Product Owner at Activate Group Limited

Job title: Product Owner

Department: IT

Location: Homebased

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £30,000 - £40,000

We’re looking for a Product Owner to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

• Responsible for innovation and end-to-end launch of products.
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to develop and maintain a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch.
• Works with cross-functional teams and various stakeholders across the business including Customer Experience, Design, and Software Development.
• Turns data insights into features for our products.
• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities, risks, and value.
• Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.
• Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap.
• Works closely with Sales and Implementation so that our Roadmap is aligned with Customer success.
• Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology.
• Develops and maintains appropriate tracking and reporting of product performance post-launch to evaluate future investment.

Key responsibilities

• Balance of technical knowledge and business acumen
• Customer first, ABCD thinking mind set
• Proactive, self-starter with excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
• High degree of organization, individual initiative, and personal accountability

Skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product or project development experience
• At least 1 year of experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
• Proven track record of delivering data driven solutions with a customer-first mindset
• Established background in launching software or services in partnership with engineering teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops or Jira.
• Experience with Aha! Roadmaps or similar tools.

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.