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Product Owner

Buckinghamshire/Olney

Salary up to £45,000

Product owner required with commercial delivery exposure for a security company to work closely with R&D team and customers to capture Voice of Customer (VoC) input including user experience and make sure the final product delivers the functionality experience and value required by customers.

Acting as the bridge between the customer, product managers and R&D Team to maintain a balance between technically achievable and what is really needed. You will focus on maximising the value of the product by clearly and reliably interpreting feedback into comprehensive user stories and acceptance criteria to be given to the Research and Development (R&D) team whilst ensuring they fully understand the holistic business context and value associated to functions and features, they are developing.

Some of what you will be doing:

• Heavy focus on representing the end user
• Procure and sustain working knowledge of how the solutions are used to guarantee features functions and products are provided with a continual user-friendly experience.
• Discovering and analysing customer needs by working with internal and external stakeholders 
• Engaging stakeholders across development to collect feedback and expectations, and validate new functionality
• Shaping hardware and software solutions
• Accurately translating product managers and the R&D teams work into comprehensive user stories with crystal clear acceptance criteria and non-functional user acceptance expectations.
• Managing the product backlog proactively.
• User acceptance testing
• Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the R&D team and confidently communicating any variations of the customer’s plan
• Creating practical solutions

Ideally, your skills and experience will include:

• At least 3 years’ experience working with Agile teams as a product owner
• Working with cross-functional teams
• Jira and Confluence
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Hardware and software solutions