Product Owner

• Has a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Is collaborative, pragmatic and outcome focused.
• Is passionate about enabling teams to deliver meaningful customer value.
• Has excellent organisational skills and the ability to communicate effectively with audiences that possess diverse backgrounds. 
• Is enthusiastic, helpful and diligent.

• Product Ownership and Multi-Team delivery
  • Own and prioritise a transparent product backlog that supports delivery across multiple teams.
  • Ensure each team has a clear, prioritised view of work, aligned to product goals and release objectives.
  • Provide clarity and fast decision making to unblock teams and maintain delivery momentum.
  • Actively participate in team ceremonies, including planning, refinement and retrospectives.
• Release Planning and execution
  • Own the product release plan, aligning scope, sequencing and timing across multiple teams
  • Work collaboratively with Software Development, Quality Assurance and wider stakeholders to plan, track and deliver releases
  • Manage scope, risk, trade-offs and expectations to ensure predictable and high-quality releases.
  • Support release launch activities including communication, documentation and customer facing demonstrations.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as the primary point of contact for delivery scope, priorities and release timing
  • Communicate release plans, changes and trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
  • Manage expectations across business, technology and delivery teams
• Collaboration within the Product Team
  • Work with the Product Lead to translate the product roadmap into executable release plans. This includes collaborating to define a definition of ready to accept de-risked items from the roadmap funnel onto release plans. Contribute to business development activities and ongoing alignment with the Technical Strategy, alongside the Product Lead.
  • Partner with the Business Analyst to convert user needs into requirements that need to be shaped, refined and validated ahead of being shared with the software development teams.
  • Ensure UX research, design and validation activities are embedded in release plans and partner with the UX lead to incorporate best practice from design systems and user experience.

• Extensive experience as a Product Owner working on complex software within a Scrum Agile framework 
• Recent experience of B2B product software delivery

• Diverse experiences successfully shepherding major product development initiatives from start to finish 

• Experience developing both modern web-based applications as well as traditional desktop software systems 

• Strong academic track record in a STEM subject
• Knowledge of emerging smart grid industry, power systems, or electrical engineering in general would be advantageous. 

• Competitive salary, dependent upon experience  

• 33 days holiday (inclusive of 3 public days) 

• 5% matched Employer pension scheme 
• Up to 12% bonus dependent on company performance against Income Before Tax target 
• Salary sacrifice Electric Car Scheme 
• Private Medical Insurance through Vitality 
• Life Cover (3x) 
• Cycle scheme 

Smarter Grid Solutions is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to working in an environment that is free from all types of discrimination, is inclusive and empowers our people to bring their whole self to work and reach their full potential. At Smarter Grid Solutions, we recognise that we can grow and thrive with a diverse team of people. We hire great people from a variety of backgrounds not just because it is the right thing to do, but because it makes our Company stronger.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments during our recruitment process. If you need support, please reach out to recruitment@smartergridsolutions.com.

Should your application be successful, we will conduct relevant employment checks before you join us too.