Product Owner

Product Owner - Glasgow

**Reporting of the role**:
This role reports to Director of Product, Global Player

**Overview of job**:
This role presents a fantastic opportunity for a visionary, dynamic, data-driven product owner to develop our portfolio of Global Player features.

Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web, on TV, in car and on smart speakers.

You’ll work with your own cross-functional squad to deliver new features and functionality to support the business in achieving its ambitious goals.

**3 best things about the job**
- You’ll work across a wide variety of products and features. You will never be bored
- You’ll drive strategy for products that are used and loved by millions of people
- You’ll innovate on some of the latest technologies like in-car and smart speakers

**Measures of success -**

**In the first few months, you would have**:

- Taken ownership of, and aligned, your team’s OKRs ensuring delivery against them
- Established a roadmap for the upcoming quarters
- Released features across iOS, Android and web products
- Worked closely with partners across the business to understand priorities and provide updates

**Responsibilities of the role**:
The Product Owner will be responsible for the following areas across our digital products:
**Strategic**
- Develop product strategy for consumer-facing products
- Own the product roadmap and communicate priorities based on business requirements
- Establish success metrics, OKRs and go-to-market plan
- Share your deep knowledge of media industry and competitive set across business
- Communicate the business case behind features / functionality
- Conduct gap analysis and competitive reviews where appropriate
- Own product launches

**Delivery**
- Work closely with the delivery team to define and refine the product offering
- Own the product requirements within sprint and communicate the vision clearly to the team
- Own the product backlog and prioritisation and ensure the business needs are satisfied

**Day-to-Day**
- An integral part of the Agile process - run sprint planning, presenting the product goal and a potential sprint goal, attend retrospective meetings and write user
- Work with development and design teams to estimate, implement and build features
- Write clear requirements' documentation by providing detailed and cogent acceptance criteria for development teams
- Work hand in hand with developers to ensure requirements are being translated into high-quality, working products
- Ensure that all releases are thoroughly tested and delivered to the highest quality
- Work closely with the Project Management, release and technical teams to ensure that all new products are delivered on time and on budget and in line with market demands.
- Provide regular reports and updates to the business to show performance against OKRs.
- Work closely with commercial teams to ensure that products are monetised effectively and in line with strategic goals
- Be the voice of the user by sharing customer feedback to internal teams
- Work closely with analytics team to interpret data in order to improve products
- Monitor the quality of our apps on a day-to-day basis
- Adhere to industry best practices

**What you will need**:

- Experience with working in SCRUM/Agile environment
- Experience with Product & Technology Roadmap development through influence of key business and technology partners to identify business priorities
- Ability to think strategically and implement methodically while having lots of fun doing it.
- Comfortable working at pace and manage competing and changing priorities.

**Everyone is welcome at Global**:
Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global