Product Owner

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Belfast

Description

The Product Owner is the bridge between Reward’s technical and business worlds, continually evaluating ideas, co-creating with users and clients, and technology teams to develop the product, continually assess the business impact and manage the backlog so that the team are working on the most important work. You will have an inclination towards action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development at speed. You will demonstrate a passion for understanding customer needs and are hungry for customer insight. You will use your curiosity for how things work and passion for user experience to create products that our customers love.

You are excited about owning product development while simultaneously handling the day-to-day prioritisation decisions with the team - you get things done and can communicate the long-term vision to business stakeholders. You are an inquisitive, collaborative leader who wants to improve things.

The team are dynamic and resourceful; helping both banking and retail clients achieve their changing business goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities

This position will be central to the company’s continued UK and global expansion, meaning there are also plenty of growth opportunities.

Embedded within the technology teams, the successful candidate will be leading a product and working alongside our product management team, co-creating with clients and users - each day will bring a new and exciting challenge.

Responsibilities for this role include:

Translating the business needs into high quality product specifications (e.g., flows, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria etc.) for your development teams to implement
Produce monitoring and performance insight on your area of ownership; highlighting issues and/ or opportunities to improve performance
Working in partnership with other product owners to ensure cohesion across projects and dependencies between development teams are effectively managed
Owning and driving the implementation of the product roadmap, working with stakeholders and co-creating with users and product management.
Contributing to the Reward product strategy

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

If you are a self-starting, commercially driven, customer-focused, strategic Product Owner with experience of working in a high-growth, ambitious environment, then this could be the perfect fit for you.
5+ years' industry experience, with at least 2 years Product Owner experience.
Expertise in agile delivery, principles and behaviours, with a willingness to adapt and learn
Ability to analyse business problems and draft user stories to define them.
Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
Capable of getting the best out of technical teams and ability to bring them along the journey

Benefits

Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependent)
Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
Pension: Hargreaves Lansdown – 6% matched contribution
Employee share scheme
Generous family friendly cover
Private healthcare - Bupa
Income protection
Critical illness cover
Life insurance cover
Dental cover
Optical cover
Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
Employee referral scheme
Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
Volunteering program
Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee!)
Team socials

Applied

Phone Screen

Psychometric Assessment

1st Interview

2nd Interview

Offer