Senior Product Owner - Manchester, United Kingdom - Hippo Digital Limited

Hippo Digital Limited

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About The Role:

Hippo Digital is recruiting for
Senior Product Owners to join our growing team.
Product Owners ensure that our client's goals turn into actions.

This means creating a compelling vision for your product, developing the product roadmap, writing user stories and actively managing them in a prioritised backlog.

As a Senior Consultant, specialising in
Product, you'll already be an expert in your field, in agile and a confident coach.

You'll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user-centred design approaches.

Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader.

Your role in a nutshell:

Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context and getting buyin
Protect the team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery
Engage with stakeholders to build a product vision and translate into a roadmap & backlog across multiple teams
Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field
Putting in place measurable objectives and results for teams ensuring they understand what they are working towards and can measure success
You'll work within a diverse, multidisciplinary team to deliver a product on behalf of one of our clients, likely to be one of the most significant and highprofile organisations in the UK.

Skills and experience that you need:
People are at the centre of everything we do.

We're a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users.

We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.

We don't need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have the ability to:

Lead groups of people that are specialists in their field
Identify and measure value
Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible
Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery
Find pragmatic and creative ways to overcome obstacles
Ensure the user is at the heart of the product and the team
Perform well in a wide variety of disciplines (Scrum, Kanban, DevOps)
Deliver products that meet user needs whilst balancing political, economic, social and technological factors
Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client
Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and inperson
Build capability in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to when you are not around

What makes us great:

As well as a competitive salary which we're transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
Critical illness cover
Life assurance and death in service cover
Volunteer days
Cycletowork scheme for the avid cyclists
Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
Season ticket loans
Financial and general wellbeing sessions
Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
private health cover

- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting

Hi, we're Hippo.
We are a full-service digital consultancy. We deliver meaningful transformation by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and digital engineering.

By combining all three disciplines, we approach problems on a human level and provide end-to-end solutions, solving whole problems for organisations from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement.

We partner with our customers to successfully delivers transformational programmes and help them thrive as modern digital organisations. With a strong people-focused culture and vibrant community, Hippo continues expanding its portfolio of public-sector and private-sector customers. We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver.

Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people-first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.

What makes Hippo unique is our amazing people and the great culture that we have built. Join the Hippo herd on our journey to make the world more accessible.

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