Cloud Platform Product Owner | AI, DevOps & Reliability

GSK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Product Owner – Cloud to own the backlog and roadmap for our Cloud platform. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, partner daily with engineering, and balance new capabilities with reliability metrics.

You’ll align backlog items to GSK D&T strategy and OKRs, measure adoption, and drive value over output using lean portfolio principles. This hybrid role sits in the Platform Team.

Qualifications

• Degree in a technology, engineering or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering).
• Strong experience (typically around 5 years) in product ownership or product management, including experience owning a backlog in a platform or infrastructure context.
• Experience delivering Cloud Services as a Product Owner or equivalent member of an Agile team
• Practical experience of lean or agile backlog management, including prioritisation by value and risk rather than by request order.
• Experience using Jira or a similar backlog management tool.
• Track record of translating business needs into requirements that engineering teams could deliver without repeated clarification.
• Experience working to OKRs and measuring adoption or value delivered rather than features shipped.
• Experience steering with flow metrics and acting on delivery predictability data.Experience managing stakeholders and declining requests with a defensible reason.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog by value, risk and reliability, applying lean portfolio principles rather than fixed project plans.
• Link every backlog item explicitly to GSK D&T strategy and domain OKRs, and measure the outcome with a named metric.
• Translate consumer needs and business outcomes into clear requirements and user stories that engineering can act on without further interpretation.
• Work daily with the engineering team through refinement, planning and review, and accept completed increments against agreed criteria.
• Balance new capability against the reliability bar, agreeing SLOs and error budget impact with Reliability Engineering before committing to work.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate discovery, backlog refinement and requirement drafting, and record where AI-assisted output has been reviewed before acceptance.
• Measure product adoption, self-service uptake and value delivered, and iterate the roadmap on that evidence rather than on stakeholder volume.
• Steer delivery with flow metrics such as throughput, cycle time and work in progress, and act on them rather than reporting them.
• Manage consumer demand and stakeholder expectations, saying no with a reason where an item does not compete on value.
• Manage supplier-delivered components within the product, holding partners to the same acceptance criteria and reliability standards as internal work.
• Contribute the product view into the domain roadmap held by the Platform Manager and the portfolio view held by the Domain Portfolio Manager.
• Hold the boundaries with the Platform Manager on platform strategy, the Platform Architect on technical design and standards, and Reliability Engineering on the reliability bar.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methodologies

Backlog management

OKRs

Stakeholder management

Requirements specification

Education

Degree in technology, engineering or business

Tools

Jira

Job description

GSK is seeking a Senior Product Owner – Cloud to own the backlog and roadmap for our Cloud platform. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, partner daily with engineering, and balance new capabilities with reliability metrics.

You’ll align backlog items to GSK D&T strategy and OKRs, measure adoption, and drive value over output using lean portfolio principles. This hybrid role sits in the Platform Team.