Location: Manchester City Centre
Job Type: Full-time (Hybrid working)
Basic Salary: up to 70K pa
About Us:
Evolution Money is a Certified B Corp with a social purpose. At Evolution Money, our mission is to redefine financial inclusion by providing bespoke lending solutions to UK homeowners. We are committed to empowering individuals and fostering long-term financial well-being. Through innovative and purpose-driven approaches, we aim to challenge traditional norms and create a pathway for those who might be overlooked by conventional financial institutions.
The Role:
We're seeking an experienced Product Owner to join our Projects Team. You'll be responsible for some of the key business products. You'll oversee the development of your products from start to finish, ensuring they meet the business needs and preferences. You'll be the primary contact between business stakeholders and development teams and will drive forward the development of your products using agile methodologies.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with users and stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.
- Defining the vision for your products and maintaining a cohesive vision.
- Creating a product road map based on this vision.
- Manage the product backlog and continuously prioritise backlog items due to changing requirements.
- Oversee all stages of product creation, including design and development.
- Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the development process.
- Working with the product team, end-users and stakeholders to deliver updates and status reports, and gain feedback.
- Leading and participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints, acting as voice of the business throughout the SDLC.
- Developing and documenting user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Lead design workshops to solutionise business requirements.
- Clearly define product requirements and work closely with UI/UX team to ensure the product UI/UX is aligned to the product goals.
- Understand product domains and explain complex issues in clear terms to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Lead the UAT process, manage feedback from the business customers/users until the feature is confirmed to meet the acceptance criteria.
- Write thorough UAT scripts to validate product features against business/customer requirements.
- Manage expectations of senior management, demonstrating product progress and incremental features on a regular basis.
- Support the implementation of the product and it's features for clients and business users.
- Effectively communicate the value/ benefit of new product features to business users and clients.
- Oversee the delivery of new product features and ensure any feedback is considered, reviewed and a decision made on whether it should be added to the product backlog.
- Researching competition and products in the marketplace.
- Support senior management in evaluating existing products and forming strategies to select/develop new or update existing products.
- To undertake other duties of an appropriate nature in consultation with line manager.
Qualifications (minimum):
- Previously lead and managed the implementation of an online customer application and members area from inception to delivery.
- 3+ years' experience in a previous Product Owner role or taking a leading role in software development projects, including an integrated customer communication platform.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to talk to and present to a range of audiences, sometimes acting as a translator between technical and non-technical parties.
- Experience working with agile methodologies.
- Excellent analytical skills and an informed, evidence based approach.
- The ability to work under pressure on multiple projects/ products within your project timeframes.
- The ability to motivate others and lead change.
- Excellent at documenting requirement specifications/ development sprint tickets and producing timelines and supporting documentation to senior business leaders.
- Leading daily standups, 3 Amigo sessions and Scrums
Desirable
- Certified Product Owner certification.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Financial (Mortgage/Loans) sector experience.
- Qualified Scrum Master
- Experience using tools such as JIRA, DEVOPS, Bizagi/MS Visio, SLACK, and Google Apps.
- Experience using tools such as Balsamiq, Figma, Miro to draft UX/UI and mock ups .
- Educated to degree level (high grade)
Here's what you'll get back:
- Up to 25 days' annual leave + Bank Holidays
- Your birthday off, every year!
- A healthcare cash plan
- A contributory pensions scheme, matched up to 5%
- Long Service Awards
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life Assurance
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to create a working environment where every employee is respected.
We will provide fairness, and respect to all our prospective employees, and all hiring decisions are based on merit.
We aim to ensure that no job applicant is placed at a disadvantage by practices or requirements which disproportionately disadvantage protected groups, and which are not justified by the demands of the role.
Evolution Money is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We offer interview to anyone with disability who meets the minimum criteria for the role.
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