Senior Product Owner

Central Bristol (hybrid)

🚀 The Giant Minds of Software

We're a bespoke software development house with brilliant talent, proudly based in central Bristol. Working across different sectors and with the latest technology, we deliver exceptional software engineering through high-quality bespoke projects, helping technically ambitious companies meet their business goals.

We're purpose-driven but ambitious too, and you'd be joining us at a really exciting stage of growth.

📍 Central Bristol, hybrid | 💰 £61,700 to £67,100 + 8% non-contributory pension + profit share

The role:
As a Senior Product Owner, you'll own the product side of two or three client projects at once. Each project has a small team: you, a Project Manager, a Tech Lead, a few developers, plus our QA and Design people. The Project Manager looks after delivery, timescales and commercials, so your focus is the product itself.

You'll sit with the client, work out what they actually need rather than what they've asked for, and shape it into work the team can build. You're involved from the first discovery workshop through to release and beyond, and you're the client's main contact on product.

You'll play a key role by:

Leading discovery workshops and conversations to uncover what users and stakeholders really need
Making sure what we build lines up with the client's business case, and pushing back when the brief isn't what they really need
Shaping the solution with the client and team, and breaking it into epics and stories that are clear, complete and ready to build
Owning and prioritising the backlog across your projects, so the team always has good work ready to pick up
Managing specification sign-off and change, working with the Project Manager on the impact to timescales and cost
Building quick prototypes with AI tools to bring ideas to life and get client feedback early
Driving solution scoping in pre-sales, leading conversations with new and existing clients and shaping proposals and estimates with our sales team
Helping grow our product practice, sharing approaches and supporting less experienced POs

You should apply if:

You've got 5+ years in product ownership, product management or a closely related role like BA, within agile software delivery
You think about the strategy and the business case, not just delivering the backlog
You get to the real need behind a brief, and you're confident telling a client when what they asked for isn't what they need
You're thorough and detail-minded with a backlog, and you handle change properly