Product Owner – Job Overview
This is a mid-level Product Owner role with a strong focus on getting things shipped. You’ll spend most of your time making sure the team is working on the right things at the right time — prioritising work, planning sprints, and keeping delivery moving smoothly across product, design, and engineering.
You’ll be hands-on with defining features and requirements, turning business and customer needs into clear, ready-to-build tickets. While you’ll have some involvement in strategy and research, this role is mainly about execution and delivery.
What you’ll be doing
* Leading sprint planning across design and development (with support from engineering leads)
* Running prioritisation sessions to keep the team focused on the highest-value work
* Owning and maintaining the product backlog — keeping it tidy, prioritised, and up to date
* Writing clear, practical tickets and requirements for development and QA
* Facilitating refinement sessions so work is well understood before it’s picked up
* Doing the analysis needed to shape new features from idea to delivery-ready
* Pulling together input from researchers, analysts, and other stakeholders to create clear requirements
* Joining client-facing meetings and confidently talking through product decisions and progress
Additional things you may get involved in
* Helping shape the product roadmap (inputting and refining rather than owning it end-to-end)
* Writing design briefs to support UX and UI work
* Supporting customer research and usability testing
* Coordinating and assisting with user testing activity
Nice to have
* Experience with tools like Airtable (or similar)
* Background in a start-up or scale-up environment where things aren’t always crystal clear
* Experience with content management systems
* Familiarity with analytics tools like Amplitude or Mixpanel
* Some project management experience
Potentially useful experience
* Webflow
* Line management of designers or research resources
What this role is really about
* Strong ownership of delivery and execution
* Clearly defining features so teams can build with confidence
* Coordinating well across product, design, engineering, and stakeholders
* Supporting product strategy and research — without being the main driver
Location:
You’ll need to be able to work from an Edinburgh-based office at least one day a week.
Salary:
£55,000–£65,000 basic
Working hours:
Flexible, professional hours — typically around 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday
Holiday:
37 days per year, fully flexible (including public holidays)