Product Owner

Overview

We’re looking for a Digital Product Owner to join our Delivery team here at UNRVLD. If you’re a natural leader who is able to balance multiple projects across multiple business industries, keep pace with fast moving projects and ambitious timelines, while delivering the best value to clients, please read on.

Role

As a Product Owner at UNRVLD, you will be part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. You will run and facilitate workshops to understand client businesses, pain points, ambitions and user requirements via our discovery process. You will translate business requirements, challenges, and user needs into build-ready backlog items and supporting materials.

Role location: London, Leeds, Cardiff, Manchester or Belfast with a hybrid pattern of 2 days in the office.

Role responsibilities

• Understand multiple business industries, expertise and business logic.
• Challenge requirements constructively to ensure deliverables meet business needs, expectations and add value.
• Support the project life cycle from conception to support.
• Support clients during UAT, run client training sessions, answer platform-based questions and support CMS platform utilization.
• During build, define sprint goals, prioritise and manage the backlog, ensuring value is delivered while keeping sprint workload achievable in line with the project manager’s resource profile.
• Work with accounts managers and clients to identify additional opportunities via customer roadmaps, enhancements, consultancy and training.
• Be proactive and hands-on with the CMS, third-party tools and systems.

Experience required

• Ability to move between extracting and formulating business requirements with senior clients, and managing scope with the production team and client.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable facilitating meetings with varied stakeholders.
• Experience developing user stories, wireframes, product backlogs and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to digest large amounts of research, pull out relevant insights and form opinions.
• Experience distilling research and applying it to relevant situations.
• Resourceful and comfortable working independently; proactive in managing project requirements and scope.
• Energetic about complex problem solving with the drive to find the best solution.
• Experience working closely with senior clients.

• Experience working with UX, design and development teams.
• Demonstrable previous experience in a Product Owner role.
• Experience running workshops and information playback sessions.

Desirable

• Understanding of web technologies.
• Experience with CMS platforms, headless platforms and/or software development.
• Understanding of business analysis principles.
• Experience working within a digital agency or development house.
• Experience developing user stories, wireframes, product backlogs and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working within an agile environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Business or equivalent.
• Experience working within a development team.
• Experience of CRO processes.

We offer

• Excellent competitive salary based on your experience.
• Discretionary Professional Services annual bonus.
• 25 days leave with the opportunity to buy and sell through our trading scheme.
• Pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare Insurance via Vitality Insurance.
• 9-day Fortnight – work your hours over 9 days and take the 10th day off.

• Hybrid working environment with 2 days a week in one of our offices located in London, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Belfast and Lithuania.
• Annual team away days.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity.
• Perkbox benefits with access to 1,000+ perks and discounts.
• Training and development.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Electric Vehicle scheme.
• Eyecare vouchers & Annual flu vaccination.

Diversity, equality & inclusion

We’re an equal opportunities employer who celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you need reasonable adjustments for any part of the application and interview process, please contact the talent team to let us know the nature of your request.

About us

UNRVLD is a digital experience and technology agency that puts business outcomes first. We work with results-driven organisations of all types and sizes, where digital experience is business critical.

Our mission is to deliver outcomes that enable organisations to become truly unrivalled. Our service offer is built around two core pillars: full digital transformation (including new digital product creation) and the optimisation programmes designed to maximise the performance of existing digital platforms and technology.

UNRVLD has a deep digital heritage with over 22 years of market experience. We have talented professionals who help us stay focused on delivering valuable business outcomes for the clients we serve.