About The Role
I run a small but perfectly formed delivery team at Ecotricity. Product Owners are responsible for leading the delivery of the technology and associated business change here at Ecotricity.
I have vacancy for a product owner to pair up with one of delivery teams and support the optimisation of one our platforms.
The success of our entire business relies on digital channels and a self-service first model. The energy industry is complex though and many systems and services must be integrated to create journeys that support our customers’ needs. We’re building these journeys that also allow our contact centre agents to fully support our customers and plug the gaps where self-service isn’t possible.
Responsibilities
1. Managing the build and continuous delivery of awesome software experiences that improve performance of our platforms
2. Managing stakeholders through steering, agile ceremonies, stand-ups and workshops
3. Run requirement gathering workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
4. Continuous monitoring of product-related technical debt, working alongside the developers to ensure that sprints have an appropriate mix of new functionality, fixes and on demands changes
5. Management of Product Backlog and prioritising requirements based on the business goals
6. Development of User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Epics
7. Strong business case and cost benefit analysis skills
Advantageous
8. Digital agency experience
9. Atlassian ‘Confluence’ tool experience
10. Experience of working with both front-end and backend tech teams to deliver projects
11. Knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion to fix them using technology
12. Product Owner (certified)
13. Recent experience in the Energy industry
Key Relationships
14. Senior Business Stakeholders.
15. UX Team
16. Development teams
17. QA Team
About You
Knowledge and skills
18. Heavyweight digital product owner experience
19. Stakeholder management and facilitation of decisions of all sizes
20. Technical resource management
21. Project Manager collaboration
22. Management of Product Backlog
23. Development of User Stories
24. Sprint planning and tracking
25. Senior presentation skills (c-suite)
26. Risk and issue management
27. Agile project estimation using story pointing and velocity reporting
28. Project financial modelling
Requirements
29. Demonstrable experience of having delivered brilliant digital products and services
30. Strong Jira experience including story pointing and velocity tracking
31. Attention to detail, methodical approach
32. First-rate written and verbal communication
33. Proven personal development, self-management and a desire to be brilliant
34. Clear and concise relaying of ideas and concepts
35. Passionate about UX and previous involvement in creative UX builds
36. strong user story writing experience using, gherkin/cucumber format and providing acceptance criteria
37. Experience & confidence in public speaking
Advantageous
Digital agency experience Atlassian ‘Confluence’ tool experience Experience of working with both front-end and backend tech teams to deliver projects Knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion to fix them using technology Product Owner (certified) Recent experience in the Energy industry
Key Relationships
Senior Business Stakeholders. UX Team Development teams QA Team
About Us
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of - grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.