Product Owners - Leeds, United Kingdom - Hippo Digital Limited

Hippo Digital Limited

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Freelance

Description

About The Role:

Hippo Digital is looking to build a talent pool of talented
Product Owners for current and future contractor opportunities.

Due to the variety of our projects and clients, we have
Inside IR35 positions available on a short-term or long-term basis with fully remote/flexible working arrangements.

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.

Your role in a nutshell:

Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context and setting sprint goals
Protect the team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery
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
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:

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

What makes us great:
Hi, we're Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations.

Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around.

We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach.

This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.

If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.

**Diversity and Inclusion at

Hippo Digital:
A commitment to lasting change