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This role is for 12-month maternity cover
About Smart Data Foundry
Smart Data Foundry has a purpose to unlock the power of financial data as a force to improve people’s lives.
What we do
We enable the research ecosystem to flourish through the provision of research ready real financial data.
We create data-driven insights based on real financial data, that identify areas to inform policy change and enhance regulation.
Role Purpose
This role is for 12-month maternity cover
The Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritising the product backlog for the Smart Data Foundry (SDF) product portfolio, ensuring that SDF delivery teams deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs and align with business goals. The role works reports into the Product Manager and works closely with Delivery Manager, Data Science Team and Platform (engineering) Team, as well as wider stakeholders across SDF to build on the product strategy and requirements to create detailed user stories and ensure that the product vision is realised.
Key Responsibilities
* User Stories and Acceptance Criteria: Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the delivery teams in delivering valuable features.
* Backlog Management: Create, prioritise, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it reflects the needs and priorities of all stakeholders.
* Product Delivery: Work closely with delivery teams to answer questions, provide clarifications, and make decisions to keep the delivery process moving forward.
* Release Management: Coordinate product releases, ensuring that all aspects of the product are ready for launch and meet expected quality standards.
About you
* Excellent people, customer, and communication skills.
* Self-motivated, adaptable, and flexible.
* Must be entrepreneurial, a problem-solver, and a creative thinker.
* Strong understanding of how to develop an insight led strategy
Knowledge and Experience
* Min 5 years’ experience working in a fast-paced change environment.
* Experience in planning and facilitating workshops with stakeholders and running collaborative design activities.
Skills
* User focus - You understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can gain insights from data and user research and use those insights and findings to make informed decisions. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can put users first and manage competing priorities between the user and business needs.
* User-centred content design - You can show a deep understanding of end-to-end journeys and how content is affected within these journeys. You can identify where journey fixes or content improvements need to be made.
* Agile working - You can demonstrate knowledge of Agile methodology. You can apply an Agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
* Stakeholder relationship management - You can identify, analyse, manage, and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders. You can communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts, while focusing on user needs.
* Strategic thinking - You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events, and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact. You can effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Product Management
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