Product Owner

**Application Deadline**
- Ongoing**Department**
- Platform Engineering**Employment Type**
- Permanent**Location**
- Newcastle upon Tyne (or Remote UK)**Reporting To**
- Lead Product**Product Owners at Bede are responsible for maximising the value delivered by the engineering teams and ensuring that the Team and Tribe backlogs accurately represent the business strategy and stakeholder needs.**

As a Product Owner, you will be embedded into an Engineering Tribe working alongside other product owners and collaborating with product managers. We expect our Product Owners to establish an expert-level understanding of their Tribe’s product area and take full responsibility for delivering and driving incremental improvements by having an in-depth understanding of customer and end-user needs.

The Product Owner will collaborate with product management and engineering teams, representing the stakeholder within the Tribe’s engineering teams. They will be accountable for the Tribe Backlogs - owning the priority, content and quality of Epics and Stories.

Additionally, the Product Owners will be accountable for inspecting and accepting the feature increments at the end of every sprint and getting feedback from stakeholders.

At Bede, people come first. Our working environment, culture, development opportunities, benefits and forward-thinking ambition attract and retain the best quality talent. We offer opportunities for experts already in the industry or those looking to start their career, and we have exciting projects ahead of us to ensure we are (and continue to be) the best place to work for all of our Beder’s.

**What We Can Offer You**

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Here at Bede, we offer a great benefits package and a competitive salary as you would expect from a forward-thinking and people-centric organisation. What sets us apart is our desire to look after our people in the best way we can and to ensure we are offering the best to our colleagues by asking for feedback, so you’ll be pleased to know our benefits package is always being reviewed.
- A friendly, flexible and trust-based approach to working
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and a typically very generous Christmas break
- The use of a mobile phone or tablet of your choice, with the monthly contract covered by us
- ‘Select Enhanced’ Bupa private healthcare - access from day 1 which covers all pre-existing conditions
- Fully matched private pension scheme (up to 8% matched)
- Life Assurance which pays out x4 of your salary to a nominated person(s)
- Employee Assistance Programme - Beders have access to support and practical advice on a variety of issues that might impact their life (provided by Bupa)
- Innovation time - Engineers have regular opportunities to spend time developing skills and innovating.
- A great office life Free snacks and refreshments in the office every day as well as regular food van visits from the best places in Newcastle
- Access to Calm - the #1 app for meditation and sleep
- Lots of social events - inside and outside of the working day
- Referral Programme - help us grow our team with talented individuals and be rewarded with a referral payment of £3,000 (pre-tax)
- Bede swag - from Zoodies to t-shirts and even our much loved Bede socks
- Bede Holidays - extra discretionary days off through the year as an extra special thank you

**What you'll be doing**:
**Vision**
- Own, maintain and curate the Tribe and Team backlogs based on the strategic direction set by the Tribe Leadership
- Contribute towards the Bede Product Roadmap for respective product areas

**Execution**
- Play a key part for the tribe throughout the Bede Software Development Life Cycle
- Work closely with Product Managers to understand customer needs and business strategy
- Connect with stakeholders to identify, understand and capture problem statements and objectives
- Represent the voice of the stakeholder (client or Bede Sponsor)
- Turn high-level objectives/requirements into well-understood detailed product requirements in the form of user stories with acceptance criteria and follow these throughout the execution
- Take full accountability for product quality and feature sign-off at the end of each sprint
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to produce sprint reports and to project delivery dates (for small to mid-scale projects, large-scale projects will have a dedicated Project Manager)
- Support defect triage for both internal defects, as well as external raised defects.

**Product knowledge**
- Take full accountability for the product area documentation and own the strategy for filling the gaps
- Create and contribute to platform release notes
- Write and maintain feature documentation
- Collaborate with product managers and share product knowledge

**Attitude**
- Collaborate closely with software engineers to deliver product increments
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Tribe Leadership to deliver a compelling product strategy in line with