Product Owner
Junior level position
Start: ASAP
Location: Manchester (This role can be remote or hybrid)
Salary: Competitive plus benefits
Ideal skills: A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a business related field with 1+ years post graduate experience, ideally within a technology related field. Understanding of product management principles and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
Who we are:
Founded in 2003, Mobysoft provides data based insight solutions to a wide range of social housing clients, supplying technology to help landlords to improve their income collection processes for the good of all involved. Mobysoft delivers two market leading products, which help keep tenants housed in a home they can enjoy and simultaneously improves rent collection for the long term good of the organisation.
Our vision is working towards a world in which intelligent technology significantly improves the quality of life for people who live in social housing and our mission is delivering accurate actionable data insights that help social housing providers to deliver a more consistent and equitable service
What are we looking for?
As a Junior Product Owner you will work closely with cross functional teams, including software engineering, design, sales, and customer success, helping deliver and feeding into the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our core platforms. Your role will involve understanding market trends, gathering customer requirements, and ensuring the successful delivery of high quality products that address the challenges faced by the social housing sector.
Customer satisfaction, supporting operational and revenue goals, and aligning with Mobysoft's longer term business objectives for growth will be your guiding principles.
Key Responsibilities
* Working within the Product Team feeding into and executing on:
* Existing product strategy and product strategy execution
* Go to market initiatives
* Product backlog maintenance
* Research:
* Partnering with UX in conducting and synthesising user research.
* Defining requirements and acceptance criteria.
* Cross functional Collaboration:
* Building trusted relationships with engineering and UX leads to ensure technical considerations are factored into product and design decisions.
* Balancing product goals and engineering constraint to enable clearly communicated, pragmatic trade offs.
* Coordinating with sales, marketing and customer success teams to ensure successful product launches and customer adoption.
* Act as a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders regarding product related inquiries.
* With stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements.
* Encouraging and promoting a culture of accountability and shared ownership across product and engineering.
Qualifications and skills
* Demonstrable skills and experience exercising critical thinking.
* Understanding of product management principles and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
* Customer, user and market focused; willingness to get out of the office with travel in the UK to client sites
* Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
* A strong collaborator with experience leading cross functional teams
* Demonstrates passion and enthusiasm for all things product and crucially, delivering success.
* Preferably:
* A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Maths or a business related field with 1+ years post graduate experience, ideally within a technology related field
* Or, equivalent experience.
The Person
You are someone who:
* Takes ownership and thrives on improving how things are done
* Is proactive, self motivated, and solutions focused
* Can work well on their own as well as part of a team
* Is action orientated and focused on getting the job done
* Is excited to help scale a values led SaaS company making a real difference
MobyIdeals
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You will behave in accordance with the MobyIdeals:
Customer focused: We drive outcomes that create value for the customer. We continually challenge ourselves on 'what's in it for the customer'. We drive win/win/win solutions.
Collaborative: We operate as one, fostering open communication, diverse contribution, cooperation and trust. We inspire teams towards a common goal for success.
Outcome orientated; We are driven by the end goal, rather than the process or steps to get there.
Accountable: We own decisions, are transparent, set clear expectations and consistently deliver on commitments
Courageous: We actively contribute and constructively challenge with positive intent. We think big and move at pace.
Innovative: We own and proactively search for solutions. We positively embrace problems and lead change.
Benefits
Competitive salary and rewards package including: Private Health care, 4 x salary Life cover, 25 days annual leave, increasing to 28 after 3 year's service,salary sacrifice pension scheme and much more ..
Inclusion
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process please contact us to request accommodation.
If you are interested and would like to know more then please apply to
and send me your CV ASAP. Please note that we are not working with any external Agencies for this position.