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Product Owner
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Product Owner
Posted 23 April by
The Access Group
Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!
Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow.
We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026.
What are we all about?
At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more.
We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more.
About you:
Reporting directly into the Senior Product Manager, this role will be responsible for owning the product backlog with the ability to understand customer requirements, work with senior leaders to agree and confirm the market opportunity, building appropriate business cases where required, to ensure that development activity is focused on delivering both customer and business benefit.
The exciting challenge will be to balance the maintenance of our existing core products whilst driving a very ambitious build programme for our new strategic solution.
Day-to-day, you will:
• Be responsible for the determining of the key features of Initiatives / projects in a timely manner as part of Release planning, creating value for both customers and the company.
• Act as liaison between the Development team and the user to interpret requirements and relay clear use cases and customer problems to the development teams.
• To manage the product backlog and backlog visibility to prioritize user stories for implementation.
• Work closely with the Development / UI team participating in scrum meetings and giving feedback, setting new sprint goals, and relaying new user stories.
• Be responsible for the How / When key features will be delivered, producing a clear Release Plan and be responsible for monitoring performance against the agreed release dates.
• Provide clear acceptance criteria for each specified feature / user story - Establish a clear definition of done.
• Will own the communication channel of each product release, sharing with all key stakeholders.
• Work with colleagues to analyse market trends and changes in requirements / priorities.
• Work with colleagues to define the strategy - Where are we now, where do we want to be and how are we going to get there?
• Participate / lead focus groups to elicit customer feedback to feed into the Release / Roadmap process
Your skills and experiences might also include:
• Will have a good understanding of Product Ownership techniques and an understanding of the Healthcare/Local Government market drivers.
• You will have excellent organizational skills, be adept at structured and evidence-based decision making.
• Previous product ownership experience is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of working in the Healthcare or Local Government sector
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail and ability to break complex subjects down into simple /easy to understand use cases.
• Ability to focus on Problem Solving - What is the problem we are trying to solve?
• Ability to prioritise and groom product backlogs.
• Ability to engage with all key stakeholders.
What does Access offer you?
We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.
On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.
At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.
We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!
What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!
Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
Our core value of Love Work, Love Life, Be You' has been central to our success and so we're looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow.
We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026.
What are we all about?
At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit's to Construction, and many more.
We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more.
About you:
Reporting directly into the Senior Product Manager, this role will be responsible for owning the product backlog with the ability to understand customer requirements, work with senior leaders to agree and confirm the market opportunity, building appropriate business cases where required, to ensure that development activity is focused on delivering both customer and business benefit.
The exciting challenge will be to balance the maintenance of our existing core products whilst driving a very ambitious build programme for our new strategic solution.
Day-to-day, you will:
• Be responsible for the determining of the key features of Initiatives / projects in a timely manner as part of Release planning, creating value for both customers and the company.
• Act as liaison between the Development team and the user to interpret requirements and relay clear use cases and customer problems to the development teams.
• To manage the product backlog and backlog visibility to prioritize user stories for implementation.
• Work closely with the Development / UI team participating in scrum meetings and giving feedback, setting new sprint goals, and relaying new user stories.
• Be responsible for the How / When key features will be delivered, producing a clear Release Plan and be responsible for monitoring performance against the agreed release dates.
• Provide clear acceptance criteria for each specified feature / user story - Establish a clear definition of done.
• Will own the communication channel of each product release, sharing with all key stakeholders.
• Work with colleagues to analyse market trends and changes in requirements / priorities.
• Work with colleagues to define the strategy - Where are we now, where do we want to be and how are we going to get there?
• Participate / lead focus groups to elicit customer feedback to feed into the Release / Roadmap process
Your skills and experiences might also include:
• Will have a good understanding of Product Ownership techniques and an understanding of the Healthcare/Local Government market drivers.
• You will have excellent organizational skills, be adept at structured and evidence-based decision making.
• Previous product ownership experience is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of working in the Healthcare or Local Government sector
• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail and ability to break complex subjects down into simple /easy to understand use cases.
• Ability to focus on Problem Solving - What is the problem we are trying to solve?
• Ability to prioritise and groom product backlogs.
• Ability to engage with all key stakeholders.
What does Access offer you?
We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.
On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you'll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.
At Access we're all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't match perfectly, we'd still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.
We love the fact that we're all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it's just more fun!
What's holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!
Love Work. Love Life. Be You.
Reference: 52522850
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