Product Owner

Salary: £12,000 - 16,000 per year

Requirements

• Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, or similar role within software delivery
• Strong experience working with software engineering and QA teams
• Excellent backlog management and requirements analysis skills
• Ability to write clear, precise, and testable user stories and acceptance criteria
• Strong stakeholder communication and facilitation skills
• Comfortable operating in complex, rules-driven, or regulated environments
• Pragmatic understanding of agile delivery practices
• Experience using AI tools to support product ownership, analysis, delivery, or documentation workflows
• Ability to challenge ambiguity and drive clarity across stakeholders and teams
• Experience within pensions, financial services, insurance, or other regulated sectors is desirable
• Experience with rules-based, workflow-driven, or calculation-heavy systems is desirable
• Familiarity with BDD, Gherkin, specification-by-example, or structured acceptance testing is desirable
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub Issues, Linear, Confluence, or Notion is desirable
• Exposure to AI coding assistants, AI-assisted QA, or agentic software delivery workflows is desirable
• Understanding of auditability, traceability, and high-consequence business logic is desirable

Responsibilities

• Own and manage a prioritised product backlog aligned to delivery goals
• Translate complex business requirements into structured, testable user stories
• Define acceptance criteria, business rules, assumptions, examples, and edge cases
• Ensure stories are sufficiently refined before sprint commitment
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and delivery coordination
• Track delivery progress, blockers, dependencies, and risks
• Work closely with engineering and QA teams to ensure work is buildable, testable, and clearly understood
• Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, refinement, documentation, and scenario generation
• Critically review AI-generated outputs to ensure depth, accuracy, and domain quality
• Help define standards and readiness practices for AI-assisted delivery workflows
• Support stakeholder communication, demos, and delivery reporting

Technologies

• AI
• Azure
• Confluence
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Support
• JIRA
• Product Manager
• Product Owner
• Cloud

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We are seeking a Senior Product Owner to join our small, high-performing software delivery team in a fully remote role. We operate within a complex, regulated environment and our engineering teams are heavily AI-enabled, using AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, and QA. This is a hands-on role focused on shaping requirements, reducing ambiguity, improving story quality, coordinating sprint delivery, and helping evolve AI-assisted product and delivery practices across the team. The position is outside IR35 with a day rate of £750 to £800.

last updated 21 week of 2026