Product Owner

VIQU IT Recruitment; Manchester; Remote; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

VIQU IT Recruitment partners with an established proptech business modernising its platform and adding cloud-native capabilities. They seek a Business Analyst/Product Owner to bridge customers and developers and to create clear requirements.

This mixed role covers business analytics and product ownership, including backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, and delivery coordination to drive value and support growth in a dynamic tech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a product owner or business analyst in a software company delivering end-to-end requirements.
• Experience with accounting, finance or ERP systems.
• Able to speak with customers and relay needs to technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Discover the real problem behind requests and translate it into clear specs and acceptance criteria.
• Own the backlog for the core product day to day: refinement, prioritisation, sprint planning, reviews and retros.
• Work with developers and QA through delivery.
• Scope, gather requirements and release notes for custom development revenue.

Skills

Product ownership

Business analysis

Backlog management

Agile

Stakeholder communication

SQL querying

Data modeling

ERP / Accounting systems

Customer facing

Sprint ceremonies

Release notes / documentation

Job description

Product Owner (Proptech)

Remote with quarterly UK travel

Up to £65,000 plus bonus

VIQU have partnered with an established proptech business that are currently modernising their platform and bringing new cloud-native capability alongside it, and so are hiring a Business Analyst/Product Owner to sit between customers and the developers and create clear requirements.

This is a mixed role, with responsibilities across Business Analytics (requirement gathering, spec writing, and documentation) and Product Ownership (backlog and delivery management, running sprint ceremonies ect.).

Experience required for the Product Owner

• Experience as a product owner or business analyst in a software company, with end to end delivery of requirements.
• Experience with accounting, finance or ERP systems.
• Ability to speak to customers, scope then relay this to technical development teams.
• Experience managing backlogs, sprint ceremonies and release documentation.
• Solid agile experience and a good working relationship with dev teams.
• Enough technical skill to query a database, understand a data model and investigate/explain how the product works.
• Experience in the property industry would be an advantage.

Responsibilities of the Product Owner

• Discovering the real problem behind a customer or internal request, then turning it into clear functional specs and acceptance criteria (Bridge the gap).
• Owning the backlog for the core product day to day: refinement, prioritisation, sprint planning, reviews and retros.
• Working alongside developers and QA through delivery.
• Own product delivery of custom development revenue line - scoping , requirement gathering and release.
• Writing release notes, and briefing/training Professional Services, Client Services and Sales so they're confident with what's shipped.