Junior Product Owner Manchester, England
Job description
Who we are
Having recently secured £93 million of funding from global investors, Connex One has been voted one of the top 15 fastest growing tech companies outside of London over the past 2 years.
Connex One is a UK based market leading “Omnichannel” provider, providing powerful in-house AI technology to intelligently transcribe and assess calls, with an ever expanding platform of communication channels, including Email, Livechat, Whatsapp, SMS and Facebook.
Established in 2013 Connex One is now present in 5 continents, with a global headcount of over 350 global employees, based between our offices in Manchester, Durban (South Africa), Miami (USA), Melbourne (Australia), Stockholm (Sweden) and Spain (Barcelona).
The teams comprise of; Developers, Support Engineers, Technical Services, Solutions Architects, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Infrastructure & DevOps, Finance & Accounting, HR & Compliance in all global locations. The businesses’ success is based on impeccable client service, passionate people and leading-edge technology.
In a short amount of time Connex One has been recognised for its amazing innovative software and has gone on to win the following awards and titles:
- Cloud Technology Provider of the Year - 2022 Prolific North Tech Awards
- Entrepreneur of the Year Award - 2022 Prolific North Tech Awards
- Top Contender for Unicorn Status - Titans of Tech 2022 Report by GP Bullhound
- 6th Fastest Growing Company - Northern Tech Awards 2022
- Judges Innovation Awards Winner - Northern Tech Awards 2021
- Most Exciting Tech Companies - North West Business Insider 2021
- Young Entrepreneur Award - Nick Mealey, Northern Tech Awards 2018
Job Overview
As a Junior Product Owner your main responsibilities will be to help enable the Product Team with our growing backlog of items and prioritise them based on the overall strategy and business objectives. Additionally, you will need to map out project dependencies to enforce the necessary process of development to the relevant bodies.
Core Duties & Responsibilities
- Communicating effectively with all levels of the organisation and clients
- Writing comprehensive user stories, setting sprint goals and bringing ideas to life
- Championing Agile and Product processes
- Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments
- Developing and maintaining an appropriately prioritised backlog of user stories for implementation
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the initial point of contact for training and queries related to the product
- Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio
- Research and analyse the market, users, and roadmap for the product
- Collaborate with teams of functional and technical experts to create an amazing team culture
Skills & Attributes
What we are looking for:
- People-oriented and results driven. Disciplined and looking for a challenge
- Analytically minded, you will be able to interpret data to identify future requirements
- You are a highly organised and punctual individual, who will be able to manage and prioritise a product backlog
- A team player, who can stay both energised and focussed within projects
- Ability to work under pressure whilst delivering against many conflicting priorities
- You demonstrate great attention to detail, while being able to keep sight of the bigger picture
- Proactive, independent and self-starting, you are adept at building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- Adaptability, being able to move from hosting meetings to drafting a detailed report to acceptance testing user stories within a single morning
Additional skills that would be nice:
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Figma
- Experience refining and managing the product backlog
- A desire to gain experience working with Agile methodologies in multi-team agile environments
- Good understanding of the development process, sprint process, UX/UI, accessibility and AB testing
- You are able to understand technical aspects of product
Remuneration And Benefits (location dependent)
- Market Competitive Salaries
- 26 days annual leave, plus public holidays
- Opportunity to buy additional annual leave days
- Wellbeing support from our qualified Mental Health First Aiders
- Enhanced Family Friendly Leave Policies
- Grade A office spaces based in cosmopolitan locations
- Employee Pensions Contributions
- Promotion of professional development
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £20,000.00-£25,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Manchester: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have full UK Right to Work documentation?
Work Location: One location
Application deadline: 28/02/2023
Reference ID: Junior Product Owner
