Principal Product Owner - London, United Kingdom - Hippo Digital Limited

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About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for
Principal 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
Principal Consultant, specialising in
Product, you'll already be an expert in your field.

You'll also be a confident leader of programs of delivery with multi disciplinary teams and an expert in user-centred design approaches.

Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to coach, lead and influence clients and team members, and to further develop your skills as a leader.


Your role in a nutshell:

  • Inspiring and guiding your colleagues across a portfolio of products and services to understand and deliver to a program vision, providing clear objectives and a clear roadmap
  • Leading programs, organisations and teams to put in place objectives and measures of success which drive the right behaviours for delivery of a long term vision
  • Engage and inform your stakeholders by taking responsibility for stakeholder engagement and having the credibility and humility to communicate with an extremely diverse group of people
  • Leads on innovation in processes and approaches to ensure operational excellence
  • 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 the 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
  • Provides expertise in the design and redesign of operational processes at any stage of the product lifecycle

What makes us great

In addition to your salary you will receive:

  • Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
  • 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
  • Perkbox access for a wide range of perks and discounts
  • Life assurance and death in service cover
  • 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


Hi, we're Hippo.

We're a digital service design consultancy that works closely with our clients to create digital products and services that work for everyone.

Since our inception, we have quickly established ourselves as a leading supplier of digital leaders, service design teams and delivery expertise.

We support large-scale digital transformation programmes to public and private sector organisations looking to truly embrace digital services to innovate and evolve.

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.


How Hippo Digital Embraces Diversity & Equal Opportunity

Job Type:
Permanent


Salary:
£71,000.00-£100,000.00 per year


Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in London

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