Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner – FTC 6 months

Are you a visionary, dynamic, data-driven Senior Product Owner ready to develop our portfolio

of Global Player features? If so, this role is for you.

Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and

expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web, on TV, in car and on smart speakers.

As a Senior Product Owner at Global, you will work with your own cross-functional squad to

deliver new features and functionality to support the business in achieving its ambitious goals, as

well as acting as a coach to other members of the team, developing junior talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy (40%): Develop a product strategy for your product area, own significant parts

of the product roadmap and communicate priorities, establish success metrics and

facilitate meetings and workshops with individuals or groups across the business.

• Delivery (30%): Analyse high-level business requirements in the roadmap, assess

implementation options, communicate the vision clearly to the business and own the

product backlog and prioritisation while meeting the business needs and aligning with

other squads.

• Day-to-day (30%): Work closely with the development and design teams, ensure all

releases are thoroughly tested and delivered to the highest quality, be the voice of the

user by sharing customer feedback and educate the team on and drive adoption of

industry best practices.

What You’ll Love About This Role

Think Big: You’ll drive strategy for products that are used and loved by millions of people.

Own It: You’ll have the authority to identify, suggest and implement initiatives, turning

your ideas into product features.

Keep it Simple: Think strategically and execute methodically while having lots of fun

doing it.

Better Together: Collaborate with a dynamic team on products that span all of our

amazing platforms.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few weeks, you’ll have:

• Fully understood the goals of the Global Player team and how these support Global’s

strategy and objectives.

• Gained a detailed understanding of the workings of Global’s business across our Radio,

Commercial and Digital divisions.

• Established strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business.

• Taken ownership of, and aligned, your team’s OKRs ensuring delivery against them

• Established a roadmap for the upcoming quarters.

• Released features across iOS, Android and web products.

What You’ll Need

• Experience working in a SCRUM / Agile environment.

• Experience with Product & Technology Roadmap development through the influence of

key business and technology stakeholders to identify business priorities.

• Ability to innovate and think independently.

• Comfortable working at pace and managing competing and changing priorities.

• High level of emotional intelligence; ability to understand different priorities and

perspectives.

• Willingness to collaborate and coach; ability to educate and influence.

• Minimum 5 year’s experience as a Product Owner.

Creating A Place We All Belong at Global

We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented, amplified and

celebrated. We know that we can’t serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our

people, which is why we’re passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every

Globaller can belong. So, no matter who you are or where you are from, you can find your

place at Global.

As a business, we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a

flexible and agile workforce. Therefore, we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us

to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process, drop us an email at

[email protected], we’ll be happy to help.