Product Owner

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for candidates with experience working as a Product Owner in a SAFe or scaled Agile environment.
• We are looking for strong backlog management and user story writing skills.
• We are looking for experience delivering data or analytics products.
• We are looking for the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• We are looking for strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• We are looking for an understanding of value-driven delivery and outcome measurement.
• Desirable: experience in Higher Education or complex public sector environments.
• Desirable: knowledge of data platforms, data governance, and reporting tools.
• Desirable: familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Desirable: SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) certification.

Responsibilities:

• We own and manage the Team Backlog, ensuring it is prioritised based on value, risk, and strategic alignment.
• We translate Features into well-defined User Stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• We ensure every story links to a Feature outcome and contributes to measurable value using the ROCKETS framework.
• We continuously refine and prioritise work based on feedback, data, and learning.
• We act as the primary interface between Product Management, Business Owners, and Agile Teams.
• We collaborate with stakeholders across faculties and professional services to understand data needs.
• We ensure alignment between business priorities and technical delivery.
• We communicate progress, risks, and value delivered to stakeholders.
• We actively contribute to PI Planning, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, System Demos, and Inspect & Adapt.
• We support the team in delivering committed PI Objectives.
• We provide clarity on priorities and accept or reject completed stories.
• We define and prioritise requirements for data products.
• We ensure data solutions are aligned to enterprise data architecture, governance, and compliance standards.
• We work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Architects to ensure feasible and sustainable solutions.
• We define success criteria and outcome metrics for Features and Stories.
• We track value through outcomes, adoption, behaviour change, and cost versus benefit.
• We contribute to quarterly value reporting aligned to ROCKETS.
• We promote a test-and-learn mindset, supporting MVP delivery and iterative development.
• We participate in Inspect & Adapt workshops to improve flow and outcomes.
• We identify opportunities to reduce waste, duplication, and inefficiencies across data products.

Technologies:

• AI
• Azure
• DevOps
• Flow
• Support
• Product Manager
• Product Owner
• Cloud

More:

We are Kings College London, an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research, with more than 33,000 students from over 190 countries. This role sits within our IT Digital Solutions Directorate and the Data Solutions team, where we are building the next-generation data platform to support analytics, integration, and AI across the university. You will work in a collaborative, agile environment with architects, engineers, analysts, and stakeholders, helping to shape how we use data to drive insight, innovation, and impact. This is a full-time role of 35 hours per week on an indefinite contract, with a salary of £53,149 - £62,422 per annum including London Weighting Allowance.

last updated 35 week of 2026