Product Owner

Permanent, Full time (36.5 hours per week). Flexible Hybrid working – This is a hybrid role that offers flexible working between home and our Streatham Campus.  Our Digital department is currently looking for an experienced Product Owner to join the team and help us deliver our Digital Strategy! What you’ll be doing…As our Product Owner, you'll be accountable for the development and delivery of a solution to the higher education sector through the rapid development of digital applications, products, and platforms. You will balance market requirements with the technical strategy and delivery capacity. You will be happy to take the lead in developing and ensuring the development meets the roadmap and you will excel at providing evidence-based value to customers and end users. You will work collaboratively within the Product Chapter to inform, guide thinking, and develop clear plans on Agile projects to ensure requirements for improvement are translated into appropriate plans with time and costs and prioritise development activities. It's also a super exciting time to be joining our Digital Team as the university will be hosting the Digital Universities Conference in April 2024. As part of the team, you will have the opportunity to meet with some of the top higher education leaders and industry experts during this amazing networking and learning event!  Our Product Chapter…The Product chapter enables the University to achieve the right outcomes targeted at improving the user experience and increasing revenue by: Maintains ownership of products (typically a digital service fulfilling customer’s needs). Understands the needs of stakeholders and translates these into strategies and tasks. Defines the vision, development priorities and roadmap for products. We’re really looking for… Previous working experience of product management, Product Ownership and product development from inception to market delivery. Someone who is not afraid to bring new ideas to table and who wants to make a massive positive impact on the future of education. Stakeholder management is everything in this role so you need the ability to break down barriers and build lasting relationships. An interest in deeply understanding the markets in which we operate and competitor solutions. Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) for full details of this role. Apply via the university website with your CV and short a cover note telling us how great you are and how your skills line up to what we’re looking for! The closing date for this role will be the 25th of February 2024. Interviews for successful candidates are likely to be on the W/C 11th of March.