About the Role
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We're looking for an experienced Lead Product Owner to play a pivotal role in driving product delivery across multiple squads. In this role, you'll not only own the execution of the product roadmap for key areas of our platform, but also lead and mentor a team of Product Owners – clearing roadblocks, keeping an eye on metrics and leading from the front to help them deliver to the highest standards.
Our Product Owners form the tactical side of the Product Team, focusing on how we design & deliver solutions that best align with the opportunities identified by the strategic side, our Product Managers. You will drive this team to further success, helping manage dependencies and promote collaboration across squads, ensuring on-time, high quality delivery.
Reporting to our VP, Product and sitting within the Product Leadership team, you will be a critical bridge between the strategic and the tactical, fostering close relationships between Product, Engineering and wider business teams and stakeholders. You will champion product excellence across the organisation through frameworks, processes and tools that elevate team performance and smooth the path to market for new features and products.
Qualifications Requirements
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
1. Product Ownership: own an area of the product suite – breaking high-level requirements down into detailed user stories, assessing feasibility and value, developing realistic delivery plans and ultimately overseeing projects through development to go-to-market preparation and launch.
2. Product Leadership : coach, mentor, and develop a team of Product Owners, supporting their growth and ensuring alignment across squads. Act as the voice of your team within the Product Leadership group, maintaining close working relationships with Product Management.
3. Product Operations: maintaining product operations best practice while supporting our VP, Product with delivery reporting, success tracking and rolling out improved processes to your team.
4. Cross-team Coordination: help POs and engineering teams tomanage dependencies across squads, ensuring smooth collaboration and timely delivery. Develop great working relationships with stakeholders across the business.
5. Client-centric Mindset: act as an advocate for the client, internal stakeholders and business partners as it relates to product issues and improvements
Essential Criteria:
6. 5+ years experience working as a Lead Product Owner, Senior Product Owner, or Product Manager in a B2B SaaS environment.
7. Experience managing and mentoring other Product Owners or cross-functional product teams.
8. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
9. Proven stakeholder management skills
10. Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
11. A collaborative mindset with a passion for enabling others to succeed.
Desirable Criteria:
12. Recruitment marketing technology experience
13. Experience with UX/UI design tools and prototyping
BENEFITS:
14. 25 days holiday, increasing by one additional day for each completed year.
15. Competitive compensation
16. Great benefits package, including Pension, Private Healthcare & Utilities Allowance
17. Learning & growth programs
18. Open, collaborative culture
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