Product Owner

We're seeking an accomplished Business Analyst or Product Owner to join Chambers as a Platform Product Owner.

This role entails full-cycle delivery, demanding adept stakeholder management skills and the capacity to handle various workstreams efficiently and swiftly.

You'll be responsible for shaping and implementing the strategy, roadmap, and backlog for Chambers platforms and services within your Research domain. This involves capturing and scrutinising requirements, pinpointing efficiency opportunities, offering thought leadership, fostering challenges, and ensuring that business processes yield the desired outcomes for both our end-user products and corporate goals.

As the owner, you'll be entrusted with the holistic strategy and execution of a platform, application, or project.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define, own and execute the strategy and roadmap for Chambers business applications in your domain/remit to support the business vision. Ensure benefits are clearly understood and specific KPIs and outputs defined and delivered to
• Foster and maintain exceptional stakeholder relationships, both with the business and technology, supported by exceptional communication. Be truly trusted.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrable experience working in a research domain, as a product/platform owner, business analyst or research analyst
• Be a subject matter expert within research, with deep knowledge of processes and tools.
• Experience in usage and rolling out AI into Business Platforms
• Demonstrable experience creating and managing backlogs to meet strategic objectives
• Articulate, able to create concise requirements, epics, stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure an effective understanding of business and product priorities, adapting recommendations/opportunities to meet that strategy
• Understand and champions agile ways of working
• Prioritisation skills to handle fast paced dynamic environment
• Data literate, understanding how data can be structured and manipulated to enhance the customer proposition
• Technically astute, with a good knowledge of engineering processes and frameworks. Able to constructively challenge at a technical design level. Demonstrates self-development in this area.

Experience in a number of the following research areas:

• Content mgmt. systems or publishing workflows
• Search & matching platforms
• Data collection platforms (Interview / Survey platforms etc)
• Research processes and interview preparation
• Research strategy

Person Specification

• Passionate about business processes, applications and technologies
• Provides thought leadership in the specialist business domain
• Constructively challenges convention and seeks new ways of achieving better results
• Demonstrates sound and pragmatic judgement, balancing pace, risk and business value to reach decisions and deliver solutions
• Is Customer and data centric in approach
• Proactive self-starter who continuously seeks ways to improve
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to communicate complex subjects, ‘sell’ ideas, and drive consensus in meetings, workshops and 1-1 interactions.
• Attention to detail, focused on the finer details that make the difference.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering and promoting an inclusive professional environment for all of our employees, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are integral values of Chambers and Partners and are key in our culture. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. This commitment applies across all of our employment policies and practices, from recruiting and hiring to training and career development. We support our employees through our internal INSPIRE committee with Executive Sponsors, Chairs and Ambassadors throughout the business promoting knowledge and effecting change.