Product Consultant: MVP-Driven Delivery & Stakeholders

Hackajob Ltd; Newtownabbey; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is hiring a Product Consultant to join our team. You’ll sit at the intersection of users, technology, and delivery, guiding teams to build the right things for the right reasons in agile settings.

You’ll own product outcomes end to end, shape backlogs, drive MVP thinking, and mentor others while collaborating across delivery teams and client organisations to deliver real value. Healthcare or UK public sector experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering bespoke software in agile teams for external clients.
• Healthcare or UK public sector experience (essential).
• Strong understanding of the full software delivery lifecycle.
• Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
• Confidence challenging decisions constructively and adapting communication styles.
• Strong backlog management, prioritisation, and MVP delivery experience.
• High-quality user story writing and requirements elicitation skills.
• Experience explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and a passion for mentoring others.
• Experience supporting sales activity (bids, proposals) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Owning and maturing team backlogs, taking features from inception through to delivery.
• Driving MVP thinking, clearly communicating value to teams and stakeholders.
• Facilitating workshops to align stakeholders and resolve uncertainty.
• Translating complex needs into clear, high-quality user stories.
• Managing scope, dependencies, and priorities to deliver value within constraints.
• Building trusted relationships across delivery teams and client organisations.
• Coaching and developing colleagues, supporting performance and growth.
• Contributing to bids, proposals, and wider sales activity where needed.

Skills

Agile delivery

Public sector exp

SDLC knowledge

Workshop facilitation

Backlog management

User stories

Stakeholder mgmt

Mentoring

Sales bids experience

Tech translation

Job description

Kainos is hiring a Product Consultant to join our team. You’ll sit at the intersection of users, technology, and delivery, guiding teams to build the right things for the right reasons in agile settings.

You’ll own product outcomes end to end, shape backlogs, drive MVP thinking, and mentor others while collaborating across delivery teams and client organisations to deliver real value. Healthcare or UK public sector experience is highly valued.