Product Owner - Bristol, United Kingdom - BT

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Description
Product Owner -TV Tribe


Job Req ID:25113
Posting Date:2 Nov 2023
Function:Software Engineering
Location:Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom
Salary:Competitive with great benefits
Why this role matters


This specialist role will include responsibility for the vision and prioritisation of the BT TV feature development and work with the TV Product teams to contribute to the development and evolution of the product roadmap that the team will be responsible for delivering.


You will work alongside the Tribe Lead and Technical Tribe Lead to provide servant leadership for the BT TV Tribe resolving the trade-offs and bridging the gap between customer, business and tech considerations.


You'll have the following responsibilities

  • Have a strong understanding of the business unit strategic vision and communicate the strategic importance of the objectives to the TV Tribe
  • Collaborate with customers to discover their business problems and identify product solutions to meet these needs.
  • Work to the agile principles of openness, transparency and communication to continuously develop and nurture strong working partnerships with business stakeholders and encourage the squads within the Tribe to become closer to our customers and stakeholders
  • Maintain a user story backlog to enable the delivery team to create solutions to add customer value incrementally and quickly.
  • Collaborate with the team on the design and technical approach to the delivery of a prioritized backlog
  • Coach, mentor and provide feedback to the team.
  • Champion continuous improvement initiatives across all aspects of the product through embracing lessons learned session and an agile mindset.
  • Support the team to remove roadblocks that prevent team delivery of business value.
  • Actively seek opportunities for you and your team to collaborate with and learn from other employees in our organization through internal networks, events and communities of practice.
You'll have the following skills and experience


Skills

  • We are looking for people who enjoy working with internal and external teams to develop relationships which will help us to execute the most successful partnerships providing services that really matter to our customers.
  • Change adopter: ability to identify business outcomes, manage dependencies and deliver change in complex environments
  • Stakeholder management: ability to manage and influence stakeholders with competing priorities
  • Business and technology expertise: defined by the project scope, allowing the Product Owner to make decisions on priorities and tradeoffs
  • Empathy for the customer: uses customer feedback and data to understand and define problems, and tests potential solutions
  • Effective communication and people skills, including simple and meaningful sharing of service topics, for stakeholders and colleagues at all levels of the business.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a teamoriented environment
  • Outcomefocused and selfdriven to achieve progressive and rapid delivery of value to our business and customers, in a dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment
  • Commercial acumen and understanding of how TV services and products drive our commercial success.
  • Good awareness of Incident and Change Management principles in a supplier scenario

Experience

  • Mandatory Experience
  • Existing knowledge and experience of Product Ownership in a technical environment
  • Successful delivery of business outcomes requiring collaborative working between Product teams and Technical Tribes/Squads
  • Experience working with product and technical teams to establish roadmaps for business growth in a flexible and changing environment.
  • Preferred Experience
  • Knowledge of products within the TV and related domain
Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • 10% on target bonus
  • BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
  • 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
  • Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
  • Worldclass training and development opportunities
  • Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.
  • Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
  • Access to 100's of retail discounts including the BT shop

Our leadership standards

Looking in:


Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.


Looking out:


Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.

Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.


Looking to the future:


Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.

Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready
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