Product Owner

JR United Kingdom; Stroud; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a Product Owner to lead the delivery of cutting-edge technology solutions. This role involves managing stakeholders, optimizing platforms, and ensuring a seamless user experience. You will work closely with development teams to create user stories and prioritize requirements, contributing to the company's mission of sustainability and green energy. With a focus on agile methodologies, you will play a key role in shaping digital journeys that enhance customer satisfaction. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to making a positive impact in the energy sector.

Benefits

Healthcare Plan

Life Assurance

Generous Pension Contribution

Hybrid Working

Company Discounts

25 Days Holiday

Cycle to Work Scheme

Onsite Parking

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering digital products and services.
• Strong skills in stakeholder management and agile project estimation.

Responsibilities

• Manage the build and delivery of software experiences.
• Facilitate workshops and manage product backlog.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Jira

Agile Methodologies

User Story Writing

Communication Skills

Risk Management

Education

Product Owner Certification

Experience in Digital Product Delivery

Tools

Jira

Job description

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Product Owners are responsible for leading the delivery of the technology here at Ecotricity.

I have vacancy for a product owner to pair up with one of delivery teams and support the optimisation of one our platforms.

The success of our entire business relies on digital channels and a self-service first model. The energy industry is complex though and many systems and services must be integrated to create journeys that support our customers’ needs. We’re building these journeys that also allow our contact centre agents to fully support our customers and plug the gaps where self-service isn’t possible.

Responsibilities

• Managing the build and continuous delivery of awesome software experiences that improve performance of our platforms
• Managing stakeholders through steering, agile ceremonies, stand-ups and workshops
• Run requirement gathering workshops with internal and external stakeholders.
• Continuous monitoring of product-related technical debt, working alongside the developers to ensure that sprints have an appropriate mix of new functionality, fixes and on demands changes
• Management of Product Backlog and prioritising requirements based on the business goals
• Development of User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Epics
• Strong business case and cost benefit analysis skills

Key Relationships

• Senior Business Stakeholders.
• UX Team
• Development teams
• QA Team

Knowledge and skills

• Stakeholder management and facilitation of decisions of all sizes
• Technical resource management
• Project Manager collaboration
• Management of Product Backlog
• Development of User Stories
• Risk and issue management
• Agile project estimation using story pointing and velocity reporting

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of having delivered brilliant digital products and services
• Strong Jira experience including story pointing and velocity tracking
• Attention to detail, methodical approach
• First-rate written and verbal communication
• Proven personal development, self-management and a desire to be brilliant
• Clear and concise relaying of ideas and concepts
• Passionate about UX and previous involvement in creative UX builds
• strong user story writing experience using, gherkin/cucumber format and providing acceptance criteria
• Experience & confidence in public speaking

Advantageous

• Digital agency experience
• Experience of working with both front-end and backend tech teams to deliver projects
• Knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion to fix them using technology
• Product Owner (certified)
• Recent experience in the Energy industry

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.