Title: Product Owner Department: Technology Location: London or Sheffield UK, for 3 days per week Contract Type: Full time, permanent Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. Role overview: The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring that the product meets the needs of the customer, is delivered on time, and is of high quality. They are the key decision-makers and represent the voice of the customer in the product development process. The Product Owner must have a deep understanding of the customer needs, as well as the technical aspects of the product. Key Responsibilities: As a Product Owner at Tes, you are a decision maker on how product requirements are delivered. You help ensure the vision for the product is understood by the team, and the path to get there. These are the key areas that matter: Customer-focused : Putting the customer first, ensuring products bring the most value as possible, and in this way enabling Tes to thrive. This only comes from knowing customers and the market in depth. Product Vision : Contribute to the product vision and strategy and communicate to the development team and stakeholders. Ensure that the product requirements align with the vision and the company's overall strategy and goals. Requirements Gathering : Work closely with product managers, UX and data experts, stakeholders, and the development team to identify and prioritise product features and requirements. Create and maintain a product backlog that reflects these requirements. Prioritisation : Prioritise the product backlog based on customer value, business value, and technical feasibility. Ensure that the development team has a clear understanding of the priority of each item in the backlog. Sprint Planning : Work with the development team to plan sprints, including defining sprint goals and selecting items from the product backlog to be included in the sprint. Acceptance Criteria : Define acceptance criteria for each item in the product backlog to ensure that the development team understands the expected outcome. Stakeholder Management : Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, including customers, sales teams, and executives. Communicate product updates, changes, and release plans to these stakeholders. Product Demonstrations : Conduct product demonstrations to stakeholders and customers to gather feedback and ensure that the product meets their needs. Product Release : Work with product managers to agree when to release the product and what features should be included in each release. Work with the development team to ensure that the product is delivered on time and of high quality. Product Evangelist : Act as the product expert and evangelist, providing training and support to product owners, teams and external stakeholders to build credibility What will you need to succeed? 3 years of experience in product management or a related field Data and research focused, to help drive decisions and measure success Experience with agile methodologies and product development processes A great communicator and collaborator – to help deliver the vision and motivate the teams, and proactive and collaborative as a team player Ability to make decisions quickly and prioritise tasks effectively Proven track record of launching successful products and driving business results Experienced with a subscription-based product offering (advantage) What do you get in return? 25 days annual leave rising to 30 5% pension after probation State of the art city centre offices Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World Discounted city centre parking Free eye care cover Life Assurance Cycle to Work Scheme EAP (Employee assistance programme) Monthly Tes Socials Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu Who are Tes? Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management. Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes. Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required. www.tes.com/tesglobal Other details Pay Type Salary Min Hiring Rate £45,000.00 Max Hiring Rate £55,000.00