Overview
Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role within an Agile Scrum Team, managing and refining the Product Backlog to deliver high-value solutions. You'll shape the product vision, build roadmaps, and ensure alignment with business objectives, working closely with stakeholders across the organisation. This is a dynamic and strategic role that blends product management, stakeholder engagement, and agile delivery. You will lead the discovery, design, and delivery of transformative AI products that align with business goals, enhance user experiences, and support our mission to drive business value. The ideal candidate will excel in navigating complex environments, leverage framework-driven approaches to mitigate risks, and adopt an experimental mindset to drive continuous improvement.
Typical duties include (not limited to):
* Develop and manage the Product Roadmap and Backlog aligned with business goals.
* Conduct market/user research and horizon scanning to identify opportunities.
* Own product data and ensure compliance with Data Governance standards.
* Collaborate on portfolio strategy and manage dependencies.
* Track benefits and ROI through effective prioritisation.
* Work with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and Solution Architects to plan and deliver features.
* Ensure operational readiness and manage change impacts.
* Monitor product performance and resolve incidents.
Qualifications
* Desirable Skills & Experience: Understanding of Gen AI, LLMs, and prompt engineering fundamentals.
* Lean or Six Sigma accreditation (highly regarded with or without prior AI Product experience).
* Experience writing AI-specific user stories, managing AI experiments, and tracking prompt/system performance.
* Experience with Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
* Background in process streamlining or improvement initiatives.
* Proven ability to drive product vision, strategy, and backlog prioritisation.
* Strong experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and sprint-based delivery.
* Understanding of software development, API integrations, and third-party platforms.
* Experience in Financial Services, particularly mortgages and loans (desirable, but not essential).
* Proficiency in tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, Miro, Trello, Power BI, and MS 365 Suite.
* Certified Product Owner accreditation or working towards it.
About Us
We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 800 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book.
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