About the Role
As our new Senior Business Product Owner, you will focus on turning product vision and long‑term roadmaps into clear, deliverable work such as epics, features, and user stories. You will manage and prioritise product backlogs, plan iterations, and coordinate delivery with internal teams and third‑party suppliers to ensure digital product improvements meet business and user needs. The role involves providing product expertise to enhance customer experience, support technical efficiency, and guide colleagues across Digital Product.
You will contribute to product strategy, maintain release plans, and help assign business value to features to support effective prioritisation. Representing user needs is central to the role, ensuring requirements are well understood and translated into detailed user stories with clear acceptance criteria. You will review completed work against agreed standards, provide clarification throughout delivery, and support capability building by mentoring team members and recommending development pathways aligned with best practice.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
1. Proven success in a product owner role or a digital delivery role (product manager, business analyst, platform manager etc.), working with development teams.
2. Ideally knowledge of education publishing market.
3. Experience of working with Agile methodologies and tools.
4. Resourceful with the ability to identify and agree solutions.
5. Reasonable level of technical understanding, including software architectures, standards, development methods and practises.
6. Experience of planning and delivering continuous change and improvement in a digital product environment, including maintaining release plans.
7. Knowledge of how to define, test, and refine user journeys.
8. Communication, networking and influencing within a matrix structure: in particular to find a consensus and a way forward which balances needs.
9. Demonstrable understanding of platform data and usage analytics.
10. Line management experience is desirable.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
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