Data Product Owner
Why our role
Data is key to delivering our strategy. Since 2021, we’ve been on a journey to modernize our data infrastructure and related capabilities, allowing us to consolidate our data estate, to shorten and simplify internal processes, and to better share data and insight within the organisation.
After a period of migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Braze and Tableau, we now collect more customer journey data. The plan is to use this data to drive more efficient and focused marketing campaigns, to improve our analytics and algorithms at scale, and to introduce more self-service tools!
To do this, we are looking for a Data Product Owner, to support the GCP Engineering platform team, which is made up of three smaller teams. This is a hybrid role, and involves handling day-to-day in-team delivery, prioritising the most important to be done first, and being the voice of the users when building back-end products.
What will you be doing?
- Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups, coaching team members in Agile frameworks
- Ensure sprints align with the roadmaps, resolving any ambiguity around requirements, attaining clear consensus, and keeping everybody updated about changes and amendments
- Be the point of contact for external communications with stakeholders, protecting the team from unnecessary distraction
- Build relationships with finance, compliance, marketing, and product & tech functions to understand business goals and user needs, translating them into requirements, epics and stories.
- Zoom out of the day-to-day to collaborate with Head of Engineering and Engineering Leads in creating roadmaps for high-impact longer-term initiatives
What to expect from our interview process:
Our Data interview processes are generally 3 stages:
- Screening call with Chess (recruiter) - 30 mins
- Video interview with Ada (Hiring Manager) and another colleague - 45 mins
- Case study based interview with Ada and other colleagues - 90 mins
What do we need from you?
- Proven track record to embed Agile and to encourage the team to be self-sufficient, with a servant leader mentality
- Proven knowledge of Scrum/ Agile methodology and artifacts
- Ability to understand what users want vs need, and to how capture clear requirements
- Deep knowledge of various prioritisation frameworks, using them to build roadmaps, and to communicate the “what” and “why”
- Ability to analyse and distill sophisticated problems, making clear decisions backed by evidence
- Proven success working in a very fast-paced environment and to dealing with changes, balancing short-term requests vs longer-term strategy
- Resilience if priorities change, and timely communication to share with the team
- Experience around applying data security, data protection and GDPR pragmatically into what we build
We're an inclusive, anti-racist and equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This means we respect and embrace differences in gender identity, race, ethnic origin, sexual expression and orientation, religion and faith, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, social background, education and way of thinking. We’re a place where you can be you.
Our customers and users come from different backgrounds, as do our colleagues. We welcome applications from everyone, and particularly encourage women and Black, Asian and ethnic minority candidates to apply as we’re actively building representation that’s more closely reflective of the communities we serve. Our appointments are made on merit, following a robust and objective assessment process, and the candidate with the highest score is offered the role. If you’re passionate about our purpose of helping households save money and excited about what you could accomplish here, we’d love to hear from you.
We understand that job adverts only say so much and you’re likely to have a lot of questions. If you’d like to know anything before applying such as more on the location, salary, our parental leave policy etc, please just let us know, and we’ll be happy to help. You can contact the recruiter for this role, Francesca at francesca.crossley@moneysupermarket.com
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