Product Owner

**Opportunity**:
We have a great opportunity for a Product Owner to join our fantastic Power software development team based in Cambridge.

**GMSL**:
GMSL is the market-leading provider of 24/7 energy portfolio management services and software in Europe and plays a vital role in the energy business. We have unparalleled expertise in the industry, built up over 25 years of operating in energy markets throughout Europe.

**Product Owner role**:
Product owners at GMSL understand our customers’ needs and help ensure the team are solving the right problems to deliver value to our users. They work alongside developers and testers in collaborative, empowered, cross-functional teams, and are involved in the full product development lifecycle. They serve as the voice of the customer to help the team understand the vision of the product and the value it provides.

Our power software products solve problems for companies active in the wholesale power markets. This includes our own in-house operations team, who use our software to provide services to their clients. Our product owners liaise closely with our in-house users, as well as external customers and power market operators, to understand the needs of their product.

**Responsibilities**:
Once your product and business knowledge has been established, the role will expand as appropriate to include the following responsibilities:

- Understanding requirements - from customers, our own users and energy market operators
- Communicating requirements and detailed market knowledge to the rest of the team
- Evaluating priorities for new requirements
- Demoing software to prospective customers
- Collaborating with developers to design new features
- Working with testers to evaluate new features
- Supporting our own users and external users

**Salary**:
Salary will be reflective of your level of experience.
- Location Cambridge - Hybrid (2-3 days a week in office)
- Job type Permanent
- Hours Mon-Fri, 37.5 hours per week

**Benefits**:
Our benefits include:

- Annual bonus scheme
- Company pension scheme (6% employer contribution)
- 25 days’ holiday
- Private health care
- Flexible working hours and remote working
- Casual dress and a relaxed environment
- Employee assistance program
- Loyal service award
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Fresh fruit and great coffee
- Free access to Cambridge University Botanic Gardens
- Monthly team pub lunches

**Your experience**:
We are looking for someone who EITHER has experience of being a Product Owner:

- Has 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role
- Has fundamental understanding of agile and other software development processes
- Has demonstrated an ability to increase the effectiveness of their team

OR has experience and knowledge of the power markets:

- Has 3+ years’ experience in a role requiring a detailed understanding of power markets

We are also looking for someone who:

- Has an ability to discover the detail
- Is a good communicator, both written and face-to-face
- Has excellent stakeholder management skills
- Is comfortable dealing with multiple tasks and priorities
- Enjoys collaborating with others
- Is happy to take the initiative

All our teams spend at least one day a week in the office and this role requires 2-3 days a week in office, so you need to be based within easy travel to Cambridge.

**Working at GMSL**:
We are a small team. We have around 30 people in our software team, so even though we are a part of a company of around 100 people overall, the software team has retained a small team “startup” feel. Your colleagues will be from a wide variety of backgrounds - we encourage diversity, openness and gender equality.

We value the long-term. The success and stability that comes from 25+ years’ experience in software development means we value the long-term in terms of software development and the development of our people.

We empower teams and individuals. Teams are empowered to own their products. Individuals are empowered to make meaningful contributions at every level.

We are agile. We develop using an agile approach, which focuses on our ability to respond to change. We broadly follow XP practices, but we take a pretty pragmatic view about this. We adapt our processes to support the context, rather than follow a standard rigid process for all situations. We trust the teams who do the work to decide how best to do it.

We strive to make GMSL a great place to work. The management team are friendly, approachable and care personally about the people on their team. Managers consider the people on their team as the first priority and take our people’s personal situations into account in decision-making wherever they can.

We are flexible. Our teams typically work at least one day a week in our office in Cambridge, and the rest of the time working from home. We also have a day a month where the whole software department come in and we all go to the pub for lunch. Hours are flexibl