Job Description
Role Overview The Product Owner - Project Alignment sits at the centre of Product Owner & Project Management communication, supporting effective project execution. This role operates with a deliberate 50/50 split: half the time, you are embedded alongside Project Managers bringing product development updates and issues to their attention, the other half, you are the expert on everything that's going on with our projects, ensuring Product Owners know ongoing priorities. What You Will Do Regularly retrieve open issues, blockers, and escalations from Project Managers, translate Project Management issues into product-relevant language, reframing delivery concerns so Product Owners can make informed decisions quickly, track resolution of translated issues and close the loop with the Project Management once action has been taken, identify systemic issues (not one-offs) and bring them to the Group Product Manager with a recommended path forward. Why It Might Be a Fit You are a generalist that enjoys operating in two modes: communicate to product owners and developers one moment, project support the next - and find the context-switching energizing rather than draining, get satisfaction from helping Project Managers succeed: highlight issues in an open, transparent manner, and work toward mitigation, push back well: you'd rather have the hard conversation now than the much harder one six months in. Requirements 3+ years as a Product Owner, Project Manager, or equivalent (BA with PO scope, Solution Consultant, Technical Product Manager) in B2B, with personal experience producing project documentation and working with development teams Experience operating across both Product and Project Management contexts — you understand how PMs and POs think, and operate credibly in both Estimation discipline — you understand order-of-magnitude vs committed estimates, and can defend an estimate under pressure Strong stakeholder management — you lead rooms with mixed business and technical
