**You’ll be responsible for**:

- Collaborating with business analysts and wider business teams to produce a set of defined product outcomes to deliver. Outcomes will be both technical (to be delivered by your software development squad) and business.
- Owning and managing the backlog of a software development squad, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality.
- Delivering business change, supporting business owners to ensure that all product outcomes, both technical and business, are delivered.
- Hosting and facilitating scrum ceremonies for your squad. Participating in broader planning and review ceremonies e.g. big room planning.
- Working with stakeholders to prioritise your backlog and sprint plans against business objectives.
- Collaborate with business analysts, architects and other stakeholders to deliver transformation outcomes.
- Develop scope and define backlog items (features/user stories) for your software development squad.
- Creating, maintaining and clearly communicating your backlog, ensuring updates are made on time and to standard in relevant reporting tools e.g. Jira.
- Ensuring your squad’s work is transparent, visible and well understood.
- Early identification and communication of blockers, bottlenecks and risks.
- Tracking progress and communicate status to management and project stakeholders.
- Proactively managing underperformance of any squad members with the relevant managers within the software development team.
- Support the wider function by contributing to best practices, processes and principles to ensure success and improvement of the team

**Skills & Experience**:
**Required skills**:

- Experience as a Product Owner in an agile (scrum) environment, demonstrating capability both in technical and business change.
- Proven strong cross-team and cross-organisation stakeholder management.
- Experience with digital transformation projects.
- Experience working as a software developer or a business analyst.
- Ability to influence, motivate, and align people across a broad variety of job functions through your relationships.
- Experience using Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong organisational & time management skills.
- Self-starter with a growth mindset.

**Preferred skills**
- Telecoms experience.
- Scrum / Agile certification.
- Project management experience or certification.

**What we offer**:

- A chance to join a fast paced, industry disruptor that’s doing things differently
- Flexible working
- Competitive salary
- Great benefits like life insurance, health care options, pension
- Great working environment
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Free onsite parking

We’re an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for our whole team.
- Location
- Bath
- Department
- Technical
- Job Title
- Product Owner
- Salary
- £40,000 to £60,000 DOE
- City
- Bath
- Country
- United Kingdom