Product Owner - Leeds, United Kingdom - SKY Italia

SKY Italia

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We believe in better. And we make it happen.

Better content. Better products. And better careers.

Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate.

We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love.

And we do it all right here at Sky.

What you'll do

Communicating the Product Vision

Support the development of the Product Vision, led by the Group Digital Product Managers explicitly communicating the Product Vision and key goals, working with key stakeholders from the endtoend programme and our key business areas to inform this and also to ensure alignment in terms of product vision
To foster a highperformance collaborative team culture, ensuring that the context, rationale and purpose of the product is clear to all squad members.
Support the development of product roadmap in conjunction with Group Digital Product Managers, business partners and the AdTech Programme Manager & Senior Product Owner

Agreeing Priorities based on maximising value

Collaborate effectively with the AdTech Programme Manager, Ad Tech Senior Product Owner and key business stakeholders to agree priorities, taking into account, business and end to end programme perspectives
Ensure features are prioritised on their basis of value whether direct revenue, key dependency for other deliveries or other less tangible reasons.

Managing the Product Backlog

To be accountable for effective Product Backlog management, including creating with the squad and clearly communicating Product Backlog items and prioritising this and ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

Overseeing the Development Stages

To maintain consistent and welldocumented detail on delivery of product features to the proposed roadmap and to meet key product objectives
To maintain formal summary reporting, managing risks to ensure plans/boards are kept in line with baseline expectations and agreed tolerances
Ensure appropriate reviews are in place to ensure confidence is maintained with the key stakeholders and elicit any feedback to refine the product as required
To engender a culture of collaborative communication across the team and ensure that an effective and regular communication structure for the team to feedback any concerns
Working with the Development teams to ensure that operational requirements are captured early in the process and fully factored into development processes, to ensure the delivery of resilient, scalable and secure systems
To encourage appropriate skill and knowledge sharing across the Ad Tech team and Digital teams as appropriate.

Acting as Primary Liaison

To be the primary communicator between key stakeholders and the development teams for agreed features for Digital Advertising
Work with third party suppliers, ensuring they are fully briefed on what is required to meet your product goals

Maintain Delivery Momentum for overall Product Delivery

Working closely with other Sky departments and thirdparty suppliers, ensure that detailed plans are captured that take into account key dependencies and to ensure these are closely managed and contingent options in place as required
To unblock impediments to delivery enabling the development teams to focus

Evaluating Product Progress at each iteration

Need to take the lead on evaluating on whether the product development is fit to progress to the next iteration or whether you need to make adjustments prior to proceeding

What you'll bring

Leadership and ownership with a real passion to drive product development and delivery with cross functional teams
Solid experience of working in Digital advertising. Knowledge of the Sky Digital product set would be highly beneficial.
Ability for selfstarter to lead and help define the product backlog for multiple products for developing new advertising features in the Digital Advertising space.
Key is strong Agile skills and experience as a product owner or similar role, with the ability to grasp technical concepts and to act as key liaison point working closely with the Digital scrum teams, as well as our programme team and other business partners responsible for overall end to end deliveries.
Looking for a collaborative, adaptive teammate for this key role to help drive deliveries for Digital advertising.
Good relationship builder who is able to develop key relationships with key collaborators both internally and externally, ensuring alignment to meet product development and delivery goals

Team overview

Content technology and innovation

Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets.

With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and