Product Owner
Product Owner (Engineering Productivity & Insights)
Bristol or London (2 days per week in the office)
Contract until End of Year
Are you a data-driven Product Owner with a passion for analytics, engineering effectiveness and driving meaningful business decisions?
We're supporting a leading UK financial services organisation in the search for an experienced Product Owner to lead the evolution of engineering productivity and insight capabilities across a large-scale technology function.
This is a highly visible role, working with senior technology leaders to shape how engineering performance, developer experience and AI adoption are measured, reported and improved across global teams.
About the Role
As Product Owner, you'll be responsible for driving the strategy, development and adoption of data products and insight platforms that provide meaningful visibility into engineering productivity, team performance and developer experience.
You'll work closely with engineering teams across the UK and India, leveraging both quantitative and qualitative data to generate actionable insights that influence technology strategy and investment decisions.
A key focus of the role will be leading the evaluation and implementation of a new third-party engineering productivity platform, helping the business understand the impact of AI and emerging technologies on engineering efficiency, performance and cost.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys combining product leadership, analytics, stakeholder management and strategic thinking in a complex enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for engineering productivity and insight products.
- Lead the development and scaling of enterprise data and analytics platforms.
- Transform large volumes of complex data into actionable insights and business outcomes.
- Drive the successful adoption of productivity and experience measurement capabilities across technology teams.
- Build compelling business cases to support technology investment decisions.
- Evaluate and implement third-party engineering productivity and intelligence platforms.
- Measure and report on developer productivity, engineering effectiveness and team sentiment.
- Analyse the impact of AI and emerging technologies on engineering performance and organisational outcomes.
- Create executive-level dashboards, reporting and insight packs.
- Work closely with engineering leaders, Product Owners, delivery teams and external vendors.
- Lead remote and cross-functional stakeholder groups across multiple locations.
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
✅ Proven experience managing and scaling data products within large, complex organisations
✅ Strong Product Ownership or Product Management background within technology, engineering or data environments
✅ Experience delivering analytics, reporting or insight platforms
✅ Ability to turn fragmented data into meaningful products and decision-making tools
✅ Strong understanding of:
- Data governance
- Data quality
- Enterprise reporting
- Analytics and insight generation
✅ Experience defining product roadmaps, success measures and value propositions
✅ Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior executives
✅ Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to present complex information in a simple, compelling way
✅ Experience managing third-party technology suppliers
Highly Desirable Experience
- Engineering productivity and developer experience platforms
- Engineering intelligence products
- AI and Copilot-focused initiatives
- SDLC tools including:
- Jira
- GitHub
- Harness
- SonarQube
- Customer feedback, survey or sentiment measurement products
- Google Cloud Platform and modern analytics ecosystems
- Financial services or banking environments
- Managing globally distributed teams
Why Apply?
- Lead a business-critical engineering productivity programme
- Influence technology strategy across a major enterprise organisation
- Drive adoption of innovative AI and engineering intelligence solutions
- Work with senior stakeholders across technology and product functions
- Hybrid working with offices in Bristol and London
- Opportunity to shape the future of engineering performance measurement at scale
Interested?
If you're an experienced Product Owner with a strong background in analytics, data products and stakeholder engagement, and you're excited by the opportunity to influence how engineering organisations measure productivity and AI adoption, we'd love to hear from you.
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