Job Title: Product Owner x 2

Salary: £33,000 - £43,400 per annum

Location: Cambridge and Hybrid working

Contract: 1 Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week) and 1 Fixed term contract (12 months), Full time (35 hours per week)

Join us as a Product Owner, where you will bridge the gap between business and technology, driving impactful change by prioritising stakeholder needs and leading agile teams to deliver high-quality solutions. If you are passionate about user-centred design, strategic problem-solving, and thriving in a collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role 

As a Product Owner, you will work closely with Business Owners to prioritise and maintain the product backlog for CAIE, ensuring it reflects the needs of key stakeholders and supports the delivery team's goals. You will lead agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, and participate in steering and workgroup meetings as needed. Serving as the primary liaison, you will bridge communication between the development team and business stakeholders, keeping customer needs at the forefront of every update and change.

Developing a comprehensive understanding of platform functionality, product capabilities, and business dependencies is essential, enabling you to ensure that technical solutions align with release objectives, business requirements, and quality standards. You will write and prioritise user stories, define acceptance criteria, manage and prioritise defects, and collaborate closely with the testing team to ensure changes adhere to best practices.

Regular monitoring of progress and strategic risk management are key as you drive business change initiatives and support system adoption, bringing your problem-solving skills, adaptability, and strong communication abilities into each project phase.

About you

As someone driven by problem-solving, you excel in translating complex business needs into actionable technology requirements, adapting effectively to agile and waterfall environments.

You bring a passion for web technology, data-driven insights, and user-centred design. As a skilled communicator, you present ideas clearly and can use varied methods to connect with and influence customers, users, and stakeholders at all levels. Proactive and analytical, you make sound recommendations on backlog prioritisation, resource allocation, and task feasibility. Your technical acumen extends to tools like JIRA, SharePoint, and web analytics, along with a solid understanding of structured development methodologies, helping ensure that the product meets the evolving needs of the Cambridge International ecosystem.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. 

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 1^st December and we reserve the right to close the campaign earlier if enough suitable candidates are identified. Please don't delay submitting your application. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 2^nd December 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. 

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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