Product Owner

Product Owner
Outside IR35: £550 - £600 p/d
Primarily remote, ad hoc travel to London possibly required
16th Nov start, 5 month initial contract. Extensions to follow
3 or 4 days a week
Our client, a digital consultancy with a long track record in UK government, is building a new shared intranet for two large national public sector organisations. The project merges content from their two current intranets into a single site with a new information architecture.
The role
You'll own the product vision and backlog for the new intranet, making sure it works for staff in both organisations.
Own and prioritise the backlog, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria
Turn the needs of staff and stakeholders in both organisations into one product vision and roadmap
Work with user research, content design and IA to shape the new information architecture
Make the calls on content: what moves across, what merges and what's retired
Build agreement between stakeholders in both organisations with different priorities
Set how success is measured, such as findability and task completion
Work with the Delivery Lead on scope, roadmap and releases
What you'll bring
Product owner or product manager experience on website development projects
UK government digital project experience, working to the GDS Service Standard and agile ways of working
Strong backlog management and prioritisation
Using user research and data to make product decisions
Senior stakeholder management, including building consensus across organisations
Nice to have
Intranet, internal communications or content-heavy website projects
Information architecture or content strategy experience
Health or wider public sector experience
Setting up content governance for after launch
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