Product Owner
Are you passionate about turning great ideas into outstanding products?
We're looking for a driven and collaborative Product Owner to join our R&D team in Dalgety Bay. In this key role, you'll work closely with Software Development teams to shape product direction, prioritise development activity, and ensure we deliver high-quality solutions that create real value for customers. If you thrive in an Agile environment, enjoy balancing stakeholder needs with business priorities, and have a talent for translating complex requirements into clear actions, we'd love to hear from you. This is an exciting opportunity to influence innovative technology products within a global organisation where your decisions will directly impact customer experience and product success.
Job Requirements
The Product Owner is responsible for helping to define, organise and deliver product improvements that meet customer needs, support business priorities and align with the product roadmap. Working within the R&D team and closely with Product Management, the role ensures that product requirements are clearly understood, prioritized and translated into practical work for the development team.
The job holder will manage and maintain the product backlog for key products within the VITEC Group, including new features, enhancements, defects and bug fixes. They will gather and clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria and help ensure that development activity remains focused on delivering value, quality and timely outcomes.
This role acts as an important link between Product Management, R&D and other stakeholders. The Product Owner will support effective communication, help manage competing priorities and use customer and product knowledge to guide decisions throughout the development process. The role is central to ensuring that planned product work is well defined, achievable and delivered in a way that supports both business objectives and a positive user experience.
· Product Requirements: Translate stakeholder needs and product strategy from Product Management into actionable user stories, requirements and acceptance criteria for the R&D team via the R&D tool (Jira)
· Prioritize Development Work: Create and maintain the feature backlog, prioritize items based on the product roadmap to ensure the product delivers the highest possible business value.
· Product backlog management: Ensure work in progress meets product requirements through acceptance and UX criteria, guiding changes as needed before and after completion.
· Work Closely with Development Team: Guide the development team on how to build features and interactions using domain knowledge and set development priorities in accordance with the product roadmap and R&D process and technologies.
· Ensure Development Process Compliance and Transparent reporting: Collaborate with the development team leads and Program Manager to ensure the process is followed, and deadlines are met. Report any deviation compared to initial plans ensure all stakeholders are informed.
About VITEC
VITEC is a market-leading provider of IPTV, digital signage and video streaming technologies that help organisations harness the power of video to communicate, educate and entertain. VITEC is a pioneer in the design and manufacture of hardware and software for video encoding, decoding, transcoding, archiving and streaming over IP. Our end-to-end video streaming solutions enable customers to capture TV and video content directly from any source and manage its delivery, as channels or within digital signage screens, to any connected device via an existing network.
From corporate, broadcast and venues, to accommodation, government and military, VITEC has global expertise in delivering complex, proAV solutions. VITEC’s award-winning IPTV platform is a powerful suite of services for content management, digital signage, video archiving, and video wall processing. Our encode/decode solutions are 100% hardware based, including PCIe cards with SDK for custom design or OEM for high-performance video systems.
Headquartered in Paris, France, we have a global reach through our offices across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Making a difference with green initiatives, VITEC is the first Zero Carbon MPEG company and encourages customers to buy GreenPEGTM for continued environmental efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.
Why work for VITEC?
People
Our people come first. Our teams are dynamic and inclusive and each person in every team is unique and valued. We are big on autonomy and empowering individuals to make a difference.
Work/life balance
When you thrive, we thrive. Work- life balance is the key to a rewarding career. As you grow and develop, you’ll discover the tools, culture, and opportunities to help personalise your career journey, so it’s as unique and ambitious as you are. Hybrid and flexible working options are available too, where possible.
Growth Potential
Working internationally with our team of experts means an always learning approach and there are lots of ways to play, problem solve and create. This growth will continue; innovation and evolution are key. Our growth is phenomenal – check out our company timeline and corporate overview – our future direction is clear.
Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity, inclusiveness, and your career are vital to our success. Your point of view matters and you deserve to feel included. We empower you to use your voice and talents to help others find theirs. Whoever you are, we believe your uniqueness helps us stand apart.
Team Culture
Our inclusive corporate culture provides opportunities to grow your career. Our people create great work in a relaxed way, regardless of where their workstation is located. Small teams mean your efforts and the great decision you make every day are seen. We’ve created a great team environment, with regular meetups for team collaborations and to share fun times together as well.
Benefits
We take care of everyone. What makes us tick is our people. Our people are everything. The VITEC benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional and social wellbeing. You can find out more about the benefits we offer from the HR Contact in Country.
How to Apply
VITEC is an equal opportunity employer, and the only thing that matters to us is your ability to do this role. If this role sounds like the right opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you.
Please note this role will close for applications on or before Monday 21st September 2026.