Location
Fleet, Hampshire | United Kingdom
Job description
CV-Library is a leader in the UK job board industry, boasting over 10 million monthly visits and serving more than 10,000 hiring clients. Our sister brand, Resume-Library, is rapidly growing in North America. Our headquarters are in Fleet, Hampshire, and we have regional branches across the UK and Ireland. In light of our significant growth, we are reinvesting in our talented Product and Technology teams.
We are seeking a passionate Product Owner to join our expanding Product Team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Document new features, demonstrate the latest iteration of the product during reviews, record and react to feedback.
- Working closely with the scrum team to ensure all impediments and dependencies are identified, recorded.
- Collaborate with and manage communications with stakeholders.
- Understands the estimation process and participates in this process as required.
- Supports wider teams within the business understand new projects.
- Negotiating priorities with stakeholders ensuring high-value deliverables are identified and progressed to a high level of quality.
- Work with the marketing function to ensure coverage and awareness of the product is maximized.
- You own the backlog, driven from the Product roadmap, created by the Product Managers.
- You work closely with system architects and Product Managers to clearly describe business goals and customer requirements into product backlog items.
- Assess and review technical documentation and ensure the development team create appropriate levels of product documentation.
- Influence the direction of the department, responsible for supporting engineering teams to deliver work.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Product Designers, Marketing, and Data teams to clarify and document product requirements.
- Support the scrum delivery teams by crafting actionable user stories from Product Requirements (incl. Gherkin scenarios and acceptance criteria).
- Contribute to ideation, planning, and design sessions.
- Align your work with organisational objectives to fulfil the overarching product strategy.
Requirements
Requirements
Essentials
- Excellent knowledge of agile scrum methodology and practices
- Ability to take ownership and make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner
- Adaptive and strong team player
- Excellent time management skills.
- Somebody who’s comfortable getting into a detailed technical discussion with our team of software developers.
- Experience in supporting teams that handle large data sets.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous situations and maintain velocity by removing blockers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially in creating user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience executing product discovery and supporting user research.
- Understanding of conversion rate optimisation and A/B testing strategies.
- Strong desire for achieving operational excellence through SVPG methodologies.
Desirables
- Employ a data-driven approach for prioritisation, feature development using insights, competitor analysis, and user research.
- Familiarity with A/B testing methods.
- Experience with Confluence and JIRA
Benefits
Benefits
- Excellent basic salary
- 25 days of annual leave, plus extra days based on length of service and on your birthday.
- Regular team incentives and social events, including annual Christmas and Summer parties.
- Discounts with major retailers, cinemas, family days out, and more.
- Life Insurance and Company Pension.
- Employee Assistance Programme for mental health and well-being support.
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