Product Owner, Agile, Hybrid working

Product Ownership & Delivery • Represent the voice of the customer and business stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle. • Own and manage the Product Backlog, ensuring items are well defined, prioritized, and aligned with business value. • Define user stories, acceptance criteria, and ensure readiness for sprint planning. • Participate actively in sprint ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives. • Ensure timely decision making to prevent delivery delays.

Stakeholder Communication & Management • Act as the primary communication bridge between stakeholders and the delivery team. • Engage with business, client, internal, and external stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify priorities, and manage expectations. • Communicate product vision, roadmap, priorities, and release plans clearly to all stakeholders. • Provide regular updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery status. • Facilitate alignment across cross functional teams including Engineering, QA, UX, DevOps, Finance, and Business teams. • Identify stakeholder risks and proactively manage concerns through structured communication and engagement plans.

Requirements & Analysis • Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements and user stories. • Support impact analysis, dependency identification, and prioritization decisions. • Work closely with teams to resolve requirement ambiguities and scope clarifications during development.

Governance, Risk & Quality • Ensure alignment with agreed scope, timelines, and quality standards. • Identify delivery risks early and communicate mitigation plans to stakeholders. • Support release management activities and stakeholder sign offs.

Required Skills & Qualifications • Proven experience as a Product Owner in Agile/Scrum environments. • Strong stakeholder communication, facilitation, and negotiation skills. • Ability to clearly articulate priorities and business value to diverse audiences. • Experience working with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps). • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Key Success Indicators • Stakeholders have clear visibility into priorities, progress, and risks. • Well groomed backlog aligned to business outcomes. • Minimal delivery rework due to clear requirements and communication. • Strong trust and collaboration between stakeholders and delivery teams.