Product Owner (Skills & Learning) - People Platform

About the Role

In this Product Owner role, you'll lead delivery and value outcomes for Skills and Learning products.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop expert knowledge of the products and processes, understanding how they are completed through our technology systems to improve colleague engagement and experience.
• Craft the product vision and manage the product backlog, crafting features, epics, and user stories that align with our product goals.
• Define user stories and collaborate with team members to analyse these stories for continuous improvement of colleague journeys.
• Drive the delivery of end-to-end colleague journeys, ensuring feedback is incorporated into the team's outcomes to maximise value.
• Support the development of Lab or Team Objectives and Key Results, providing product performance and benefits realization data.
• Develop capabilities within your functional area, investing in personal and team growth through mentoring and other informal methods.

What You'll Need

• Proven ability to manage and run a product backlog, with experience in crafting features, epics, and user stories.
• Significant experience in applying agile methodologies to optimise innovation, development, and delivery.
• Experience with agile methods like Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, leading and working with HR tech/process agile teams.
• Strong skills in managing collaborators, able to work effectively with colleagues from different business areas and third parties.
• Strong leadership skills to construct a high-performing team environment, encouraging delivery while promoting simplicity and building confidence and trust.

Additional Experience (Preferred but Not Required)

• Experience delivering change within HR technology.
• HR practitioner experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft products, particularly in skills and learning.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Join us and be part of our ambitious journey to craft the future of HR technology and deliver world-class experiences to our colleagues and customers!