Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Wokingham / Hybrid (2 days on site)

Duration: Initial 6-month duration, with potential to extend

About the Role

The electricity system is undergoing an ambitious and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, greener system that protects the planet and serves generations to come.

The Product Owner (PO) is responsible for converting the product vision and strategy into user stories that will be utilised by the development team. The PO will work closely with the Product Manager and other team members to understand and contribute to the overall product strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Your typical activities will include:

• Building, editing and maintaining the team backlog.
• Acting as the liaison between the business/Product Manager and the Scrum/Agile team.
• Working with business analysts, solution architects and subject matter experts to break down Epics and Features into user stories.
• Prioritising user stories in the team backlog to achieve goals and deliver business value.
• Accepting user stories as done, creating and assessing against the definition of done.
• Acting as customer proxy and working with product management and other POs to prepare for PI Planning.
• Contributing to the product vision, roadmap and defining the value of features and user stories.
• Collaborating with Scrum Masters to create sprint and iteration goals that drive performance.
• Ensuring the team understands backlog items to the required level of detail.
• Actively participating in agile ceremonies, including PI planning, backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint demos, and retrospectives.

About You

We value experts in their field and are looking for someone who has:

• Experience of working in a matrix team and building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Appreciation of delivering change into a continuous operational environment.
• Ability to think both about short-term action and longer-term strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong interpersonal and presentation abilities.
• Understanding of the business value of development decisions and how they affect the lifecycle of the product.
• Electricity or energy sector background would be preferred, but not essential.

Key Skills

• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, or similar).
• Backlog management and user story creation.
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to balance business priorities with technical feasibility.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Proficiency with agile delivery tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence).
• Ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of product lifecycle management.
• Strategic mindset with attention to delivery detail.

Apply Now!

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