Product Owner Horsham, England
Job description
Location: Horsham (UK)
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000
Contract: Permanent
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:00 (37.5 hours)
Please only apply to this role if you are able to reliably commute to the Horsham Office.
Overview:
Metricell is on a mission to deliver connectivity. We work with our customers in the telecommunications industry to design, deliver and manage wireless communication networks – with a shared ambition of achieving flawless network experience.
Our entrepreneurial team shares a passion for technology, and we provide a great environment for you to grow and develop your career. Together, we achieve breakthrough results for our clients. You will be expected to play your part, right from the start.
An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join a market-leading telecommunications company and join our growing company. As a Product Owner, you will join our driven and successful Product team to deliver the best products to market. You will be responsible collating knowledge from a variety of sources including industry trends, new technologies, customer requirements, business objective and competitors to develop a considered product strategy and maximise the success of our products.
You will work alongside Product Designers and Development to generate detailed user stories, ensuring that agreed stakeholder objectives are met whilst overseeing the entire product development cycle.
Do you want to make a big impact in a small amount of time? Are you a talented team player with bags of self-motivation? If so, we want to hear from you!
Day to Day Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product team (UI/UX, Product Management) and other stakeholders (Sales, Service Desk, Customers) to extract business and user requirements for our products.
- Manage the Product backlog, taking into consideration the changing needs of the market and business ensuing that the correct features are delivered when needed whilst maximising value.
- Creating user stories based on the backlog items using Jira which are then passed onto the development teams.
- Interacting with the development teams on a daily basis, identifying and removing any blockers that they encounter.
- Take new products and features from initial concepts all the way through to release.
- Be the subject matter expert on the Products that you are responsible for.
- Define and deliver MVPs for new products, testing new concepts to determine the value of future changes.
- Perform high-level user acceptance testing to ensure that only the highest quality product is being provided to our customers.
We Require you to have:
- Knowledge of the Product Development Lifecycle
- Knowledge of Agile working methodologies
- Keen interest in all things technology
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
- 2 years’ experience within the Product space
- Self-starter with the ability to communicate and interact with people at all levels both externally and internally
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Good presentation and influencing skills
Desirable but not essential:
- Experience in the Telecoms sector
- Working knowledge of Atlassian Jira platform
- Degree in a Business discipline
Benefits:
- Additional day off for your Birthday
- 2 days volunteering leave per year
- 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Childcare vouchers
- Pension scheme
- Gym, showers and games room
- Monthly social events
- Charity and fundraising events
- Generous annual training budget
- Apprenticeships including Degree Apprenticeships supported
- Hybrid working an option after 3 months
Following your successful probationary period:
- Vitality private health care (icluding hearing, sight and dental)
- Bike2Work scheme
- Performance bonus scheme
- EMI share scheme
- LinkedIn Learning platform
About Metricell
We are a young and entrepreneurial software company based in Horsham, only 10 minutes’ walk from the train station. If you prefer to drive, we have onsite car parking at the premises too.
We’ve been on the forefront of network connectivity for over ten years and our solutions are helping governments, network operators and everyday businesses around the world to become Better Connected. We are immensely proud to have been awarded the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise. This award is recognition of how our crowdsourcing technology is helping customers around the world to measure and monitor network performance: from Wi-Fi hotspots to mobile coverage. Our products use the latest technologies and span a range of areas, predominantly within the Telecommunications space including; test and measurement, crowdsourcing, digital customer care / self-service, geospatial intelligence and network visualisation.
Our innovative, market-leading software is in use by tens of thousands of personnel working for some of the world’s largest mobile network operators for the benefit of millions of their subscribers. But the product is only as good as our people! Metricell is headquartered in the UK but we operate internationally. Our headcount has increased tenfold in the last 10 years.
As well as being a local business, we make great effort to make sure our office space is the best it can be, with a fully equipped gym, and large social space with a pool table and table football. We hold various social events throughout the year, these include; escape rooms, competitions, summer parties, variety of sports and our notorious game shows and quizzes! We organise numerous charity events throughout the year including, London to Brighton bike ride, Tough Mudder, Lockdown Head Shave, Silent Auction and our popular Christmas Raffle, in order to raise money for fantastic causes in our local area. Some of charities we have supported include; Horsham Matters, Chestnut Tree House, Stonewall, Horsham district food bank and the NSPCC.
If this job description doesn’t sound like a good fit but you’d still like to work for us, then feel free to send in your CV and we’ll be in touch.
You can find out more about us here www.metricell.com/about
Are you the experienced, and talented ‘Product Owner’ that we are looking for? If so, please click the “apply” button today to submit your CV for consideration.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
Application question(s):
- Do you currently have the right to work in the UK?
- Can you reliably commute to the Horsham office? RH13 5PX
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Horsham, RH13 5PX
Application deadline: 06/02/2023
