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Posted: Feb 6, 2025
Job ID: R0043512
Location: London, Middlesex, Hybrid
Hours/week: 37.5 hrs/week
We believe in better. And we make it happen.
Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate.
The Product Owner is responsible for leading and managing the successful delivery of our product capabilities. This includes implementing the product roadmap, coordinating resources, tracking progress, ensuring quality control, and providing regular updates to stakeholders. The Product Owner will also be responsible for identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of features on time and within budget.
What you’ll do
1. Communicating the Product Vision: Support the development of the Product Vision, led by the Product Managers, and explicitly communicate the Product Vision to your teams, ensuring that the context, rationale, and purpose of the product are clear and understood.
2. Agreeing Priorities based on Maximising Value: Collaborate effectively with the Product and Programme Managers and key business stakeholders to agree on priorities, considering product capability and business priorities. Ensure features are prioritised based on their value.
3. Managing the Product Backlog: Be accountable for effective Squad Backlog management, including creating with the squad and clearly communicating Feature and Story prioritisation, ensuring that the Backlog is transparent, visible, and understood.
4. Overseeing the Development Stages: Maintain consistent and well-documented detail, report on and manage risks to ensure plans/boards are kept in line with baseline expectations. Ensure appropriate reviews are in place to build confidence with key stakeholders.
5. Maintain Delivery Momentum for Overall Product Delivery: Work closely with other Sky departments and third-party suppliers to ensure that detailed plans are captured that consider key dependencies.
6. Instil Continuous Improvement as a Behaviour: Take the lead on evaluating whether the product development is fit to progress to the next iteration or whether you need to make adjustments prior to proceeding.
What you'll bring
1. Leadership and ownership of delivering software products with experience gained either as a Product Owner or Project Manager.
2. Solid background of delivery experience from within the Technology industry.
3. Strong demonstrable Agile skills, with solid experience of Scaled Agile / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
4. Collaborative, adaptive team player for this key role to help drive key technological initiatives for Ad Tech.
5. Good relationship builder who can develop key relationships with stakeholders both internally and externally.
6. Experience gained from within the Media or AdTech industry is a definite plus.
Team Overview
Content Technology and Innovation: Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses, and commercial partners across our European markets.
The Rewards
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster:
* Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place.
* The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate.
* Discounted mobile and broadband.
* A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences.
Inclusion & How You'll Work
Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home.
Your Office Space
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station.
We'd Love to Hear from You
Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way.
Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check.
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