Senior Product Owner

As a Product Owner, you'll be the beating heart of agile delivery teams, translating user needs and business objectives into products that work. You'll own the product backlog, shape priorities, and work hand-in-hand with delivery managers, user researchers, developers, testers, and technical architects to ensure every sprint delivers real value. 

This isn't a role where you'll sit on the sidelines writing tickets. You'll be embedded in client organisations—understanding their challenges from the inside, advocating for users, and making the tough calls about what to build and when. You'll challenge assumptions, facilitate difficult conversations, and help teams navigate ambiguity with confidence. 

Our clients span both public and private sectors, from government departments transforming citizen services to enterprises modernising legacy platforms. You'll bring adaptability and intellectual curiosity—thriving in environments where the brief isn't always clear and the path forward needs to be discovered together. 

• You will participate in the daily scrums, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews and retrospectives. You will ensure the next sprint is ready to commence. You will inspect the product’s progress at the end of every sprint and have complete authority to accept or reject work done.
• You will work with Product Management to evolve the Product Backlog through the full cycle including definition, implementation, and release.
• You will have the ability to connect with all stakeholders, across multiple locations, to create and fully form product features. 
• You will initiate and translate Product Road Map into manageable Product Backlog for Scrum teams.
• Liaise with the Software Architects to understand the features and changes in product requirements and support the release planning and sprint planning exercises.
• Work with the Scrum Master and Development Team to establish a maintainable velocity, ensure quality, eliminate defects, and motivate team.
• Connect with the internal clients in the definition and creation of Product features.
• Distil inputs from a variety of users and stakeholders to create a complete picture of the market problems to be solved by the proposed software. 
• Challenge stakeholders to ensure that an understanding is achieved that is coherent, complete, credible, sufficiently concrete to facilitate the development of software, and that the principles underlying the product are identified and described. 
• Define software capabilities to meet the understood requirements including usability, utilising artefacts that provide engineering with sufficient guidance to ensure progress. Expert knowledge of the existing capabilities of the software and planning for its future evolution must inform this. 
• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure that the solutions are ready for release.
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to both Development Teams and Stakeholders (including senior managers) at all stages of the development lifecycle.