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 home working role with some client and team meetings. 

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