Product Owner jobs in United Kingdom

Grade Level (for internal use): 11

As a Product Owner within the Analytical Experience Product Management team at S&P Global Ratings, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering innovative solutions that directly impact our global ratings services. You will help lead the Agile transformation of our product management processes, ensuring we create high-value products that serve our users while driving the long-term success of S&P Global Ratings. By collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will enable the efficient execution of publishing workflow product initiatives across Corporates, Infrastructure, Financial Services, Sovereigns, and International Public Finance practices. Your contributions will shape both the technical and strategic direction of the company’s product portfolio.

• Career Growth: As part of the Analytical Product Management team, you will work alongside talented and experienced professionals, further developing your product management expertise, particularly within the financial services and ratings industry.
• Influence & Impact: Lead key product initiatives with a direct impact on global financial markets and S&P Global Ratings’ customers. Be at the forefront of driving product innovation, leveraging Agile methodologies and cutting-edge technology.
• Learning & Development: Participate in S&P Global's ongoing Agile transformation, gaining exposure to advanced product management practices, as well as cross-departmental collaboration and leadership development.
• Work Environment: Be part of a company that values inclusion and encourages a growth mindset, with opportunities to mentor and collaborate with a dynamic team.

As a Product Owner, your responsibilities will include:

• Flow Design Thinking & Features: Operate under a flow design mindset, focusing on creating seamless and intuitive user experiences across the entire product journey. Focus on end-to-end user journey, understanding how each element of the features interacts with and impacts the product and overall user experience.
• Backlog Ownership & User Flow/Feature Prioritization: Ensure user flow, including features and user stories are clearly defined, technical requirements are well articulated and aligned to business goals and user needs. Collaborate with Product Managers & Senior Product Owners to define product priorities and groom the backlog effectively.
• Collaboration with Users & Development Teams: Work closely with users and Ratings Technology teams to define product requirements, deliverables, and timelines. Ensure clear communication of the team’s goals, requirements, and dependencies to drive successful product delivery.
• User-Centric Product Development: Actively gather user feedback, analyze customer insights, and identify opportunities to integrate improvements and new features into the user flow and product roadmap. Advocate for user needs while balancing business requirements and technical feasibility.
• Innovation & Risk Management: Drive innovation by identifying emerging technologies and trends that may affect the product landscape. Proactively manage product risks, ensuring that potential roadblocks are identified and mitigated early in the development process.
• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate regularly with stakeholders to provide updates on product status, timelines, and risks. Act as the primary point of contact for key product initiatives, ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Product Demos & Training: Lead and participate in product demos to end-users and other stakeholders. Collaborate with Product Enablement teams to create adoption strategies, training materials, and communication plans for product features.

We are seeking a Senior Product Owner with:

• Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field. Product Management certification(s) are a plus.
• Experience: 4+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record of delivering successful products within an Agile environment (SAFe Agile or similar framework). Experience within financial services or ratings is highly preferred, but not required. Strong knowledge of product management techniques including backlog management, writing features and user stories, and working with cross-functional teams.

• Flow Optimization: Prioritize user experience and holistic design, not just discrete features. Ensure features delivered fit seamlessly into broader user flow. Facilitate workshops and design sprints to identify opportunities for flow improvement.
• Challenge Traditional Thinking: Guide teams to think strategically about entire user journey, ensuring product evolves as a cohesive system rather than a collection of separate features.
• Technical Expertise: Solid understanding of technical requirements and how they impact the product. Ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams, making informed trade-offs where necessary.
• Agile Methodologies: In-depth experience working in Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe). Familiarity with Agile frameworks and how to effectively implement them in product development.
• Customer Focus: A strong customer-centric mindset with the ability to gather, interpret, and act upon customer feedback to drive product improvements.
• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to present product ideas and solutions to stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Problem Solving & Innovation: Strong problem-solving skills, with a creative and innovative approach to overcoming product challenges and seizing new opportunities.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Comfortable with data analysis and making decisions based on KPIs, metrics, and performance analytics.
• Risk Management: Experience in risk assessment and mitigation strategies, ensuring smooth product delivery and minimizing potential disruptions.

About S&P Global Ratings

S&P Global Ratings is the world’s leading provider of independent credit ratings. Our ratings are essential to driving growth, providing transparency and helping educate market participants so they can make decisions with confidence. We have more than 1 million credit ratings outstanding on government, corporate, financial sector and structured finance entities and securities. We offer an independent view of the market built on a unique combination of broad perspective and local insight. We provide our opinions and research about relative credit risk; market participants gain independent information to help support the growth of transparent, liquid debt markets worldwide.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings.

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race/ethnicity, gender, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status (including domestic partnerships and civil unions), sexual orientation, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

About S&P Global Ratings

At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

Our purpose, people, and values guide our approach to work. We offer a comprehensive benefits program and a culture that supports growth, inclusion, and collaboration. See benefits details for more information.

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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