IB CDM Product Owner

Aplaro Ltd; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Aplaro Ltd in the United Kingdom seeks a Product Owner to maximise product value by defining vision, refining backlog, and prioritising features to deliver business outcomes. You will align with stakeholders and delivery teams, create user stories with acceptance criteria, and drive continuous improvement across the product area.

In this role you will lead backlog prioritisation, monitor KPIs, and ensure the product roadmap delivers customer value while balancing feasibility and desirability.

Qualifications

• Define product vision and strategy aligned with business goals.
• Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria and refine backlog.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to deliver value.

Responsibilities

• Ensure product alignment with business goals and market trends.
• Communicate product vision to delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Create and refine user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Participate in Agile events (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives).
• Manage the product backlog prioritising high-value features.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile & Scrum

Stakeholder communication

User stories & backlog mgmt

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

The purpose of a Product Owner is to maximize the value of the product by defining a clear product vision (are they setting the vision or would this align to ), managing authoring, refining and prioritizing the Product Backlog balancing trade-offs across desirability, viability and feasibility – making sure the right thing is being ‘built’, and prioritising work based on business goals. They act as the primary liaison between stakeholders and delivery teams, ensuring the product meets user/customer needs and delivers optimal value. Product Owners are responsible for developing a roadmap and driving execution of their product area/sub-journey, applying continuous improvement principles and techniques.

Accountabilities

• Ensure Product Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product & its features are aligned with broader objectives, driving value and contributing to the organization’s overall strategy. Utilisation of market research, analysis of customer feedback and monitoring of industry trends to identify new products, features or enhancements.
• Communicate Product Vision to Delivery Teams: Clearly articulate the product vision and goals to the delivery teams, ensuring they understand, align and are inspired to deliver the business value and purpose of each feature or user story.
• Create and Refine User Stories: Write clear, concise user stories with detailed acceptance criteria, refining them as needed to ensure the development team has all the necessary information to implement features successfully.
• Agile Events: Participate in key Agile events such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned and focused on delivering the product backlog.
• Managing the Product Backlog: Responsible for creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring the highest value features are delivered first, based on business needs, customer requirements and organisational impacts, balancing risk migration and future proofing against the product strategy.
• Act as the Voice of the Customer: Continuously gather feedback from customers and end-users to understand their pain points and ensure that the product meets their needs and improves their overall experience.
• Acceptance Criteria Definition & Management: Review and accept or reject work completed by the development team during sprints, ensuring that all delivered features meet the agreed-upon acceptance criteria and deliver business value.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with stakeholders (e.g., customers, business leaders, and marketing teams) to gather requirements, define product goals, and ensure that the product vision aligns with business objectives.
• Monitor Product Performance and Iterate: Regularly assess product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, adjusting the product backlog and roadmap to improve functionality and meet evolving customer needs.
• Manage on-going readiness and ‘run’ activities of live products including monitoring, governance and approvals.
• Risk and Control: Managing risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to resolve or mitigate and escalating as necessary those risks, and alignment between the product management and control functions.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements andescalate breaches of policies/procedures.

• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management.

Leadership Behaviours

• L – Listen and be authentic
• E – Energise and inspire
• A – Align across the enterprise
• D – Develop others