Role Purpose

The Product Owner manages the interface to the IoT Line of Business (LOB) and, in particular, to the Business Product Manager associated with your products, platform and developments. Responsible for the ?how?, ensuring they support the Line Of Business product manager (accountable for the ?what?) to build the product roadmap, advising mandatory technology capabilities, progressing impact assessments and agreeing on behalf of the practice that the final prioritized roadmap is viable from a technology, cost and delivery perspective.

This role also includes will be assigned to one or more products, and their value-streams, for product development with the focus of this role on Billing Services including our Global IoT Bill Presentment and Billing Services to support the future growth of Vodafone IoT. You will be a leading point managing the Technology IoT Strategy for this service. It will be necessary to negotiate, manage and agree demand from Vodafone Business into the Vodafone Business Product and Services IoT Practice and wider technology/service teams whilst managing the backlog, finance and operational governance.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage the interface between the IoT Practice and the LoB Product Manager(s);
• Create the Technology Strategy, Plan and requirements to inform, then deliver, the Product/Platform Strategy, Roadmap and features;
• Interlock overall product, platform costs, budget and demands on the Practice with LoB Product manager, Pre-Sales, LPM, Finance and through governance;
• Progress new demands into impact assessment working with LPM. Agree on behalf of the practice that the LoB prioritised roadmap is viable from a technology, delivery and cost perspective;
• Manage the output and budgets through governance agreeing value streams, EPICs, capabilities and sequence these into NPD;
• Translate the product features and requirements into buildable, lower level requirements working with the squad leaders and architects to feed into the design/dev/eng teams);
• Manage local market integration and interface for product developments;
• Ensure that new technology/vendor selection decisions meet the product requirements including features, unit costs, service models, CX, SLAs, roadmaps;
• Responsible for compliance of all products & solutions to Cyber & Corporate Security;
• Coordinate a team of Technology Product Owners that will support and own different products as part of your Value Streams.

Ideal Background

• Bachelor?s or master?s degree in Engineering or similar;
• Agile product development experience (e.g. SAFe, Spotify, Scrum) and qualifications;
• Experience with Office and Collaboration apps, also product development tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence);
• Strong understanding of Billing products and technology under your responsibility ? not as deep a technology understanding is required as a domain or solution architect;
• Brings a balance of customer, business and technology understanding to relate technology solutions to product outcomes;
• Ability to build E2E technology plans specific to products and platforms;
• Roll out and manage in-life vendor cost and service performance specific to products Budget management and performance;
• Experience building technical specifications for products and in turn user stories, service models, in conjunction with business and technology teams;
• Working knowledge of data privacy and security by default and by design principles and alignment to Information Security frameworks.