Junior Product Owner

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

On any given day, every moment matters to someone, somewhere. And every moment, Motorola Solutions’ innovations, products and services play essential roles in people’s lives. We help firefighters see around buildings and police officers see around street corners. We keep utility workers connected and visible to each other with real-time voice and data communication across the smart grid. And we provide the situational awareness first responders need when a moment brings catastrophe. We help people be their best in their moments that matter.

Guardian is a call taking & dispatching platform used by emergency service operators across the UK & Europe. We help 999 or 112 operators answer calls from the public and dispatch out nearby responders, enabling the right response when every second counts, and ultimately helping our customers save lives.

As our solution has grown from a small startup to one of the leading offerings for Fire & Police agencies, our customers now trust us to solve more of their problems. You will help us innovate across the Guardian portfolio by working under our senior product leads to refine our core call taking & dispatching offerings, while also getting the chance to carve your own path by leading development for an expansion product.

The Guardian team is distributed across the UK, with hubs in Glasgow, Leicester, and Hemel. We currently have around 150 employees. We have a relaxed but hard working environment where jeans and t-shirts are the norm and good ideas and debate are encouraged. Our daily work is remote and often asynchronous, with workflows managed via Google Chat & collaborative documents in G-Suite. However, you’ll also have the opportunity to join us for frequent in person work & social events like post-work pints, Flight Club darts, or our annual all-hands in Prague.

Job Description

Please note this role location can be based upon candidates location, so please apply regardless of your geographical location. As a Product Owner, you will work as part of an established Scrum team, overseen by a Product Manager. Your responsibility is to breathe life into your product by connecting the vision & direction defined in the product roadmap with the realities of software engineering and customer environments. You will work alongside Business Analysts and your technical leads to develop a deep understanding of the customer, the product, and the tech stack to be able to define features and functionality into small chunks for the developers and test team. You will succeed in this role if you are a person who wants to work on products that genuinely make a difference to people’s lives. You don’t necessarily need experience in Product Ownership, but you must have transferable key skills, including strong communications, confidence in making decisions day to day and a desire to continually develop your skills. The most important success indicators are pride in your work and an interest in diving deep into complicated problems.

Typical tasks in this role will include:

• Capture and document customer requirements, including business process analysis, technical analysis, etc.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized product backlog, ensuring it reflects stakeholder needs and business value.
• Work closely with the development teams to ensure the delivery of valuable product increments.
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to define the product vision, roadmap, and strategy.
• Partner with your Product Manager to refine the roadmap and break down complex features into achievable, independent and valuable units of value.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, UX, and other Motorola teams.
• Communicate product updates, progress, and risks to stakeholders.
• Participate in and lead engineering SCRUM ceremonies.

Basic Requirements

Skills & competencies:

• A high level of communication skills - written and verbal.
• A high level of technical understanding - with the ability to communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Well organised and disciplined in approach to work and time management.
• Knowledge of agile product development.
• Entrepreneurial instincts.
• A critical eye for detail and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Capable of working with engineering and QA teams to ensure high quality, predictable sprint output.
• 5 years UK residency is required for security check.

Would be a plus:

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Experience with UK bluelight (police and fire) Control Room operations.
• Experience working with UI/UX teams to define personas, userflows and story maps.
• Some knowledge of React, Typescript, Node.js, Electron.js, C# or .Net. Broader concepts could include APIs.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Flexible working options.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
• Well known companies discount scheme.

Travel Requirements: 10-25%

Relocation Provided: None

Position Type: New Grad Referral Payment Plan: Yes