Product Owner - FTC until 30/4/27

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Description

Our Team

The Digital Team develops and evolves UKTV's VoD and digital strategy covering U, digital products, pay platforms and partnerships. We are a growing group of multi-disciplined, talented individuals across several different units: Content Curation, Digital Product, and Production and Development. We're responsible for growing digital audiences, supporting transformative change across UKTV and contributing to UKTV's long-term profitability.

We are focused on delivering functionality that provides key business and user value. In addition to delivering change on time and within budget, the team also support the business to define, prioritise and deliver key strategic technical, commercial and operational activities.

The Digital Products team has responsibility for the strategic road mapping, planning, rollout, and continuous improvement of UKTV's VoD digital products (U), across a range of platforms including web, iOS, Android, and Connected TV devices.We also support key high value initiatives across the UKTV business, working closely with Ad sales, Commercial, Legal, Operations and Marketing functions.

Purpose of the role

It is a truly exciting time to join U as we are embarking on an ambitious multi-year plan to expand U's position in the UK market. A key component of this expansion is the evolution and iterative user focused development of the U digital proposition.

We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to provide support and continuity across the delivery of the U mobile app. The role is pivotal in driving the evolution of the U app and delivery features against the roadmap.

This is a hands-on role, combining day to day engagement primarily with the respective scrum team but also other Product Owners and teams around the business. You will be managing the backlog, running refinement sessions and prioritizing work for your scrum team. The role provides ownership of your product whilst aligning with the business needs and balancing good UI/X principles providing our end users with the best experience possible.

What we would like you to bring to the role....key experience, knowledge, skills & personal qualities

Experience

• 2-5 years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager.
• Proven experience working and delivering digital product features to market.
• Experience delivering to mobile apps both iOS and Android, CTV delivery experience a bonus.
• Experience working in agile environments with scrum teams.
• An obsession with understanding customers' needs and pain points and striving to deliverbetterproduct experience.
• An innate want to take ownership and responsibility that comes with product ownership.

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and Scrum product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence and flow mapping tools.
• Knowledge of AVOD and SVOD services is a plus.
• Knowledge of iOS and Android Market.

What the role entails

• Take full end-to-end Product Ownership for our U app across one of our platforms.
• Fluid in writing user stories with acceptance criteria meeting the definition of done within the scrum team.
• To be comfortable in running refinement sessions with the scrum team ensuring tickets are ready to be prioritized for upcoming sprints.
• Having a good understand of UI/X and putting the customer's needs at the forefront of every decision.
• Actively participate and support, as a Product Owner, all agile ceremonies ensuring a shared understanding of the Product ask across each member of the team.
• Work closely with the engineering team to ensure each build is ready for user release, meetings ACs and passing UAT.
• Working closely with the Head of Digital Products and the Product Owner team to deliver and track against the U app roadmap.

What you will get to work on....key outputs and responsibilities of the role

• Work closely with the scrum team and the other members of the product team to turn strategic goals into actionable product delivery initiatives.
• Ensure the work is delivering value to the end customer whilst meeting business needs and company objectives.

Backlog Ownership and Refinement

• Take full ownership of the product backlog for your respective platform, ensuring items are clearly defined, prioritised and ready for development.
• Break down complex requirements into well-structured epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions, balancing business priorities, technical complexity, and delivery capacity.

Agile Delivery & Scrum Team Collaboration

• Act as the day-to-day Product Owner for one or more Scrum teams, providing clarity, direction, and fast decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with Engineers, QA and UI/X to support sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Participate in UAT and sign off on completed work against defined acceptance criteria, ensuring quality and alignment with user and platform expectations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Alignment

• Serve as the key point of contact between scrum teams and stakeholders, managing expectations and communicating progress, risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate regular feedback loops to ensure solutions meet user needs and evolve based on learnings and technical insights.
• Support effective dependency management across teams to enable smooth and manageable delivery.

Hybrid-Working

At UKTV, we are working in a hybrid environment with a mixture of home and office working. Getting together in the office as a team and a company gives colleagues an opportunity to build and maintain great relationships, encourages our culture of collaboration and creativity while recognising that colleagues need to have a healthy and happy work-life balance. You'll agree with your manager the split of time you spend in the office or at home based on the role that you do, how often you come together as a team and your personal preference.

Diversity & Inclusion Commitment

At UKTV, our inclusion vision is to truly represent society in our workforce and on-screen, and create a culture of fairness and respect where we champion difference so that every person feels included and empowered to do their best work. We are committed to ensuring a level playing field at UKTV where all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunity, and that we have diverse voices at the table in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone and we want UKTV to be a place where you can be your authentic self, give your best and develop your career free from discrimination of any kind.

About UKTV
UKTV has been at the forefront of branded television for over 30 years, entertaining the nation with programmes they love. Its leading brands - U&Dave, U&DRAMA, U&W, U&YESTERDAY, U&GOLD, U&alibi and U&eden - span comedy, entertainment, natural history, factual and drama, and are delivered to UK viewers through free streaming service U, Sky, Virgin Media, NOW, Freeview and Freesat; and to Irish viewers through Sky, Virgin Media, Eir, Vodafone and NOW. Channel & content availability varies by platform. UKTV's content is also available to UK viewers via dedicated FAST channels on Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Freevee, Pluto TV and Virgin Media.

UKTV is a significant investor in British creativity and is committed to working with new and established writers, directors and programme-makers. The broadcaster is part of BBC Studios, the UK's most-awarded production company, a world-class distributor with international branded services, and a commercial subsidiary of the world's leading public service broadcaster, the BBC.