Job Title: Senior Technical Product Owner
Salary: £, - £,
Location: Cambridge/ Hybrid with - days a week in the office
Contract: Permanent
As a Senior Technical Product Owner, you will bring stakeholders and technology closer together, leading to more valuable outcomes from product development. Leverage your deep commitment to agile principles to cut through complexity and identify true value, while communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
Each product has different needs, but our day can typically involve the following:
1. Collaborating with product management and stakeholders on the development of product roadmaps
2. Identifying opportunities to add value to the product
3. Requirements gathering
4. Backlog management
5. Working closely with the developers and user experience (UX) teams to define solutions
6. Facilitating team ceremonies
7. Supporting QA and UAT strategy
8. Supporting incident management
Our team values
9. Make our people awesome
10. Make safety a prerequisite
11. Experiment and learn rapidly
12. Deliver value continuously
13. Have fun at work
About you
14. That you apply the to your work
15. That you are comfortable and effective at leading indirectly through excellent influencing skills
16. That you have a passion for technology, which should be supported by good technical skills or the ability to learn new technologies quickly
17. Great communication skills and the ability to develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of the organisation
18. An understanding of software development methodologies and cultures, specifically agility
19. Strong product skills, particularly where product (what) and delivery (how) intersect
20. Ideally you would have had exposure to some of our business processes and technology, or experience working for an exam board
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
21. days annual leave plus bank holidays
22. Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
23. Discretionary annual bonus
24. Group personal pension scheme
25. Life assurance up to x annual salary
26. Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend -% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being th January with interviews to take place shortly after.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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