Business Product Owner

Oxford University Press; San Fernando de Henares; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days of holiday

Hybrid working

Christmas closure

Job summary

Oxford University Press in Madrid is seeking a Business Product Owner to develop and maintain a detailed product backlog aligned with OUPE Digital Strategy for products serving the Spanish market. You will translate priorities into delivery plans and own backlogs, working with cross-functional teams to deliver value.

In this office-based role in San Fernando de Henares, you will support release planning, define epics and user stories, monitor progress, and ensure quality while embracing

Qualifications

• Proven experience translating business and user needs into product requirements.
• Practical experience with agile product development and backlog management.
• Ability to refine epics into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and external suppliers.
• Knowledge of software architecture concepts and development practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to OUPE Digital Strategy and roadmaps for Spanish market.
• Own product and platform backlogs and support release planning.
• Translate priorities into epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with OUPE, ELT, Digital Product and delivery teams to assess value, effort and risk.
• Represent customer needs and validate solutions with OUPE colleagues.
• Identify measures with Market Research to inform priorities and design.
• Monitor delivery progress, support testing, and manage risks and blockers.

Skills

Product Owner experience

Agile delivery

Backlog management

Requirements translation

Technical understanding

Stakeholder management

AI awareness

Job description

We are looking for a Business Product Owner to develop and maintain a detailed product backlog based on the OUPE Digital Strategy for products and platforms serving the Spanish market.

Main responsibilities:

• Contribute to OUP’s digital product strategy and roadmaps, translating agreed priorities into delivery plans that support OUPE and divisional goals.
• Own product and platform backlogs and support release planning, translating agreed outcomes into clear epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work with OUPE, ELT, Digital Product and delivery colleagues to assess value, customer impact, effort, risk and dependencies, and agree priorities.
• Represent customer and user needs throughout delivery, providing evidence and context and validating proposed solutions with relevant OUPE colleagues.
• Work with Market Research colleagues to identify, understand and validate customer needs, define appropriate measures, and use research findings to inform priorities, solution design and evaluation of outcomes.
• Monitor delivery progress, quality and dependencies against agreed objectives. Support testing and acceptance, elevate risks and blockers promptly, and help stakeholders make informed trade-offs when plans need to change.
• Provide product and platform expertise to OUPE and ELT colleagues, explaining capabilities, planned changes, constraints and customer or operational implications.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a Product Owner or comparable digital delivery role, working with cross-functional teams to translate business and user needs into deliverable product requirements.
• Practical experience of agile product development methods and tools, including backlog management, refinement, iteration planning and acceptance criteria.
• Resourceful with the ability to identify and agree solutions.
• Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers and suppliers, evaluate delivery implications and explain technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders. This includes a working awareness of software architecture, standards and development practices.
• Experience of planning and delivering continuous change and improvement in a digital product environment, including maintaining release plans.
• Communication, networking and influencing within a matrix structure.
• Awareness of how AI-enabled tools and capabilities can be used responsibly within digital product discovery, delivery and continuous improvement.

This is an office-based role in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).

Work-life balance is important to us; therefore, we offer 22 days’ holiday and Christmas closure. OUP’s hybrid working model requires that all staff worldwide who have an office-based role work a minimum of 2 days from their OUP office.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.