Product Owner

Job Description We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. As a Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering a cutting-edge, AI enabled digital mortgage services offering. You will lead a cross-functional team, collaborating with engineering, design, data science and business stakeholders to bring this product to life from the ground up.Our Technology Team is accountable for all technology and systems across the group, including several internally built applications as well as supplier provided solutions.We offer a hybrid working arrangement with two days per week in our Milton Keynes office.Key responsibilities:

• Define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for the mortgage services platform, aligning with Connells Group’s overall business objectives.
• Conduct thorough market analysis and user research to identify customer needs, market opportunities, and competitive landscape
• Develop and maintain an actionable product roadmap, prioritizing features and enhancements based on user feedback, business value, and resource availability.
• Lead and inspire a cross-functional team of developers, UX designer, data scientist and other stakeholders throughout the product development lifecycle
• Collaborate with mortgage services, compliance, marketing and support teams to ensure successful product launches and ongoing product performance.
• Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success. Test, learn and iterate fast to prove the viability of the service as quickly and as cheaply as possible
• Engage with customers to gather feedback, validate ideas, and ensure product alignment with their needs and expectations.
• Facilitate product demos and user acceptance testing activities
• Support various agile ceremonies, such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives

Experience and Qualifications required:

• Preferably educated to graduate level with a bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, or a related field
• Proven experience building products from 0 to 1 and proving market-fit rapidly
• Experience working with Data scientists and on AI/ML/chatbot products desirable
• Experience in Mortgage or Financial services desirable
• Experience in Estate Agency desirable
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and product management practices?
• Knowledge of agile planning tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.?Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Connells Group we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t fit perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.?CF00661