Description
Do you want a challenge and ensure that your hard work gets appreciated?
As a Product Owner/Manager you will be responsible for the quality of their products. In this role, you will be expected to Do you want a challenge and ensure that your hardwork gets appreciateduse your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame problems and set priorities for your delivery teams.
Define, explain and iterate a product vision that is compelling to your users, team and stakeholders.
You will be a champion for user needs, managing a backlog, documenting product knowledge, and communicating plans and progress through various channels including blogs, stakeholder meetings and demos.
Communicating efficiently and work together within a multi-disciplinary team, fostering the open and collaborative culture to deliver a product and continuously improve it through several iterations
Engage with users and stakeholders in a range of settings to encourage take-up and use of your product
Presenting and depicting the rationale of findings in simple, engaging and easy to understand business terms to a diverse group of stakeholders.
You will be able to implement and drive the adoption of agile approach, being certified ideally Agile/Scrum certified.
- You know about agile methodology and can apply an agile mindset to all aspects of your work. You can work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
- User-Centred Design Services which can be demonstrated through successful project delivery and the achievement of key success measures for projects.
- You understand and can work within given constraints (including but not limited to technology and policy, and regulatory, financial and legal constraints).
- You can secure funding for agile delivery through a business case and through delivering a good pitch in government. You can prioritise spending based on return on investment and strategic intent.
- You understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run these. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases, into live and then into retirement. You understand incident management and service support so that products are built effectively.
- You can manage the operational process of designing and running a product or service throughout its entire product life cycle.
- You can understand and identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. You can classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies.
- You know how to use a range of product management principles and approaches. You can capture and translate user needs into deliverables. You know how to define the minimum viable product and make decisions about priorities. You can write user stories and acceptance criteria. You know how to work with a range of specialists in multidisciplinary teams.
- You understand users and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence. You can translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs. You can engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users. You put users first and can manage competing priorities.
- Designing and delivering end-to-end digital products in government, demonstrated through passing Government Digital Service (GDS) assessments at every stage of GDS agile delivery framework.
- Help support the vision, roadmaps and delivery of other products in your programme and at GDS. Play an active role in the GDS Product Management community sharing your learning and celebrating progress made by other people and teams
- You will have experience of delivering working in a large-scale software delivery and support organisation.
- Strong background in Agile/DevOps delivery in a scaled environment, also comfortable delivering in waterfall mechanisms as well.
- Good collaboration and communication skills, particularly with Development teams and influencing them.
- Passion about learning new development technologies and ways of working to improve the outputs of teams and improve customer outcomes.
- Able to undertake and successfully gain SC level security clearance checks.
- Use of collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Github, Trello.
- Able to undertake and successfully gain SC level security clearance.