City of London
Product Owner London (Hybrid – 2 Days Onsite) Contract Type: 6-Month Contract Rate: £650/day (Inside IR35) Role Overview The Product Owner is accountable for delivering customer value by defining and prioritizing product features and user stories, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring the product aligns with strategic goals and customer needs. This role will oversee the delivery of a strategic solution from early-stage design through to service management and post–go-live support. The Product Owner will hold the vision for the solution, enabling the development team to deliver to tight timescales while ensuring impact across broader stakeholder groups. They will also act as a key driver of industry change and serve as the primary point of contact for programme-level engagement. Key Responsibilities • Manage product backlogs, make critical prioritization decisions, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver successful products aligned with organizational services and value streams, • Lead and support within existing governance structures to ensure delivery accountability, • Align and communicate effectively with stakeholders, working closely with Programme Managers, • Apply best practices in managing risks, blockers, dependencies, and business impacts related to implementation, • Own and manage product roadmaps and backlogs, prioritizing defects, features, and technical debt in line with service needs, industry changes, and strategic objectives, • Develop and maintain business cases that follow governance standards and demonstrate expected outcomes and benefits, including benefit realization planning, • Manage stakeholder relationships across internal and external parties, including service owners, industry participants, and regulatory bodies, • Collaborate with product delivery teams and lead Agile ceremonies where appropriate, • Define and own the product vision and strategy, accounting for cross-product dependencies, • Contribute to organizational product strategy through knowledge sharing, common practices, and community building, • Ensure best practice documentation of Epics, Features, and User Stories using Azure DevOps, • Drive continuous improvement in delivery team velocity and efficiency, • Ensure accuracy in sizing of Epics (ROM estimates) and Features, • Continuously develop product knowledge, customer use cases, and value realization strategies, • Plan, schedule, and deliver solutions while enabling teams to meet change objectives through transparent stakeholder engagement, • Create and maintain tools and ceremonies that provide clear visibility of progress against commitments Ideal Candidate Profile • Proven experience as a Product Owner in a complex, fast-paced environment, • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and delivery frameworks, • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, • Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps), • Ability to manage competing priorities and drive strategic outcomes, • Comfortable working across technical and business domains, • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, • Experience in benefit realization and business case development