Lead Product Owner
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Lead Product Owner driving product strategy at Employment Hero. Leading a team of Product Owners to deliver impactful outcomes in a remote setup.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of Product Owners to ensure high-quality delivery and career growth.
- Support your team in refining their backlogs, stakeholder engagement, and agile practices.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performing product culture grounded in user-centric thinking and delivery excellence.
- Partner with Product Managers to align team efforts to overarching product strategy and OKRs.
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of strategic product initiatives from concept to launch and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate on the development of product vision and roadmap in your domain, adapting to constraints without losing sight of long-term goals.
- Identify opportunities for optimisation and growth based on business priorities, competitor analysis, customer research and performance data.
- Break down complex problems using structured thinking and frameworks.
- Undertake product discovery, synthesising customer feedback, defining clear KPIs, and validating solutions through a hypothesis-driven approach. Translates insights into a coherent, data-informed roadmap.
- Ensure your team’s backlogs are well-groomed, prioritised, and aligned with cross-functional goals.
- Balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
- Champion data-driven decision-making to support roadmap prioritisation and product iteration.
- Work with Product Designers to ensure we deliver best-in-class, user-friendly experiences.
- Collaborate closely with Engineers, Architects, and QA to ensure solution feasibility, technical alignment, and quality delivery.
- Support cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Professional Services to ensure successful product launches and adoption.
- Be a trusted voice of the customer, clearly articulating needs and priorities to diverse stakeholders.
- Share regular updates with stakeholders at all levels, including presenting at leadership meetings and company-wide forums.
- Create clarity for your team and stakeholders by translating complex ideas into actionable plans.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate qualifications in Business Systems, IT, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (eg, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics) preferred.
- 4+ years of product experience, including at least 1 year in a senior/leadership Product Owner or equivalent role.
- Proven experience coaching or leading others in an agile product development environment.
- Strong analytical and prioritisation skills, using data and insights to drive decision-making.
- Experience working cross-functionally in fast-paced, agile SaaS businesses would be an advantage.
- Confidence navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems, and influencing without authority.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – you’re a natural storyteller and connector.
- Bonus points for experience working with big data or platform-scale products.
Benefits:
- You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
- You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
- You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
- You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
- You’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits that includes - a very generous paternity leave policy, subsidised egg freezing (so you can make the choice that’s right for you, on your terms), a WFH office expense budget, and outstanding learning & development opportunities
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