Product Owner

Salary

£40,000-60,000 p.a.

Benefits

• Company pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave
• Flexible, home-based working environment
• Staff Share Scheme

About Placecube

Placecube was born in 2019 through a merger of two small well established organisations to bring the Digital Place product family to market. Built on a foundation of 17 years of software development, systems integration and social collaboration platform delivery for public sector organisations specialising in local services, knowledge collaboration and secure information exchange.

Placecube provides the public sector with the affordable, accessible and transformational benefits of digitally re-usable ‘great public services’ –  designed by the public sector for the public sector. Re-using high quality code, services and designs that have already been paid for, and which have been extensively tested and proven by councils and wider government.

Focused on open source technologies, Placecube offers clients a new style of partnership based on the co-creation and re-use of well-designed digital services that demonstrate local place leadership, growing a connected ‘Digital Place’ ecosystem that enables our clients to operate their own platform. We work collaboratively, ensuring that our clients never pay twice for the same development. We differentiate ourselves through our actions and behaviours, living by the core principles that we’ve defined to ‘Do the right thing’.

Our support, tools and services help clients to accelerate the development of a new generation of place-based digital services that make it simple to connect citizens and communities at the front-end and integrate complex systems at the back-end, reducing the administrative burden, unnecessary procedural waste and creating great digital experiences that users prefer.

Foster collaboration in multi-disciplinary team

Our people are at the heart of our 17 years of success. Our values focus on being helpful and doing the right thing, providing knowledge and support to those around you. This means you’ll be:

• Partnering with the wider product team to create an agile, but focused strategic direction
• Building a strong culture of learning within your team, providing feedback to continuously improve the way we work together
• Working closely with the other functions of the business to share knowledge, learnings and insights

About the Product Owner Role

The primary responsibility of the Product Owner will be to represent the voice of the customer, understanding user needs, gathering product requirements and communicating them to the dev team by writing value driven user stories, with a relentless focus on delivering the best outcomes for our customers. You will play a part in prioritising the product backlog for each sprint, regularly refining stories with both customers and the development team.

This role offers an excellent level of challenge to a Product Owner with 3-5 years experience, working within a Product Management team keen to support you on your journey to more senior roles over time.