Product Owner - Flutter UK&I

The role:

Our team is looking for a Product Owner to deliver game-changing improvements for Betfair's customers and business.

Reporting to the Product Delivery Manager, you will bridge technical and business worlds as you continually deliver improvements and innovative features across the full range of the products.

You will have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive the product experience.

Your exceptional communication skills will be key, adapting to a high paced environment and constant interactions with a diverse group of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads requirements gathering effort based on stakeholders' input
• Responsible for writing user stories, acceptance criteria, stocking, grooming and prioritizing backlogs, producing release plans and epic roadmaps, running show and tells and producing release communications and tracking benefits realization
• Attending all scrum/relevant ceremonies
• Accountable for the timely availability and accuracy of requirements for development projects, ensuring the engineering teams can develop software as efficiently as possible
• Work with the User Experience department to ensure implemented features match with their user journeys and design
• Maintains the written 'source of truth': documented user stories recording the agreed requirements of all product owners and stakeholders to enable traceability and re-use.
• Performs change management through product and sprint backlogs as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Keeps Technology Management, Programme Management, Product Management well informed of the status of development requirements and scope
• Communicates and enforces requirements specification standards
• Understands the dependencies between technology components and how they combine to deliver solutions to the end consumer and to the business
• Consistently creates high-quality well documented, easily sustained deliverables and documentation
• Understands and balances commercial needs against technical requirements and capabilities
• Ensures that all solutions meet company-wide 'hygiene' requirements in terms of functional, non-functional performance, security, compliance, social responsibility
• Identifies risks and raises concerns in due time when applicable, along with mitigation options
• Contribute to technical discussions (e.g. scalability, architecture) and understand the benefits and drawbacks of different technical solutions

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Experience in product development
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, based on a data driven approach
• Knowledge of techniques for requirements elicitation and specification
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, drives for simplicity and clarity, able to confidently present and influence senior management
• Knowledge of A/B testing
• Google Analytics
• Experience with working with structured project lifecycles
• Strong relationship management skills;
• Experience in working across multiple Agile methodologies;

What can you expect:

• 25 days of annual leave;
• Sharesave scheme;
• „Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
• Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
• Free parking;
• Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy';
• Working from home options.

Ways of working:

Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective Paddy Power Betfair role.