About the Role
OUP’s digital products cater to teachers, parents, and learners in both the UK and international educational markets. These products encompass a wide range of digital learning and assessment services.
The Technical Product Owner (TPO) works in close collaboration with divisional Product Management team(s) and is accountable for the implementation of the product roadmap and strategy as defined by the Product Manager(s).
Duties will include:
1. Working in collaboration with a divisional Product Manager and/or Owner to transform product roadmaps into detailed requirements
2. Breaking concepts down from epics to features and user stories, ensuring clarity of well-defined deliverables to meet product and business goals
3. Varying by division and type of product, you will create, owns, manage, and prioritise the product backlog for technical delivery
4. Working closely with delivery teams to plan iterations, provide day-to-day input, ensure that velocity is maintained as well as reviewing and being accountable (jointly with Product Manager/Owner) for acceptance of outputs from teams
5. Where appropriate, with delegated authority from Product Management, the TPO is an empowered decision maker at the delivery team level, often working as the key OUP contact with third party delivery partners
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:
6. Experience of working as a product owner or similar role (e.g. project manager, business analyst, platform manager, product manager)
7. Experience of working with third party suppliers
8. Deep understanding of digital product development and delivery, including customer and market knowledge relevant to the product area
9. High-level technical understanding, including and software development methods and practises (technical coding skills not required)
10. Expert knowledge of methodologies associated with digital product development and delivery, in particular Agile, specifically Scrum, delivery approaches and tooling
11. Strong knowledge of product and development management tools
12. Strong knowledge of user-centred design principles
Desirable:
13. Proficiency in the use of analytical tools
14. Understanding of Data Quality Management concepts
15. Experience of working within a Data Governance Framework
16. Understanding of software architectures
17. Scrum qualifications, experience of SAFe Scrum or Fusion Teams
18. Specific knowledge and skills with JIRA, Confluence, and Aha!
19. Experience in delivering WCAG accessibility guidelines
20. Experience in improving UX
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.