Product Owner

Smart Data Foundry Limited; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Uma empresa inovadora está buscando um(a) Product Owner para cobertura de maternidade. O candidato irá definir e priorizar o backlog do produto, garantindo que os times de entrega cumpram as necessidades dos clientes. Uma experiência mínima de 5 anos em ambientes de mudanças rápidas é exigida, além de habilidades em gestão de stakeholders e metodologia ágil.

Qualifications

• Min 5 years’ experience working in a fast-paced change environment.
• Exceptional people, customer, and communication skills.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and flexible.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritise the product backlog for the SDF product portfolio.
• Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the delivery teams.
• Coordinate product releases, ensuring quality standards are met.

Skills

User focus

Communication

Agile methodology

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Job description

This range is provided by Smart Data Foundry. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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This role is for 12-month maternity cover

About Smart Data Foundry

Smart Data Foundry has a purpose to unlock the power of financial data as a force to improve people’s lives.

What we do

We enable the research ecosystem to flourish through the provision of research ready real financial data.

We create data-driven insights based on real financial data, that identify areas to inform policy change and enhance regulation.

Role Purpose

This role is for 12-month maternity cover

The Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritising the product backlog for the Smart Data Foundry (SDF) product portfolio, ensuring that SDF delivery teams deliver high-quality products that meet customer needs and align with business goals. The role works reports into the Product Manager and works closely with Delivery Manager, Data Science Team and Platform (engineering) Team, as well as wider stakeholders across SDF to build on the product strategy and requirements to create detailed user stories and ensure that the product vision is realised.

Key Responsibilities

• User Stories and Acceptance Criteria: Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the delivery teams in delivering valuable features.
• Backlog Management: Create, prioritise, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it reflects the needs and priorities of all stakeholders.
• Product Delivery: Work closely with delivery teams to answer questions, provide clarifications, and make decisions to keep the delivery process moving forward.
• Release Management: Coordinate product releases, ensuring that all aspects of the product are ready for launch and meet expected quality standards.

About you

• Excellent people, customer, and communication skills.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and flexible.
• Must be entrepreneurial, a problem-solver, and a creative thinker.
• Strong understanding of how to develop an insight led strategy

Knowledge and Experience

• Min 5 years’ experience working in a fast-paced change environment.
• Experience in planning and facilitating workshops with stakeholders and running collaborative design activities.

Skills

• User focus - You understand users and identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can gain insights from data and user research and use those insights and findings to make informed decisions. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can put users first and manage competing priorities between the user and business needs.
• User-centred content design - You can show a deep understanding of end-to-end journeys and how content is affected within these journeys. You can identify where journey fixes or content improvements need to be made.
• Agile working - You can demonstrate knowledge of Agile methodology. You can apply an Agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
• Stakeholder relationship management - You can identify, analyse, manage, and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders. You can communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts, while focusing on user needs.
• Strategic thinking - You can take an overall perspective on business issues, events, and activities, and discuss their wider implications and long-term impact. You can effectively focus on outcomes rather than solutions and activities.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management

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