Product Owner

External Description:
Reach beyond with Liberty IT; for this is where you’ll find the super challenges, where you’ll be given the scope and the support to go further, dig deeper and fly higher.

We won’t stand over your shoulder. We won’t get in your way. We certainly won’t hold you back. You’ll bring the expertise. We’ll provide the platform to succeed.

Ready?

It’s time to do your thing.

**Experience and skills we need**:

- 3 years’ experience in partnering with agile software development teams to create solutions, software, or products with a focus on delivering business value through partnering with customers, stakeholders, or end users.
- Knowledge of a product mindset and in guiding agile software development teams through Design Thinking, Impact Mapping, or alternative product related techniques.
- Have facilitated and conducted product discovery or user research.
- Have conducted backlog grooming, feature prioritisation, UAT, and communicating business value activities.

**Experience and skills**we’d** love**:
We’ve included some further skills and experience that would be great. However, don’t rule yourself out if you haven’t had the opportunity to develop these yet, we have a learning culture at Liberty IT so we will support your career growth with us.
- Industry recognised Product related certifications or qualifications.
- Have worked with software development teams building software products and solutions for large business organisations.

**What**you’ll** be doing**:

- Deliver business value to our customers through successful product delivery in line with the business unit strategic vision and objectives.
- Working with multiple stakeholders, contribute to the development and evolution of the product roadmap that the team will be responsible for delivering. Champion a product mindset with the business and development teams.
- Have a strong understanding of the business unit strategic vision and communicate this with perspective customers. Collaborate with customers to discover their business problems and identify product solutions to meet these needs.
- Working in an agile manner, nurture strong working partnerships with business stakeholders and encourage the team to become closer to the Customer / Stakeholders
- Implement usability and feedback metrics to validate the successful delivery of business value to the customer. Evaluate, communicate and adjust the metrics as required.
- Maintain a user story backlog to enable the delivery team to create MVP solutions to add customer value incrementally and quickly. Communicate and detail user stories through backlog refinement sessions with the team.
- Collaborate with the team on the design and technical approach to the delivery of a prioritized backlog.
- Support the team to remove roadblocks that prevent team delivery of business value.
- Partner and mentor with other team members and people across Liberty IT to grow your career.
- Validate the product solution through exploratory testing on user stories and post implementation validation via user feedback. Demonstrate through validation how the value and vision of the solution are met.

**What’s** on offer**
- Feel safe and secure whatever life brings, with health insurance (including access to a digital doctor), life assurance and income protection.
- Enjoy both today and tomorrow with employee discount schemes, annual bonuses and a competitive pension.
- Protect your wellbeing with flexible working and a real work-life balance. Specifically, we have adopted a hybrid remote and in-office working culture, meaning you have ultimate flexibility in your work environment.
- Grow yourself, your career and reputation through continuous learning, promotion opportunities and our generous recognition programme.

**A little background on LIT**

Liberty IT is the tech wing of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Bringing peace of mind to all aspects of customer’s lives, every day.

We’re an ideas company. Always. We thrive on engineering excellence and surpass with technical mastery. We build beautifully architected cloud solutions and reliably run high stability systems. We work alongside the best in the business and learn from the finest minds.
- Great Place to Work in UK & Ireland 2024
- Best Workplaces for Women (UK) 2024
- Top 5 Best Tech Workplace
- Centre of Excellence in Wellbeing

**Fair employment and equal opportunities**

Liberty IT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to inclusion and diversity.

About Us:
**A little background on LIT**

Liberty IT is the tech wing of Liberty Mutual Insurance. Bringing peace of mind to all aspects of customer’s lives, every day.

We’re an ideas company. Always. We thrive on engineering excellence and surpass with technical mastery. We build beautifully architected cloud solutions and reliably run high stability systems. We work alongside the best in the business and learn from the finest minds.

Great Place to Work in UK & Ireland 2024

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