Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Understands product/commercial needs and how these are translated into functional and technical requirements.
- Leads requirements gathering effort based on Product Management input.
- Responsible for writing user stories, acceptance criteria, stocking, grooming and prioritizing backlogs, producing release plans and epic roadmaps, running show and tells and producing release communications and tracking benefits realization.
- Attending all scrum ceremonies.
- Accountable for the timely availability and accuracy of requirements for development projects, ensuring the engineering teams can develop software as efficiently as possible.
- Works with the User Experience department to ensure implemented features match with their user journeys and design.
- Maintains the written 'source of truth': documented user stories recording the agreed requirements of all product owners and stakeholders to enable traceability and re-use.
- Performs change management through product and sprint backlogs as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Keeps Technology management, Delivery Assurance, Product Management well informed of the status of development requirements and scope.
- Communicates and enforces requirements specification standards.
- Understands the dependencies between technology components and how they combine to deliver solutions to the end consumer and to the business.
- Manages cross-team dependencies.
- Consistently creates high-quality well documented, easily sustained deliverables and documentation.
- Understands and balances commercial needs against technical requirements and capabilities.
- Ensures that all solutions meet company-wide, 'hygiene' requirements in terms of non-functional performance, security, compliance, social responsibility.
Key Skills:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, based on a data driven approach;
- Knowledge of techniques for requirements elicitation and specification;
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, drives for simplicity and clarity, able to confidently present and influence senior management;
- Knowledge of A/B testing and product best practices;
- Google Analytics;
- Experience with working with structured project lifecycles;
- Knowledge in Mobile and Desktop product development.
What you can expect:
- 25 days of annual leave;
- Sharesave scheme;
- ”Flexible Benefits” of your choice;
- Private health insurance (includes dental insurance and health assessments);
- Free parking;
- Thousands of courses online through ‘Udemy';
Ways of working:
Flexible working is our way of working! We're a diverse workforce and therefore a 'one size fits all' approach isn't necessarily best. Whatever your personal needs may be, let's have a chat and see how we can accommodate them;
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only the suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview.
By submitting your application online, you agree that: your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record.If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years, in order to consider you for prospective role within the company.
