Product Owner

Solera; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Solera in Leeds, UK is seeking a Product Owner to own the CAP HPI product backlog, shaping roadmaps and turning customer outcomes into clear epics and user stories. You will collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, UX, Analytics, Sales, and Support to maximise customer value across the vehicle lifecycle.

This hybrid role requires 3+ years in agile environments, excellent communication, and comfort working with APIs and data flows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner (or equivalent) in agile software.
• Ability to translate customer needs into epics and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Experience prioritising work using value, risk and effort trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to align diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the product backlog; write epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with Product Management and stakeholders to shape roadmap outcomes and prioritise work.
• Run backlog refinement and support agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, review, retro).
• Collaborate with Engineering, QA, UX, Analytics, and Support to deliver increments and reduce risk.
• Manage dependencies across teams and systems; address blockers early.
• Support release planning and go-to-market readiness (notes, docs, enablement).
• Use data to validate outcomes and drive continuous improvement.
• Promote definition of ready/done, quality thresholds, and reduce technical debt.

Skills

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Requirements writing

Data-driven decision making

API & data flows

Job description

We are looking for a Product Owner to join Solera’s CAP HPI product organisation, helping deliver high-quality, customer-focused software and data products across the vehicle lifecycle. You will own and prioritise the backlog for one or more CAP HPI product areas, working closely with UK and global stakeholders to turn customer and business outcomes into clear, deliverable epics and user stories.

What you’ll do (key responsibilities)

• Develop deep understanding of your assigned CAP HPI products, users, personas, journeys, and commercial goals.
• Own and continuously refine the product backlog; write clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with Product Management and stakeholders to shape roadmap outcomes and prioritise work to maximise customer value and business impact.
• Run effective backlog refinement and support agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, review, retro), ensuring the team is clear on scope and intent.
• Collaborate daily with Engineering, QA, UX, Analytics, and Support to deliver valuable increments and reduce delivery risk.
• Manage dependencies across teams and systems, identifying integration points and addressing blockers early.
• Support release planning and go-to-market readiness (release notes, user documentation, enablement for Sales/Support as needed).
• Use data (usage analytics, customer feedback, incident trends) to validate outcomes and drive continuous improvement.
• Promote strong product practices: definition of ready/done, quality thresholds, and pragmatic ways to pay down technical debt.

Key relationships

• Product Manager / Product Director (CAP HPI): roadmap alignment, value cases, prioritisation.
• Engineering & QA: delivery, quality, technical trade-offs, incident learning.
• UX / Research (where applicable): discovery, usability, customer journeys.
• Commercial stakeholders (Sales, Account Management, Marketing): customer needs, market feedback, enablement.
• Customer Support / Operations: service health, defect trends, customer pain points.
• Data/Platform teams and other Solera product groups: integrations, shared services, standards.

What you’ll bring (required)

• 3+ years’ experience as a Product Owner (or equivalent product delivery role) in an agile software environment, ideally with B2B products.
• Strong ability to translate customer/stakeholder needs into well-structured epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience prioritising work using value, risk, and effort trade-offs; comfortable making decisions with imperfect information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to align diverse stakeholders and explain “why” as well as “what”.
• Working knowledge of Scrum/Kanban and agile delivery practices (refinement, planning, demo/review, retrospectives).
• Comfort collaborating with technical teams and discussing APIs, integrations, data flows, and non-functional requirements (performance, resilience, security).
• Analytical mindset and familiarity with using metrics to inform product decisions (e.g., usage analytics, funnel/conversion, defect/incident trends).

Desirable

• Experience with data products and/or the automotive domain (vehicle identification, valuations, provenance/history, risk signals).
• Experience working in a global or multi-country organisation with distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Understanding of service operations: incident management, availability monitoring, and approaches to managing technical debt.
• Familiarity with discovery techniques (hypotheses, experiments, user interviews) and outcome-based roadmapping.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., PSPO, SAFe POPM) are a plus but not required.

Working model

This role is based in Leeds, UK, and is typically hybrid, combining time in the office with remote working (subject to team and business needs). You may occasionally collaborate across time zones with global Solera colleagues.

Additional information

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Job responsibilities may change over time based on business needs. Solera reserves the right to adjust, add to, or remove duties and responsibilities as required.