Product Owner

Toyota Connected Europe Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyota Connected Europe Limited is seeking a Product Owner for our London-based hybrid role in Farringdon. You will own the backlog, shape roadmaps, and drive product decisions across a connected mobility product line with cross-functional teams.

You will balance customer needs, compliance, and business value while delivering iterative improvements and new features. You will work with engineering, data science, commercial teams, and other Toyota entities to prioritise outcomes, manage

Qualifications

• Experience as a Product Owner in a similar role, working with engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the confidence to manage competing priorities and say no when required.
• Excellent organisational skills, keeping backlog, dependencies and decisions in good order.
• Clear written communication, with solid experience writing unambiguous requirements.
• Awareness of data privacy and regulation including GDPR, EU data act, and privacy by design.

Responsibilities

• Own a backlog, turning customer and business needs into clear epics and user stories with testable acceptance criteria that engineering teams can estimate and deliver
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders including engineering, data science, commercial, as well as other Toyota entities and customers to agree priorities, outcomes and trade offs
• Understand the connected data that underpins your product: where it comes from, how it flows through our platform, its quality and limitations, where it could be used to further enhance products, legal and governance requirements and then use this information to make sound product decisions
• Run regular reviews so that cross functionally there is a shared understanding of what is being built and why

Skills

Product ownership

Agile environment

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Requirements writing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Lucid

Job description

Product Owner

Permanent

Farringdon, London - Hybrid

What is the role?

We are looking for our next Product Owner who will be responsible for one of our connected mobility products at Toyota Connected Europe. Depending on your experience and interests, you will either look after established products, continue to build out the roadmap, ensuring reliability and compliance, and ensuring value to our customers; or you will take new, innovative ideas and shape them into products that can be built and launched. Either way, you’ll work on real products used by real customers.

Either comes with a strong sense of ownership, you will be responsible for setting the direction of the product, challenging how it could and should be improved, and build the case for investment. You will operate across the full lifecycle, whether that is a new product or new features on an established one, from ideation and initial scoping, through go-to-market, and then into the operational phase.

What will you do?

• Own a backlog, turning customer and business needs into clear epics and user stories with testable acceptance criteria that engineering teams can estimate and deliver

• Work with a wide range of stakeholders including engineering, data science, commercial, as well as other Toyota entities and customers to agree priorities, outcomes and trade offs

• Understand the connected data that underpins your product: where it comes from, how it flows through our platform, its quality and limitations, where it could be used to further enhance products, legal and governance requirements and then use this information to make sound product decisions

• Run regular reviews so that cross functionally there is a shared understanding of what is being built and why

What are we looking for in you?

Here’s what we NEED, the essentials:

• Experience as a Product Owner in a similar role, working with engineering teams in an agile environment

• Strong stakeholder management, with the confidence to manage competing priorities and say no when required

• Excellent organisational skills, keeping backlog, dependencies and decisions in good order

• Clear written communication, with solid experience writing unambiguous requirements

• Awareness of data privacy and regulation including GDPR, EU data act, and privacy by design

Here’s what we’d love to find, the desirables:

• Experience in connected data, IoT, mobility or B2B data products

• Practical experience applying data privacy and regulation including GDPR, EU data act, and privacy by design

• Experience working with cloud data platforms, APIs, and event driven data integrations

• Experience using Jira, Confluence, Lucid and similar tools

What is important to us? What are our values?

Always thoughtful

We believe that we should treat each other as equals by respecting and cherishing our diverse backgrounds and abilities. We look out for one another’s wellbeing by remembering that our successes are determined by the sum of all our efforts.

Confidently collaborative

We are stronger together. We are dynamic, capable of forging highly effective relationships to achieve amazing results. It is what sets us apart.

Constantly adapting

Our success depends on looking to the future and always evolving. Through reflection and continuous improvement, we empower everyone to contribute to how we evolve as TCEU, as teams and as individuals.

Responsibly progressive

We trust each other to get the right things done in the right way. We take responsibility for our actions and deliver results, whether individually or as a team.

Another thing we’d like to mention...

There’s been a lot of research showing how marginalised groups of people may not apply for jobs unless they meet all of the requirements. We also know that many people come from wide and wonderful backgrounds with different experiences - We value people who bring unique perspectives and add new knowledge to our team!

You might not feel like you "tick all the boxes" but we sincerely hope you’ll apply anyway because you could be exactly what we we’re looking for!