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Heylus Recruitment Ltd
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Birmingham, West Midlands
Digital Product Owner
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Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen at an amazing Design Agency in Birmingham. Our clients studio is a beautiful Grade II listed building, once home to Joseph Gillott who was the first global mass manufacturer of fountain pens. The Role: As a Digital Product Owner, you will work as part of the Strategy team and be ultimately responsible for ensuring the agreed strategic vision for a product is technically realised through the studio. Working with the Production team, you will be the glue that binds together client requests, working to refine the why, when, what and how of each product feature, and helping to define their fidelity, priority and purpose for the client. You will be responsible for rallying the Strategy, Design, Engineering and Data teams to understand effort, cost and product benefits for all new features, and be able to document them into both a backlog and regular release plan, so that they can continuously deploy upgrades to products that provide real and ongoing value to our clients. If you're highly ambitious, technically minded and would love to play a leading role in helping our clients maintain game-changing products and services, this is the role for you. Responsibilities On a day-to-day basis, you will be responsible for: * Technically realising the long term purpose and direction of the product with the Strategy team * Leading requirements gathering effort on the epics as needed -- consulting with the lead Strategist, Engineering, clients, and other stakeholders * Documenting user story details based on the epics after reviewing with Engineering * Attending and taking a lead in dev standups, retrospectives, and demos * Facilitating ballot management with clients to decompose and estimate stories * Aligning with Design on UX & UI outputs * Answering questions from software engineers and clarifying client requirements * Documenting all new features for implementations and compiling release notes * Writing detailed acceptance criteria * Demonstrating the latest product iterations to customers (pre-release) and gathering feedback. REQUIREMENTS Your Experience: * 2+ Years in a Digital Product Owner role * Expert level at planning against and delivering on a product vision * Full comprehension of the product lifecycle and how ideas get translated into physical code and delivered to users * Successfully launched and maintained several live products * Led on product demonstrations for internal and external stakeholders * Worked in close proximity to commercial stakeholders and Strategy teams to support the sale and prioritisation of roadmap features * An ambassador for the Digital Product Ownership discipline, through writing content and speaking at events Your Skills: * Constantly draws inspiration from other live, successful and disruptive digital products. * Use data to rationalise product decisions and make the appropriate cases to stakeholders for feature prioritisation based on the same data * Defend the position of the customer in every product decision made. * Communicates up and across with ease, canvassing opinion and involving all relevant stakeholders. * Links the actions of customers and how the brand generates revenue to ensure decisions are made in with the brands business model at their heart. * Converts tactical opportunities to build new features and drive commercial and physical return for brands and their customers with ease * Able to use a full suite of digital tools and platforms to plan and communicate the work that you do * Consistent management of working product backlog with clients to bring the most valuable features to the foreground * Able to succinctly and accurately articulate each feature with user stories and feature requests to internal and external stakeholders For more details contact us today or apply now.