Product Owner (12 month maternity contract)
Location: Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Ballymena HQ, Co Antrim.
Contract type: 12 month fixed term contract. 40 hrs per week, Mon - Fri.
Sitting within our talented and experienced Technology team, our Product Owner will work within our dedicated stream-aligned teams. Product Owners work closely with various stakeholders to ensure our product offerings meet the needs of our customers and prospects in line with our strategic roadmap.
You will actively participate in meetings with our customers in multiple regions, working closely with the customer success team to understand customer needs.
We pride ourselves on delivering world class solutions to our clients to ensure product releases are delivered to the very best quality.
You will be a key member of the team as we continue to embark on producing the next generation of our product set providing significant enhancements for our global customers.
What you will do :
- Collaborate with product owners to understand product vision and requirements, ensuring the team’s work aligns with company goals.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment that encourages innovation and continuous improvement.
- Manage the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions through rigorous QA processes and adherence to best practices.
- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote coding standards and best practices within the team.
- Monitor team performance, provide regular feedback, and conduct team appraisals.
- Facilitate problem-solving and conflict resolution within the team.
- Stay up to date with the latest technology trends and advancements to drive innovation within the team and the broader organisation.
What we are looking for :
- 2 years experience working in a product owner/product manager role
- Proven track record of stakeholder management experience
- Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., JIRA)
- Commercial acumen
Desirable Experience -Its not a deal breaker, but ideally you will have:
- Experience working in software development team
Why should you join PlotBox ?
- We have a clear mission - and a sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives; this means a lot to our team.
- We are a global company with over 120 colleagues based across the UK, Australia and North America. You’ll undoubtedly broaden your understanding and appreciation of global operations.
- We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset.
- We are proud that, since 2020, we have received our Great Place to Work® Certification™ - our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox.
- We have also been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Development™ 2024 - we invest in employee growth; we nurture every career.
- We are a truly diverse and inclusive workplace; we are proud to boast 43% femalé representation - which is almost double the average within the tech industry and helped put us on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women listing in 2023
- Our focus on wellbeing and a supportive culture has seen us ranked on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing list (2023)
- One of our core values is trust; you are trusted to do your job without someone micro-managing - we expect people to give their best efforts in return
Life at PlotBox - we appreciate that we may not be the right workplace for everyone, so below we have laid out what life at Plotbox is really like so you can decide if a career at PlotBox is for you !
- We are a growing / scaling company - as such we don't always have everything neatly mapped out so you have to be comfortable with ambiguity sometimes
- A 40 hour working week and flexible working hours. We ask everyone to be in the office during our core hours from 10-4pm meaning you can balance your work hours around life’s commitments.
- Hybrid working - for most roles, our staff work 2 days per week in the office and we love the opportunity it gives us to collaborate face to face.
- We believe in continuous improvement - so that can mean change is a pretty constant thing for us - we need our people to embrace change as opposed to resisting it
- We believe feedback is crucial to development so we will create a safe environment where you can take onboard feedback and use it to improve - but we can't force you to take the feedback on board; that's your choice
- We will support and nurture you - but we need you to show initiative, be able to tackle problems, roll with the challenges and get stuff done
- There is no room for ego round here - everyone is here because they bring something to the table - all voices are heard and respected
- We support our employees’ health and wellbeing with regular wellbeing initiatives and a health cash plan, access to EAP and additional counselling support
- Our life assurance policy ensures your loved ones are looked after should the worst happen *
- Our flexible benefits suite allows you to flex-up (or down) on on benefits depending on what is most useful to you and your family at the time
- Career mobility and progression which is based on merit as opposed to ‘time-served’ as well as the opportunity to travel to our global sites and visit customers when they need us on the ground.
- Active social and charity committee - lots of social events throughout the year including a summer social, Christmas party, Easter events, quizzes, book club, walking groups, coffee mornings and many many more.
- We offer Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership if that’s your thing!
- Quirky office set on a beautiful nature reserve with fully-stocked fridges and larders
- Free parking too!
PlotBox is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic that makes you who you are.. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
If you require any reasonable adjustment or wish to speak to a member of our Talent team about tailoring the recruitment process to your needs please email careers@plotblox.io stating the role you are applying for.
