Product Owner

Product Owner
Outside IR35: £550 - £600 p/d
Primarily remote, ad hoc travel to London possibly required
16th Nov start, 5 month initial contract. Extensions to follow
3 or 4 days a week

Our client, a digital consultancy with a long track record in UK government, is building a new shared intranet for two large national public sector organisations. The project merges content from their two current intranets into a single site with a new information architecture.

The role

You'll own the product vision and backlog for the new intranet, making sure it works for staff in both organisations.

• Own and prioritise the backlog, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria
• Turn the needs of staff and stakeholders in both organisations into one product vision and roadmap
• Work with user research, content design and IA to shape the new information architecture
• Make the calls on content: what moves across, what merges and what's retired
• Build agreement between stakeholders in both organisations with different priorities
• Set how success is measured, such as findability and task completion
• Work with the Delivery Lead on scope, roadmap and releases

What you'll bring

• Product owner or product manager experience on website development projects
• UK government digital project experience, working to the GDS Service Standard and agile ways of working
• Strong backlog management and prioritisation
• Using user research and data to make product decisions
• Senior stakeholder management, including building consensus across organisations

Nice to have

• Intranet, internal communications or content-heavy website projects
• Information architecture or content strategy experience
• Health or wider public sector experience
• Setting up content governance for after launch