We are looking for an experienced and results-oriented Product Owner. The Product Owner will be responsible for owning and shaping a specific Product Domain at Openwork at an early stage of our transformational journey. The role focuses on understanding Openwork's strategic and business requirements and developing the assigned Domain to fulfil those strategies. This includes managing product development, overseeing vendor relationships, and supporting Openwork to develop a competitive digital proposition in the market which meets the needs of advisers and end clients.
The successful candidate will be a highly effective communicator and collaborator, a believer in servant leadership who seeks to empower and give voice to all team members across all disciplines and work with tech and change peers as part of a collaborative “three amigo’s” leadership approach.
The successful candidate will be passionate about the user and show deep empathy with their needs – whether that be advisers, clients or colleagues and believe in the value of advice to clients and be able to inspire teams as to the “why” of Openwork.
This is a hybrid role, 3 days a week in the Swindon office.
The benefits:
- Salary – up to £60,000
- Bonus scheme - on target bonus –10%
- Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection - 1x salary
- Death in service - 4x salary
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
- A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.
Key Accountabilities:
- Manage your specific Domain of the Adviser toolkit, ensuring that it meets the needs of users and remains competitive in the market.
- Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams, to integrate, develop and maintain specified features and capabilities in the Adviser toolkit.
- Act as the primary advocate, for clients and advisers throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring their needs, feedback, and expectations are accurately represented in all decisions.
- Ensure an exceptional user experience and intuitive interface by taking full responsibility for UX/UI outcomes.
- Track and analyse the performance of the Adviser toolkit Domain, including user experience feedback, operational insights, or commercial KPIs related to the relevant Domain.
- Contribute to strategic roadmap for overall Adviser toolkit and own roadmap for specific domain, aligned to the overall strategy, that reflects market trends, adviser needs, and end-client needs.
- Engage with vendors to identify new opportunities for integration, development or enhancement within the relevant Adviser toolkit domain.
- Identify and develop relationship with potential Adviser toolkit vendors and partners.
- Build and maintain relationships with key vendors in the Adviser toolkit Domain, ensure ongoing alignment with the Adviser toolkit's strategy and objectives.