Has accountability for the performance and results of a team within own discipline or function
Is recognised as an expert in own area within the organisation and has specialised depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline or function
Interprets internal or external issues and recommends solutions/best practices
Job Description
Brief Job Summary
The Product Owner works closely with the Product Manager to understand and deliver the strategic roadmap for the product. They will work with the development team and supporting roles to break that roadmap down into prioritised requirements. Working with support from the Product Manager they will ensure that the development team has a clear understanding of the product/platform vision and goals. They oversee product build progress, answering queries and helping solve impediments to the delivery. The role is part of our squad structure and can be aligned to any product or platform in RS or Common Services.
Roles and Responsibilities
Support the Product Manager with the creation and update of a centrally mastered Product Roadmap.
Ensure the Product Roadmap is reflected correctly in our work management tooling (JIRA or ADO).
Creation of features and user stories with support from other roles in the form of a healthy prioritised backlog.
Definition of sprint goals to help focus the teams during their increment.
Formal acceptance of work as done and ready for release.
Support cross team dependency management.
Input to both product and build reporting as required including financial reporting and budgeting.
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Use data to recommend to the Product Manager best solutions and approaches.
Creation of technical user stories where required and ability to prioritise these.
Plays an active role in agile and scaled agile events, supporting agile values and helping promote the continual improvement cycle through inspect & adapt.
Contribute to the product vision, goals, success measures and roadmap for the product.
Applies some domain knowledge or demonstrates ability to quickly learn about the product(s), market and customer base.
Understand what KPIs are most valuable to the business ensuring these are reflected in the product delivery.
Support the Product Manager in Product Discovery through the elaboration of product features from the product roadmap ultimately reaching approval to build based on ROI.
Work with the supporting roles and internal/external stakeholders to further refine approved product features through detailed requirements analysis/design to get work ready for planning & build documented through user stories.
Ensure Non Functional Requirements are being created, maintained and tested against.
Work directly with Info Sec and or DPO on product change that need their approval to ensure the product is compliant
Support the development teams in planning activities at both the quarter and increment level where applicable.
Work with the development team and actively suggest improvements that can be made to how the team work in a collaborative way
Assimilate complex detailed problems and translate them into easily digestible content for cross-functional team members.
Accountable for the prioritisation of user stories through their lifecycle.
Ensure features & user stories remain aligned to the roadmap and strategic objectives set by the Product Manager.
Accountable for the prioritisation of user stories through their lifecycle
Leverage working knowledge of business systems, broader industry requirements, and practical implications of enhancements to support product priorities.
Support the update to stakeholders and other P&E teams on the build progression and forecasted delivery.
Support the update to stakeholders and other P&E teams on the product performance utilising metrics where possible.
Support the defiinition of the product practice. scope.
Play an active role in the product owner practice and help lead on some topics to assist with the upskilling of the wider team.
Job Specifications
Education
Any graduation preferably Business or IT
Relevant Experience
Experience - 10+ years' experience
Experience working within a software or product development organization preferred although not required.
Experience working within a financial organization preferred although not required.
Product Ownership or similar role experience.
Proven experience of interfacing with cross-functional teams.
Functional Skills
Behavioural Skills
Knowledge and skills
Essential:
Business analysis
Writing user stories
Backlog prioritisation
Defining acceptance criteria
User journey & process mapping
Usability testing
Agile ways of working
Agile metrics
Compliance & Governance stewardship
Success metrics & OKRs
JIRA, ADO or similar.
Miro or similar collaboration tools.
Desirable:
User research
User feedback analysis
User behaviour analysis
Product strategy
Agile Metric tools.
Demonstrates high ethical standards and integrity in their actions and decision-making
Is recognised as calm, composed, polite and respectful in all situations and circumstances.
Practices and promotes openness and transparency.
Regularly self reflects and supports others within their squad to do the same.
Will be positive and enthusiastic, even in difficult circumstances.
Will be self-motivating and maintain a solution-focused attitude.
Will promote optimism and motivate others within their squad.
Celebrates the success of others.
Openly praises other members of their squad and publicly recognises success.
Champions their squad to others.
Accepts feedback easily without confrontation and responds to it, acknowledging the perspective of others.
Highlights any impediments or risks constructively.
Provides positive and constructive opinions in conversations.
Helps to avoid conflict within their squad and other squads by spotting contentious matters and dealing with them.
Role Grading
Role Grading Information
Job function knowledge
Measures the function-specific technical knowledge required to perform specific tasks associated with the job.
Please explain technical knowledge required to perform specific tasks associated with the job
Maintains an extensive understanding of emerging practices and their application and takes responsibility for driving own and team members’ development opportunities and new ways of working.
Shows determination to learn and showcase new function-specific technical skills, and pass on knowledge.
Business Expertise
Measures the extent of required knowledge beyond the job. It refers to both internal and external business expertise.
Please explain the extent of required knowledge beyond the job
Fully understands the departmental domain, strategies, practices and processes
Quickly understands new information and applies if effectively.
Drives opportunities for others to learn from their expertise and experience.
Seeks opportunities to transfer any unique knowledge they may possess to others.
Fully understands who the wider customers or stakeholders are and shares with others.
Has good awareness of the commercial and business background of their work.
Drives discussions on the expectations of the business on them as individuals and their team.
Fully understands the requirements of the end customer.
Seeks feedback on the wider customer experience.
Leadership
Refers to the people management required for the job.
Does the job require any people management (if so please give details)?
leads and supports their team.
Problem-solving
Measures the degree of mental and analytical skills required to perform the job.
Please explain the degree of mental and analytical skills required to
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