Lead Product Owner
Salary: £60,000-£65,000
Location: Lincoln / Hybrid
Our client is undergoing a digital transformation and requires a strategic Lead Product Owner to oversee product delivery across their digital estate.
This role offers the opportunity to guide a team, shape priorities, and deliver services that make a measurable difference.
About the Role:
As Lead Product Owner, you will manage a portfolio of digital products and develop a small team of Product Owners.
You will work within Agile Product Teams alongside Solution Architects, delivery partners, and service leads.
You will influence quarterly strategic planning and prioritisation decisions, ensuring digital change aligns with organisational goals.
This hands-on leadership role involves managing product backlogs, driving roadmap alignment, and fostering continuous learning and innovation.
What You'll Be Doing:
Leading and mentoring Product Owners across multiple delivery teams
Owning the product strategy and backlog for complex, high-impact products
Participating in programme increment (PI) planning and agile ceremonies
Representing product priorities in strategic planning
Translating business needs into user stories and prioritised workstreams
Managing stakeholder expectations and business engagement
Coordinating supplier delivery and holding partners to account
Embedding agile methodologies, including SAFe, Scrum, and Lean practices
Driving value through continuous product optimisation
Promoting adoption of Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, and ArcGIS
About You:
Proven experience leading product teams and agile delivery in a digital environment
Strong stakeholder engagement and business-facing communication skills
Experience managing supplier delivery and holding external partners to account
Strategic mindset with the ability to influence investment decisions
Confidence managing high-volume backlogs across multiple products
Understanding of digital governance frameworks such as GDAD
Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, and geospatial tools like ArcGIS is a plus
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