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Product Owner
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Product Owner
Product Owner
Location: UK-London Worker Type: Permanent Corporate Grade: D - Assistant Vice President Reporting Line: (UK Division) Trading & COO Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Overall Purpose of Role:
You will join the product team at the core of delivering high quality, innovative and relevant solutions to the LME with the purpose of:
- In conjunction with the business owner, sets the product vision, objectives and outcomes
- Accountable for maximizing the value of the product, the delivery of the product goal and product backlog
- Represent the needs of the many stakeholders across LME and LME Clear
- Has the mandate to make business decisions where impact is contained within the product
- Owns the product backlog prioritisation and sequencing, ensuring the team implements the right requirements
- Accountable for all stages of the delivery
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Business Owner and Service Owner and other stakeholders to define the roadmap with the key product goals and objectives needed to deliver the solution. Build and maintain a healthy backlog
- Constantly manage priorities to ensure work is focused, with effective management and refinement of the product backlog
- Provide vision and direction to the delivery teams; ensure that the team always has a healthy backlog of work
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Ensure scope is always clear and understood and support teams to elaborate and break-down features
- Lead the scoping of product releases; set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Evaluate the work generated by the delivery teams against Acceptance Criteria and desired outcomes
- Collaborate and coordinate with other Product Owners as applicable
- Manage stakeholders
- Create user stories, epics, and features and acceptance criteria
- Gathering requirements and writing high level requirements
- Key participant in Sprint Planning and agreeing content for each Sprint
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Desirable Academic and Professional Qualifications Required:
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- Agile Leadership Training
- CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) – Product Owner Certification
- PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) preferable not essential
Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:
- Experience working as a Product Owner / Product Manager
- Experience working in an exchange or financial organization desirable
- Sound knowledge in IT, management, and agile software development.
- Experience of using agile methods and frameworks e.g. Scrum, Kanban and Lean as a minimum
The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.
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