Product Owner

We run a small but perfectly formed delivery team at Ecotricity. Between our Project managers and Product Owners we're responsible for leading the delivery of the technology and associated business change here at Ecotricity.

We have vacancy for a product owner to pair up with one of delivery teams and support the optimisation of one our platforms.

The success of our entire business relies on digital channels and a self-service first model. The energy industry is complex though and many systems and services must be integrated to create journeys that support our customers' needs. We're building these journeys that also allow our contact centre agents to fully support our customers and plug the gaps where self-service isn't possible.

Responsibilities

• Managing the build and continuous delivery of awesome software experiences that improve performance of our platforms


• Managing stakeholders through steering, agile ceremonies, stand-ups and workshops


• Run requirement gathering workshops with internal and external stakeholders.


• Continuous monitoring of product-related technical debt, working alongside the developers to ensure that sprints have an appropriate mix of new functionality, fixes and on demands changes


• Management of Product Backlog and prioritising requirements based on the business goals


• Development of User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Epics


• Strong business case and cost benefit analysis skills


Key Relationships

• Senior Business Stakeholders.


• UX Team


• Development teams


• QA Team
  
  Knowledge and skills


• Heavyweight digital product owner experience


• Stakeholder management and facilitation of decisions of all sizes


• Technical resource management


• Project Manager collaboration


• Management of Product Backlog


• Development of User Stories


• Sprint planning and tracking


• Senior presentation skills (c-suite)


• Risk and issue management


• Agile project estimation using story pointing and velocity reporting


• Project financial modelling


Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of having delivered brilliant digital products and services


• Strong Jira experience including story pointing and velocity tracking


• Attention to detail, methodical approach


• First-rate written and verbal communication


• Proven personal development, self-management and a desire to be brilliant


• Clear and concise relaying of ideas and concepts


• Passionate about UX and previous involvement in creative UX builds


• strong user story writing experience using, gherkin/cucumber format and providing acceptance criteria


• Experience & confidence in public speaking


Advantageous

• Digital agency experience


• Atlassian 'Confluence' tool experience


• Experience of working with both front-end and backend tech teams to deliver projects


• Knowledge of sustainability issues and a passion to fix them using technology


• Product Owner (certified)


• Recent experience in the Energy industry
  
  What's in it for you...


Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent


• Additional leave


• Casual dress


• Company events


• Company pension


• Cycle to work scheme


• Employee discount


• Enhanced maternity leave


• Enhanced paternity leave


• Free parking


• Health & wellbeing programme


• Life insurance


• On-site parking


• Paid volunteer time


• Referral programme


• Sick pay


• Store discount


Schedule:

• Monday to Friday


Application question(s):

• Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?


• Ecotricity offers hybrid working- are you able to reliably commute to Stroud 2/3 days per week?


Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)