Product Owner, Teach Cambridge (3860) Cambridgeshire
Job description
Salary: £44,900 - £60,100
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA), a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to play an integral role in maximising the value of one of CUPA's suite of customer facing digital products, supporting product delivery through your work with development teams for both the UK and International education markets.
About the role
You will work collaboratively with the Product Manager, senior stakeholders, technical teams across the organisation to ensure the product strategy is executed within agreed budget and resources.
You will be responsible for defining requirements and priorities for the product, led by design, and working with the technical and user experience (UX) teams, as well as SMEs, to lead on translating requirements into deliverable solutions, maximising value and optimising the user experience for users and customers.
About you
You are a methodical and resilient problem solver and decision maker, proactive, well organised, and efficient with a strong eye for detail and a commitment to improving and getting things right.
You calmly combine an analytical approach with flexibility, using your interpersonal and confident communication skills to instil confidence in others and you are confident in analysing and clarifying points of detail prioritising development tasks which you enjoy seeing through to conclusion.
You will use your past experiences of working successfully with delivery teams in similar roles, along with excellent hosting and presentation skills to work in a measured way to foster a positive, collaborative, and collegiate team approach.
You possess a strong technical understanding and competence and have familiarity with systems used to manage the development backlog such as Jira and Confluence.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 1 October 2023 and interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 9th October 2023.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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