Senior Product Owner
Salary: Up to £67,200
Location: Cardiff (flexible working)
The Opportunity
Yolk Recruitment are excited to be partnered with one of Wales' biggest non-profit organisations who service more than 3 million customers whilst contributing more than £840 million to protect the environment.
This role would be ideal for Senior Product Owner who has experience managing product development roadmaps across various functional areas, defining product features, and ensuring they align with our overarching strategic objectives.
What the Senior Product Owner will be doing
Product Strategy: Develop product strategies aligned with the company's vision, mission, and goals. Communicate the product vision, objectives, capabilities, features, and key results.
Product Planning
Product Backlog Management: Manage the product backlog by defining user stories in Azure DevOps. Work with Solution Architects and Technical Delivery Leads to prioritize stories based on business value, feasibility, and logical sequencing. Define and ensure acceptance criteria are met.
Technical Delivery Collaboration: Collaborate with Technical Delivery Leads, Solution Architects, Lead Developers, and Test Leads to:
- Agree on implementation approaches during design sessions.
- Regularly update and manage the product backlog through sprint cycles.
- Consider all business-impacting dependencies during release planning.
Stakeholder Management: Engage with business and ITS stakeholders, executives, and external partners to:
- Explain product and feature prioritization rationale.
- Educate on Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and agile delivery principles.
- Ensure delivered products meet expectations and provide business value.
- Promote approved design principles and challenge excessive customization requests.
What you will bring to the team
- Degree or chartered status in a technology related discipline
- Experience as a senior business analyst, product owner, product manager or equivalent.
- Experience leading product development activities in an Agile environment and developing and managing requirements and product backlogs.
- Working with cross-functional delivery teams and business stakeholders, managing and leading through influence, not authority
- Working with and resolving complex and conflicting business priorities
- SCRUM Certified Product Owner / Agile Certified Product Manager (or equivalent)
Here's What You'll Get in Return
The successful Senior Product Owner will be rewarded with;
- Salary of up to £67,200
- Up to 10% annual bonus (on average around 6-7%)
- Salary increases in line with inflation
- 11% Pension
- Fully funded training opportunities
- Flexible working arrangements
Think this one's for you?
If you think this Senior Product Owner opportunity is for you then apply online.
Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.
Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.