Your role
- Own and manage product backlogs, ensuring priorities align with user needs, business objectives, and delivery goals.
- Translate strategic outcomes into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure products are delivered effectively and provide measurable value.
- Support agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Make informed prioritisation decisions using data, user research, service performance metrics, and stakeholder feedback.
- Champion user-centred design principles throughout the product lifecycle.
- Collaborate with User Researchers and Service Designers to understand user needs and identify opportunities for service improvement.
- Ensure product decisions are evidence-based and aligned with GDS principles where applicable.
- Contribute to the design and optimisation of end-to-end user journeys across digital channels.
- Contribute to service assessments and ensure products are prepared for Alpha, Beta, and Live phases.
- Ensure accessibility, usability, and inclusion are considered throughout delivery.
- Understand and navigate sector governance, assurance processes, and stakeholder environments.
- Work with policy, operational, and technology teams to balance user needs with organisational requirements.
- Build productive relationships with clients, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
- Facilitate meetings and workshops to gather requirements, validate assumptions, and align priorities.
- Communicate product objectives, risks, dependencies, and progress clearly to stakeholders.
- Support senior product leaders in shaping product vision and strategic direction.
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Your skills and experience
- Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or similar role in agile delivery environments for either private or public sector organisations.
- Strong understanding of roadmap development and managing product backlog – paired with the ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to support decision-making.
- Ability to write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements which are then prioritised based on value.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary agile teams across engineering, design, architecture and delivery.
- Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
- Experience delivering digital services within the UK Public Sector and a good understanding of Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.