On behalf of our client in Cambridge Pop Science is delighted to offer the position of Product Owner (SaaS) to join their team. This role would suit an innovator who is looking to move to a young company where there are opportunities for everyone at all levels. This is a 100% home working role. 

Job Purpose:

As the Agile Product Owner, you will support the creation of the product backlog, defining user stories, and working closely with the VP of Product and the Development Team to ensure that the
product meets customer needs and business objectives.

• To gather and communicate the requirements of stakeholders to the product team for feature and user story creation and inclusion into the product backlog.
• To ensure roadmap items are decomposed into features and user stories with required acceptance criteria to enable the user story and feature to be developed and tested.
• To ensure that the software features meet the needs of its intended users and stakeholders, is of high quality, and complies with legal, regulatory and industry standards.
• To contribute to the ongoing Product Roadmap development

Key Functions

• The key functions performed will include, but may not be limited to the following areas:
• Working closely with the VP of Product & the development team to ensure that user stories are clearly defined, estimated, and implemented in accordance with agile best practices.
• Decompose roadmap items into understandable features and user stories to enable appropriate communication to stakeholders and customers.
• Communicates the product vision and requirements to the development team and works closely with them to ensure that they understand the requirements and are developing software
• that meets the stakeholder's needs and acceptance criteria. Work with VP of Product and other key stakeholders (internal and external) to define and decompose high level requirements into
• appropriate Epics, Features and User stories for development.
• Support the definition and prioritisation of the product backlog Review UX/UI design concepts and designs and decompose these appropriately into Epics, Features and User Stories with Acceptance Criteria
• Work with software developers and software testers to ensure that the vision and goal of the features and user stories are well understood.
• Provide support to the software developers and software testers during the development and test phases
• Review completed work to ensure that it meets the acceptance criteria and is of high quality.
• Adapting the product backlog as needed to reflect changes in stakeholder or customer needs or business priorities.
• Ensure that the development team is aware of any changes to the product backlog as required and that they are implemented in a timely manner.
• Review the issues raised during the test phase to determine impact to requirements, acceptance criteria and/or build.

Create, contribute to and maintain product documents including but not limited to:

• Requirement Development (Epics, Features & User
• Stories)
• Product & SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
• Process flows
• Release Planning
• Release Notes
• Known issues
• User manuals
• Work with stakeholders to manage expectations regarding the product backlog and release schedule. Communicate any changes to the backlog or release schedule and ensure that the
• VP of Product and Stakeholders are appropriately informed.
• Demonstrating the product features to the internal and external stakeholders
• Support the knowledge transfer of the product features to sales and business operations.
• Work with the Head of Development to provide timelines and
• effort estimates for deliverable features and user stories.
• Work with the VP of Product to understand the product strategy

Skills and Qualifications

• Agile SCRUM / Sprint Processes
• Excellent knowledge of Epics, Features and User Story development.
• Deep understanding of agile methodologies and experience with agile tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence).
• Strong product management skills, including experience with product planning, user research, and roadmap development.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills