Technical Product Owner Level 2

Ideagen; Ruddington; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideagen is seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner for its Maritime portfolio. You will act as the operational backbone of an engineering squad, ensuring clear priorities, robust requirements and efficient delivery in highly regulated maritime environments.

Location is UK-based with remote work and a hybrid pattern for candidates within a 35-mile radius of Nottingham; visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting agile software development teams through backlog management and sprint planning.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and product delivery best practices.
• Ability to create clear, structured requirements that support successful engineering outcomes.
• Experience working closely with Product Managers, Engineers and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own backlog quality and sprint readiness, ensuring engineering teams can deliver effectively against agreed priorities.
• Refine requirements and acceptance criteria to provide engineers with clear, actionable and well-defined work.
• Lead sprint ceremonies, including planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives, to maintain delivery momentum and transparency.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to ensure delivery activities remain aligned with customer and business objectives.
• Review AI-generated user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery artefacts to ensure quality and accuracy.
• Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies and blockers across the development cycle.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives aimed at improving squad performance and product delivery effectiveness.
• Share knowledge and support the growth of junior Product Owners where appropriate.

Skills

Backlog management

Sprint planning

Agile methodologies

Requirements writing

Stakeholder collaboration

AI delivery processes

Team mentorship

Job description

Role Purpose

Location - UK

Level - Experienced Professional

Department - Product R&D

Working Pattern - Remote

Benefits -Benefits at Ideagen

As a Technical Product Owner within Ideagen's Maritime portfolio, you'll help deliver products that support customers operating in highly regulated environments across the maritime industry. You'll act as the operational backbone of an engineering squad, ensuring priorities are clear, requirements are robust and delivery remains efficient. This is an exciting opportunity to combine product delivery expertise with technology that helps customers manage safety, compliance and operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Own backlog quality and sprint readiness, ensuring engineering teams can deliver effectively against agreed priorities.

• Refine requirements and acceptance criteria to provide engineers with clear, actionable and well-defined work.

• Lead sprint ceremonies, including planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives, to maintain delivery momentum and transparency.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers to ensure delivery activities remain aligned with customer and business objectives.

• Review AI-generated user stories, acceptance criteria and delivery artefacts to ensure quality and accuracy.

• Proactively identify and manage delivery risks, dependencies and blockers across the development cycle.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives aimed at improving squad performance and product delivery effectiveness.

• Share knowledge and support the growth of junior Product Owners where appropriate.

Skills and Experience

• Experience supporting agile software development teams through effective backlog management and sprint planning.

• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and product delivery best practices.

• Ability to create clear, structured requirements that support successful engineering outcomes.

• Experience working closely with Product Managers, Engineers and business stakeholders.

• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills within complex delivery environments.

• Confidence assessing and improving AI-assisted delivery processes and documentation.

• Experience in SaaS, maritime technology or regulated software environments would be beneficial.

• Excellent communication skills with a collaborative and proactive approach.

As a business, we place great value on collaboration, knowledge sharing and building strong relationships across our teams. Therefore, for candidates living within a 35-mile radius of Nottingham, this role will follow a hybrid working pattern, with three days per week based in our Ruddington office. Please also note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this opportunity and can only consider applicants who already have the right to work in the UK.

About Ideagen

Ideagen is the invisible force behind many things we rely on every day - from keeping airplanes soaring in the sky, to ensuring the food on our tables is safe, to helping doctors and nurses care for the sick. So, when you think of Ideagen, think of it as the silent teammate that's always working behind the scenes to help those people who make our lives safer and better. Everyday millions of people are kept safe using Ideagen software. We have offices all over the world including America, Australia, Malaysia and India with people doing lots of different and exciting jobs.We’re building a future-ready team, and AI is part of how we work smarter. If you're curious, adaptable and open to using AI to improve how you work, you’ll thrive at Ideagen!

What is next?

To ensure a flexible and inclusive process, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments by contacting us [e-mail]. All matters will be treated with strict confidence.

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