Product Owner
Location: Nottingham
Length: 12 months
Rate: £540.71 per day
Hours: 37.50 per week (Hybrid 2 days per week in office)
Job Description:
Our client Consumer Services Marketplace team works on innovative products and capabilities to help people make better financial decisions and get better offers when they need to borrow money. Our Marketplace business has grown at an amazing rate over the past few years and includes some market first initiatives. Recently we've delivered initiatives that help provide affordable options to those who could be most in need too. So it's not all about the corporate machine We're looking for a great product owner to join us and help continue and accelerate our growth ambitions even further.
The role will involve working as part of a cross functional team including product, design, software engineering, quality assurance and commercial. The role has a focus on the delivery stage of the product lifecycle working with product managers who have more of a focus on the strategic and discovery stage. Maintaining, nurturing and improving our product experience is a critical part of our business and our product owners are a key part of this. It's a hybrid role with a requirement to come into our Nottingham office up to 2 days a week.
What you'll do:
· You'll have ownership and focus of a team backlog, working closely with our engineering team to plan and deliver features aligned to the product vision and strategy
· Working with a team to plan increments of work with stretching shared objectives and key results
· Leading refinement of new work to create solutions to customer problems that deliver business value as well as lender and cross system integrations
· Working closely with product managers and product designers to create great user experience
· Championing continued incremental improvement to our product and tech platform
· Ensuring features meet acceptance criteria, achieve the desired outcome and are ready for release
· Triage and management of inevitable bugs and issues that come with software development
· Managing and reporting product releases
Qualifications:
· A technical mindset or background that gives strengths in data driven development and API integrations with internal and external partners
· Ideally experience in development of a direct to consumer product as a product owner or similar role like Business/Systems Analyst where you've helped create and refine ideas and concepts through to delivery with development teams rather than just delivery of a well defined feature list
· To like working in a team and have a positive and collaborative get things done attitude
· A good mind for unpicking problems and making team backlog level priority calls
· Experience or very good theoretical understanding of agile delivery/development methodologies
· Experience or very good theoretical understanding of set up running and tracking of A/B testing and feature exp
Skills:
· Product development of both web and mobile app experiences
· Product development in a regulated business (financial services would be ideal)