Product Owner - Air Quality Solutions

It's our mission to seamlessly provide the most detailed global air quality information to improve human health globally.

By exposing air pollution in real-time, we provide actionable insights to optimise strategic decision-making and mitigation.

We're looking for someone to lead product development for MyAir, our air quality platform, and help steer it through an exciting period of global expansion.

EarthSense

Initially spun out from academia in 2016, EarthSense is revolutionising air pollution management, using the latest technologies to address spatial and temporal data gaps to empower users with clear insights, helping them manage and improve poor air quality.

Since our inception, we've realised 40% year-on-year growth through three key product lines:

1. Zephyr - A cost-effective and innovative, air quality monitoring device.
2. MappAir - Our air quality model, forecasting air quality trends.
3. MyAir - The web-based, environmental insights platform.

A team of passionate individuals, we are at the frontier of our next growth cycle as we fine-tune our product fit and continue to deliver high value to our customers across a variety of public and private sectors.

Job Role

We're after someone to own the MyAir product life cycle, act as the voice of the customer and ensure that MyAir continues to lead the way.

You'd be responsible for:

• Championing MyAir, ensuring alignment of vision, roadmap and delivery, while prioritising the backlog with data-driven decisions.
• Owning the product backlog, ensuring it is clearly defined, organised and aligned with business objectives, stakeholder needs and a balance between new features, technical debt and bug fixes.
• Writing clear, concise, and actionable user stories with achievable acceptance criteria, ensuring that our engineering team know the "what" and "why" of the work.
• Facilitating the backlog refinement process to ensure everyone has a shared understanding of the product goals, align progress with the overall project timelines and identify / address any issues that may affect the refinement process.
• Collaborating with the engineering team during sprint planning to ensure priorities are addressed, and adjusting the backlog based on sprint reviews and retrospectives to ensure it continues to align with broader product strategy and evolving business and customer needs.
• Leading the UI/UX team to ensure that new features are aligned to the user needs, easy to navigate, accessible and deliverable.
• Support the creation of product literature such as knowledge hub articles, version notes, capability statements, application notes, brochures and spec sheets, collaborating with marketing to deliver impactful and engaging product launch campaigns.
• Reporting product developments and KPIs direct to stakeholders, inc. executive management and clients.
• Promoting the use of scrum principles.
• Ensure GDPR and ISO27001 processes are considered and adhered to.

Experience

Ideally, you'd have come from a product-orientated role, have some level of technical knowledge, and a user-first mindset. Experience is important and we value people who can bring a unique perspective to the role.

Some of the fundamentals you'd have locked down are:

• Strong understanding of web platforms, subscription models and digital transformation.
• Data-driven mindset and experience using analytics to inform product decisions and direction.
• Clear communicator, able to communicate complex topics at all levels to garner feedback and distil down to clear product goals.

Environmental and health intelligence is a key focus for MyAir, and candidates with strong backgrounds in GIS, data analysis, and data presentation are especially desirable.

We value the following attributes:

• A good understanding of GIS, geospatial data, and spatial analysis.
• A strong understanding of data visualisation and simplification - we're big on making the data accessible to all user types.
• A creative flair for UI / UX design, ready to guide the design team.
• Knowledge of environmental & air quality regulations for private and public sectors.
• Experience using AI in the workplace.
• Experience with company systems or similar; Figma (UI/UX design), Monday (work management), Microsoft Loop (documentation), GitHub (technical documentation), Odoo (CRM), Postman (APIs), Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

Owning a product requires a variety of skills and most importantly you need to be adaptable, and ready to move with the market and customers if things change. Being part of a fast-growing tech startup is an exciting place to be for the right individual, where you have tangible input on the roadmap, strategy and growth of exciting new products.

What can EarthSense offer?

Starting salary up to £45k, based on experience, with bonus potential (up to 45% of base salary, yearly).

Enjoy 25 days of paid leave plus public holidays and day off on your birthday. Earn an additional day off every year, up to 5 days.

Buy or sell up to 5 days of holiday each year to suit your needs.

Access to WeCare health and wellbeing scheme to support physical and mental health. We'll also cover prescription eyewear!

Choose tech that suits you best – whether it's a Windows or Mac. Plus our tech purchase scheme provides tax efficient options for personal items.

Exclusive discounts for high-street shopping and Cycle-to-work Scheme.

Why apply?

You're looking for an opportunity to lead innovation, drive growth, and make a global impact in a rapidly evolving sector.

Apply now and help us revolutionise air quality!