Product Owner

Maxwell Bond; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond in Manchester is seeking a Product Owner to take ownership of product decisions from discovery through delivery. You will work directly with customers, designers and software engineers to shape solutions and prioritise backlogs.

Strategies include gathering requirements, mapping journeys, and driving outcomes in a collaborative, Agile software environment. Hybrid work includes three days onsite.

Qualifications

• Experience in an Agile software or digital product environment.
• Ability to gather requirements, prioritise and manage backlogs.
• Comfortable communicating with multiple stakeholders and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog and roadmap.
• Collaborate with designers and software engineers to shape solutions.
• Engage with customers to understand needs and friction points.
• Translate discovery insights into deliverable features and outcomes.

Skills

Agile

Backlog management

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder communication

Jira

Tools

Jira

Job description

Product Owner

£35,000 – £40,000 | Manchester | Hybrid – 3 days onsite

You’ve been involved in product decisions. Now you want the opportunity to make them.

Maybe you’re a Business Analyst who wants more influence over the solution. A Product Analyst ready for more ownership. Or you’re already working in Product but feel capable of doing more than managing someone else’s backlog.

This could be the step you’ve been looking for.

You’ll join a scaling Tech4Good business where you’ll have the opportunity to take problems from initial discovery through to delivery, working directly with customers, users, designers and software engineers along the way.

Rather than simply being handed requirements and turning them into tickets, you’ll get involved in understanding the problem in the first place.

What does the customer actually need? What’s causing the friction? What should the journey look like? What should be prioritised – and why?

You’ll then have the ownership to help turn those answers into solutions.

That could mean speaking directly with customers to gather requirements, mapping user journeys, shaping a solution with design and engineering, prioritising the backlog and making decisions when different stakeholders are competing for the same development capacity.

As you build your understanding of the products, customers and wider business, you’ll be trusted with increasing autonomy to make those decisions yourself and influence future product direction.

What you’ll bring

You don’t need years of experience as a Product Owner, and Product Owner doesn’t need to be your current job title.

You could currently be a:

• Business Analyst
• Product Analyst
• Associate Product Owner
• Product Specialist
• Product Owner
• Or working in another role that has given you meaningful exposure to software product development

You’ll need experience working within an Agile software or digital product environment, with a good understanding of requirements gathering, prioritisation, backlogs and tools such as Jira.

You’ll also need to be comfortable working directly with software engineers and communicating with a range of stakeholders. That includes having the confidence to ask questions, challenge constructively and make decisions when priorities compete.

Experience with customer discovery, journey mapping, design thinking or product growth would be useful, but you don’t need to tick every box.

What matters more is that you’re curious, adaptable and ready to take more ownership.

The team is collaborative and the boundaries between roles aren't rigid. If there's a problem to solve, you'll be encouraged to get involved rather than being limited by what's written in your job description.

So, if you’re doing well in your current role but have started wondering “what’s the next step?”, this could be it.

£35,000 – £40,000 | Manchester | Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite