Manager- Product

Davies

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Responsibilities

Contribute to defining and evolving the product vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap.
Own one or more product backlogs, ensuring all items are well‑defined, prioritised, and aligned to customer and business goals.
Shape product features and articulate clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and design intent to guide development.
Balance customer value, technical feasibility, operational impact, and strategic alignment when prioritising.
Support product lifecycle management from discovery through delivery, optimisation, and benefits realisation.

Deeply understand customer roles, needs, pressures, and success measures across internal and external users.
Facilitate discovery activities such as interviews, workshops, process observations, and shadowing.
Translate customer needs into actionable user stories and problem statements.
Act as the voice of the customer in Scrum teams, ensuring outputs translate into meaningful outcomes.
Ensure product solutions deliver measurable value and contribute to continuous improvement.

Work within one or more Scrum teams to deliver high‑quality increments that support the product vision.
Participate in and guide Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
Provide clarity, direction, and context to developers, UX designers, and QA engineers throughout the delivery cycle.
Support UI/UX prototyping efforts, ensuring user‑centred design principles are applied.
Maintain a strong presence throughout development, ensuring alignment and resolving blockers related to requirements.

Contribute to defining and evolving the product vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap.
Own one or more product backlogs, ensuring all items are well‑defined, prioritised, and aligned to customer and business goals.
Shape product features and articulate clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and design intent to guide development.
Balance customer value, technical feasibility, operational impact, and strategic alignment when prioritising.
Support product lifecycle management from discovery through delivery, optimisation, and benefits realisation.

Deeply understand customer roles, needs, pressures, and success measures across internal and external users.
Facilitate discovery activities such as interviews, workshops, process observations, and shadowing.
Translate customer needs into actionable user stories and problem statements.
Act as the voice of the customer in Scrum teams, ensuring outputs translate into meaningful outcomes.
Ensure product solutions deliver measurable value and contribute to continuous improvement.

Work within one or more Scrum teams to deliver high‑quality increments that support the product vision.
Participate in and guide Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand‑ups, and retrospectives.
Provide clarity, direction, and context to developers, UX designers, and QA engineers throughout the delivery cycle.
Support UI/UX prototyping efforts, ensuring user‑centred design principles are applied.
Maintain a strong presence throughout development, ensuring alignment and resolving blockers related to requirements.

Mentor Associate Product Owners, assisting with skill development, prioritisation, writing stories, and stakeholder engagement.
Support training, coaching, and the development of best practices across the Product Owner Community of Practice.
Model product‑led behaviours and encourage a culture of experimentation, data‑driven decisions, and customer‑centricity.
Contribute to improving product frameworks, templates, and ways of working across the organisation.

Monitor product performance using feedback, analytics, and operational metrics to identify opportunities for enhancement.
Drive quality through rigorous acceptance criteria, definition‑of‑ready/definition‑of‑done standards, and collaboration with QA teams.
Support product warranty activities including audits, refinements, and continuous optimisation.
Seek out improvements in processes, documentation, communication, and feature delivery workflows.

Familiarity with DevOps practices, engineering workflows, and cloud delivery environments.

Understanding of product management, business analysis, and architectural practices.
Proven experience as a Product Owner or Lead Associate - Product Owner within Agile environments.
Strong understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies and product management principles.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills—able to articulate complex ideas to all audiences.
Ability to translate customer needs into well‑defined user stories, requirements, and acceptance criteria.
Strong problem‑solving skills with the ability to break down complexity into deliverable increments.
Data‑driven mindset with experience using insights to support prioritisation and feature decisions.
Experience with user‑centred design, UI/UX collaboration, and wireframing/prototyping.
Strong client focus and ability to build trusted relationships across business and technology teams.
Exposure to software engineering concepts or technologies (e.g., .NET, Python, Java).

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Experience supporting delivery of AI, digital transformation, or modernisation programmes.
Demonstrated leadership capabilities and ability to mentor junior product roles.
Familiarity with cloud computing fundamentals (Azure/AWS).