Product Lead & Product Owner

Job Overview Digital products and technical delivery | 5 to 8 years This role turns business problems into prioritised, testable product work and owns the path from discovery through release. The product lead should make clear decisions, resolve data and scope questions and coordinate stakeholders throughout delivery. Must Have Skills • Proven experience translating business problems into clear product requirements, user stories and measurable outcomes.

• Strong backlog ownership, including prioritisation, dependency management and maintaining delivery-ready work. • Ability to write clear acceptance criteria and establish a practical definition of done. • Experience creating product roadmaps, release plans and phased delivery strategies.

• Ability to understand data models, REST API specifications and system workflows well enough to identify gaps and assumptions. • Ownership of open data questions, including identifying dynamic data, missing fields and required decisions. • Strong UX judgement and the ability to give precise, actionable feedback on designs and working software.

• Ability to balance customer value, user experience, engineering effort, risk and delivery timelines. • Strong stakeholder-management experience across business, sales, support, engineering, design and external partners. • Experience planning and leading user acceptance testing, managing defect triage and securing business sign-off.

• Experience planning product rollouts, migrations and release commun