Product Owner

RDT Limited; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agile software firm in Maidstone is seeking a Product Owner to drive product delivery and manage the product roadmap. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, preferably in the insurance sector, and possess strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills. This role offers a dynamic environment with benefits including private health insurance and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private health with BUPA

Pension

Staff discount scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, preferably in the insurance industry.
• Proven ability to deliver commercially viable solutions balancing customer value and business objectives.
• Experience defining and iterating MVPs in fast-paced delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Setting the product vision and communicating with the team.
• Identifying business value of minimal viable product.
• Managing stakeholder engagement and product backlog priorities.

Skills

Product delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Position Overview

Working in your product domain, the Product Owner is responsible for the product roadmap and backlog, managing through to epics, stories and driving an agile process. You will be overall accountable for the delivery of the right product, on time and within budget.

The Product Owner is the customer representative and champion on the team, making sure that the team understands who and why they are building for, the pain points and benefits desired.

You’ll have a passion for ensuring that the products and features you build are adopted in market, driving demonstrable value to our clients and revenues for RDT.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for delivering the transformational automation capability, ensuring that the workflows, eventing, integrations and APIs come together to automate critical insurance journeys for our customers.

• Setting the product vision and clearly communicating and engaging on this with the team
• Identify the business value of a minimal viable product and minimum marketable features
• Prepare, document and manage project reporting of budgets and forecasts to meet RDT’s company objective and budget
• Assist with the estimation of new products and or change requests
• Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations directly with the customer agreeing product backlog priorities, aligning these to release plans then communicating the progress
• Make day-to-day decisions under the directions set by the stakeholders and remove business related impediments raised by the team
• Sprint planning, deciding what needs to be done in the release through collaboration with the team
• Attend daily stand-ups to answer questions from the team members
• Participate as a member of the team for the teams continuous improvement in Sprint retrospectives and follow through on assigned actions
• Be available to answer questions as they arrive, so that the team keeps moving forward un-impeded
• Participate in RDT’s product development process from idea generation, screening, idea evaluation, development through to commercialisation
• Actively work with other product owners and business analysts to maximise the value delivered by all teams
  
  

Technical Skills & Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, preferably in the insurance industry.
• Proven ability to deliver commercially viable solutions that balance customer value and business objectives.
• Experience defining and iterating MVPs in fast-paced delivery environments.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools a bonus
• Requirements gathering, user journey mapping
• Interest in applying AI to streamline insurance workflows, improve automation, or enhance customer experience.
• Brings a UX-first mindset, with a strong track record of using user testing and feedback to inform product decisions and deliver intuitive, high-impact experiences
  
  

Competency Requirements

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and reasoning skills.
• Excellent planning skills with a strong ability to balance trade-offs between customer value, technical feasibility, and business goals.
• Great interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
  
  

Benefits & Opportunities

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private health with BUPA

Pension

Staff discount scheme

Company Overview

RDT is a focused and successful agile software company. It has been working in the UK insurance market for over 30 years and in this time has been delivering highly innovative software and consulting solutions. RDT prides itself on being a disruptive force in the insurance market and has been at the forefront of many pivotal technology innovations.