Product Owner (Brighton, UK)

We are experts in career tech­nol­o­gy. We have been pro­vid­ing job board and recruit­ment tech­nol­o­gy to our clients since 2000, work­ing with the world’s lead­ing media brands and organ­i­sa­tions in 10 lan­guages and 14 coun­tries. Madgex has offices based across the globe and has been named in The Sun­day Times 100 Best Com­pa­nies to Work for and Great Places to Work.

We’re cre­at­ing new career focused prod­ucts and have been expand­ing to intro­duce a new scrum team. We’re look­ing for a Prod­uct Own­er to join this team to rep­re­sent the user needs and pro­vide lead­er­ship to the team to ensure user sto­ries are well defined, teams know where they are going, and release plans are well com­mu­ni­cat­ed across the com­pa­ny. You’ll own the prod­uct release map, devel­op­er scope and define back­log items (epic/​features/​user sto­ries). Solve prod­uct relat­ed prob­lems, make deci­sions and com­plete trade-off analy­sis to ensure we stay on track. Act­ing as a leader of the team you’ll be agree­ing the objec­tives with the Head of Prod­uct and CTO and link­ing these togeth­er with the team, ensur­ing they under­stand the vision and goals of what is need­ed. Whilst you won’t be the teams line man­ag­er you’ll han­dle gen­er­al one to ones with the team to ensure they are aligned, clear on work and agree hol­i­day with the team to ensure goals are met.

Require­ments

Who you are: We’re look­ing for some­one with sol­id Prod­uct Man­age­ment expe­ri­ence who is hap­py work­ing in the detail, co-ordi­nat­ing and organ­is­ing UX, Dev and Test, whilst being able to man­age stake­hold­ers and their expec­ta­tions through clear prod­uct plan­ning and stake­hold­er communication.

You have excel­lent inter­per­son­al skills and are able to work with peo­ple across many dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines. Build­ing those rela­tion­ships to under­stand what each per­son needs to ensure that they under­stand what is required to deliv­er the roadmap.

Spe­cif­ic skills we would be look­ing for: -

• Worked with JIRA and oth­er agile plan­ning tools
• Deep under­stand­ing of agile method­olo­gies espe­cial­ly with expe­ri­ence of work­ing with devel­op­ment teams in a scrum flow.
• Expe­ri­ence of using veloc­i­ty and siz­ing to esti­mate release plans.
• Able to write clear user sto­ries that cap­ture the val­ue, rea­son and goal of what is being achieved.
• Demon­stra­ble roadmap plan­ning of a prod­uct, able to break­down goals to deliv­er fast iter­a­tive pro­gress­ing with mea­sur­able val­ue at each release.
• Sales or mar­ket­ing expe­ri­ence to under­stand the com­mer­cial angles of a prod­uct, to feed into the mar­ket­ing and com­mer­cial sales discussions.

Ben­e­fits

What It’s Like to Work at Madgex:

Our Val­ues

Smart – we’re intel­li­gent, we’re inno­v­a­tive, we’re prob­lem solvers

Col­lab­o­ra­tive — with clients and with each other

Bold – we chal­lenge, we’re brave, think big and we’re thought leaders

BEN­E­FITS

At Madgex, we are a com­mu­ni­ty. We’re a friend­ly bunch with pas­sion, ambi­tion and we thrive on team work, learn­ing & devel­op­ment and our reg­u­lar social gath­er­ings. As an equal­ly impor­tant mem­ber of our team you will be reward­ed with:

• A salary of £40,000 to £50,000, reviewed annually
• 25 days hol­i­day, increas­ing each year you work with us
• Flex­i­ble work­ing – we believe in work/​life balance
• Enhanced family/​partner friend­ly poli­cies – we want to sup­port you in those big life moments
• Gen­uine com­mit­ment to your health and well-being, includ­ing Health­care cov­er, Cycle to Work scheme and a whole host of activ­i­ties and approach­es from Yoga to mas­sages organ­ised by our ded­i­cat­ed Health & Hap­pi­ness team
• Team socials – we’ve had every­thing from BBQs and boot­camps to beer and our annu­al birth­day bash
• We’re com­mit­ted to your per­son­al career growth and we’ll pro­vide you with learn­ing and devel­op­ment resources
• A ded­i­cat­ed Bud­dy in your first week along­side a full induc­tion sched­ule, giv­ing you the chance to meet the whole Madgex family

Send us your CV along with a cov­er­ing let­ter telling us about you, your career, your ambi­tions and why you think you’d be a great fit with­in our team. 

We can’t wait to hear from you and invite you into the Madgex team.

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Madgex is com­mit­ted to pro­mot­ing equal oppor­tu­ni­ties in employ­ment. Employ­ees and job appli­cants will receive equal treat­ment regard­less of age, dis­abil­i­ty, gen­der reas­sign­ment, mar­i­tal or civ­il part­ner sta­tus, preg­nan­cy or mater­ni­ty, race, colour, nation­al­i­ty, eth­nic or nation­al ori­gin, reli­gion or belief, sex or sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion (Pro­tect­ed Characteristics).