Product Owner

Vivo Talent Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Vivo Talent is partnering with an AI start-up to lead hands-on Product Owner work, translating roadmaps into usable software. Reporting to the CPO, you’ll own the backlog, shape new features and ensure clear requirements and priorities across engineering and design.

This is a role with genuine autonomy over scope, sequencing and trade-offs, enabling you to influence how a developing product works and delivers real value to customers.

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner or in a similar hands-on software delivery role.
• Experience delivering B2B software in complex operational environments.
• Strong grasp of agile, backlog management and user story creation.
• Ability to prioritise, make scope trade-offs and manage competing demands.
• Experience working closely with engineers, designers and QA.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing customer value, delivery commitments and engineering capacity.
• Turn product ideas into clear requirements, user journeys and well-written user stories.
• Define MVP scope and make practical trade-offs.
• Work with engineering and design to shape functionality and usability, and maintain functional prototypes.
• Refine stories with engineers, resolving questions and surfacing dependencies and edge cases.
• Own product acceptance, confirming features deliver their intended functionality and value.

Skills

Product backlog management

User story creation

Agile/Scrum

B2B software delivery

Requirements definition

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Vivo Talent is working with an AI start-up that is creating a new category within the software world. Their platform is bridging the gap between specific systems to save their clients time, cost while increasing productivity and efficiency.

With this, they’re looking for a hands‑on Product Owner to help turn their product roadmaps into software their customers can use. Reporting into the CPO, you’ll be working closely with the engineering team to own the product backlog, shape new features and make sure everyone has clear requirements and priorities.

Working on the strategy, you’ll have real autonomy over detailed scope, sequencing and trade‑offs. This is a chance to take genuine ownership of a developing product and influence how it works.

What you’ll do

• Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing customer value, delivery commitments and engineering capacity
• Turn product ideas into clear requirements, user journeys and well‑written user stories
• Define MVP scope and make practical trade‑offs
• Work with engineering and design to shape functionality and usability, and maintain functional prototypes
• Refine stories with engineers, resolving questions and surfacing dependencies and edge cases
• Own product acceptance, confirming features deliver their intended functionality and value

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or in a similar hands‑on software delivery role
• Experience delivering B2B software, ideally in complex operational environments
• Strong grasp of agile, backlog management and user story creation
• Ability to prioritise, make scope trade‑offs and manage competing demands
• Experience working closely with engineers, designers and QA
• Strong attention to detail across user journeys, functionality and acceptance of completed work
• Comfortable taking ownership, challenging assumptions and making decisions independently