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Product Owner (Remote)

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Product Owner

Duration: 3 months initially

Location: Remote (Leeds/Manchester/London - Ad-hoc basis - Expensed)

Umbrella rate: £539.52 per day

As a Product Owner you will drive a culture of high performance and continuous improvement in our work across multiple portfolio items across Fraud. Your core focus will be on the product development and provide Product Management support across other portfolio areas when needed. You will be an evangelist, driving clarity, transparency, and alignment within the product team and the rest of the organisation such that everyone understands what we are doing and why.You will understand the product strategic goals and how they fit into our broader business priorities and support on the build of the business cases to deliver new product features and business capabilities. You will share the strategy positively with the team to build engagement and motivation, with an ability to clearly articulate what is needed while trusting the team to deliver the how.You will work with stakeholders and colleagues across the organisation to ensure we are in touch with real users, have verified our hypotheses and are making decisions based on data and user feedback.

You will prioritise delivering value while bringing the rest of the organisation with you on the product journey. You will ensure there's a plan, while promoting agile practices. You will make sure maximum value is delivered with minimum effort, that obstacles are removed, challenges are highlighted early, and successes celebrated.
You will work with business stakeholders, internal customers, external partners, and other subject matter experts to understand customer needs, business goals and support the build business cases to deliver new or improved capabilities while also looking for rationalisation opportunities
You will have experience in software delivery, preferably within the Fraud domain, and bring E2E delivery expertise.
You will have experience working with Data Science or AI, with the ability to communicate to arrange of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
With specific experience in Product ownership, you will build and own prioritised product backlog and work with delivery and architecture teams to ensure outcomes are achieved.
You will ensure stakeholders are fully aligned to the sequencing of value and have demonstrable experience delivering value through KPIs.
We seek a value driven Product Owner who can:

Own and manage the backlog confidently, keeping it aligned to business value and outcomes.
Collaborate closely with a technical lead to assess feasibility, rather than needing to be deeply technical themselves.
Be a strong communicator and relationship builder, comfortable engaging with a wide range of stakeholders from delivery teams, to senior business leaders, vendors etc
Operate with autonomy, bringing structure and momentum to delivery without needing heavy hand holding.
Be adept with: Jira / Product / Proactive / Communication / Kanban boards / Confluence
Provide a strong Product Owner skillset
Be versatile across industries, Products / Asquad needs

PRODUCT, PRODUCT OWNER, PRODUCT MANAGER, JIRA, COMMUNICATION, KANBAN, CONFLUENCE, FRAUD

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