Product Owner

Persistent Systems; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Persistent Systems in the United Kingdom is seeking a proactive Product Manager to steer product management initiatives and set strategic direction. You will support senior management, manage development risk, and align stakeholders across the organization.

You will collaborate with product owners, business units, and tech teams to elaborate user stories, prioritize backlog, and refine features. The role emphasizes driving value, measuring outcomes, and delivering on strategic product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of product management and Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of API is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engage with Product Owners and stakeholders to discuss dependencies.
• Act as face of product to stakeholders, especially senior leadership.
• Explain the value of changes to the business and customers.
• Contribute to Story Refinement and Sprint Planning activities.
• Identify new product ideas and enhancements, and seek funding opportunities.
• Create domain roadmaps detailing feature delivery timelines.

Skills

API knowledge

Product management basics

Agile methodologies

Job description

We are an AI-led, platform-driven Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world, including 20 Fortune 50 companies and 4 of the 5 top banks in both the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem. Our disruptor’s mindset, commitment to client success, and agility to thrive in the dynamic environment have enabled us to sustain our growth momentum. Persistent has been recognized across top industry platforms for innovation, leadership, and inclusion. We have delivered 21 sequential quarters of growth with $389.7M in Q1 FY26 revenue, up 3.9% Q-o-Q and 18.8% Y-o-Y growth. Our 25,000+ global team members, located in 18 countries, have been instrumental in helping the market leaders transform their industries. We have been named the fastest-growing Indian IT services brand in the “Brand Finance India 100” 2025 report. We were also cited as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ 2025 for Digital Engineering Services 2025 and the Everest Group Talent Readiness for Next-generation Application Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.

About the Role

To manage product management initiatives and set the strategic direction. Provide support to the bank's senior management team, and to manage product development risk across the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Engage with other Product Owner’s and Business stakeholders to discuss and negotiate dependencies.
• Act as face of product to Stakeholders especially senior leadership.
• Act as customer representative to team and explains the value of the change to the business.
• Help elaborate Stories to Tech team where detail needed.
• Review and accept of all work completed in Sprint.
• Participate in Story Refinement sessions.
• Participate in Sprint Planning to help team understand the change and ensure priority of work is correct.
• Self-initiate new Ideas/ Product features / enhance existing features.
• Seek funding opportunities from Stakeholders/Business Areas for new initiatives.
• Experience of creating Business Case and presenting it to Senior stakeholders.
• Work with Projects to exploit their funding to become the vehicle to deliver new features/improve existing as well as their core requirements.
• Engage with users to understand user patterns / behaviours / potential improvements / pain points.
• Analysis prioritisation in collaboration with other leads; Prioritise live issue fixes.
• Explore metrics across the product, collaborate with Tech and Domain Lead to drive improvement.
• Create Domain Roadmaps to detail feature delivery and timelines.
• The need to drive metrics to bring to life the delivery of features and associated issues.

Qualifications

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Application Programming Interface (API) will be desirable.
• Foundational knowledge of product management and Agile methodologies.

Required Skills

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Customer Experience Empathy Maps, Journey Mapping, Story Mapping, StoryBoarding, Market Research, Product Management or Business Analysis etc., as well as job-specific skillsets.

Preferred Skills

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Experience in managing product management initiatives.
• Ability to advise and influence decision making.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives

“Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.”