Junior Product Owner
Are you as bright as a button?
Reporting To: Product Manager - Remote Monitoring
Location: Surrey / Remote
Overview:
At Graphnet, we partner with the NHS to transform care across the UK through cutting-edge health technology, data and analytics. We work hard to develop impactful solutions that enhance the health and care of diverse communities through shared care records, remote monitoring and population health.
We are on the lookout for a proactive Junior Product Owner to bolster our remote monitoring team. You will play a crucial role in the ongoing design and delivery of our Docobo product. Our remote monitoring solution, Docobo, is a telehealth market leader in the UK, dedicated to improving patient outcomes through accessible digital solutions.
In this position, you will work closely with Product Management to refine our roadmap and backlog. You’ll also collaborate with our development teams to ensure continuous delivery and become the go-to person for product-related queries. As a Junior Product Owner, you’ll be right at the heart of our mission, helping to evolve our products and make a real difference in how care is delivered.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Product Mastery: Develop a deep understanding of your areas within our product to become one of the “go-to” experts for product questions, planning and to guide priorities.
- Backlog Management: Collaborate with existing Product Owners and your Agile team to maintain a well-prioritised and defined development backlog. Responsibilities include:
o Hold regular backlog refinement sessions and continuously maintain the backlog prioritise to support sprint planning.
o Act as gatekeeper to accepting and prioritising new requirements onto the backlog to help the team maintain focus.
o Supporting the breakdown of EPICs and Features into sprint-friendly User Stories.
o Ensure there are sufficient requirements and design for features to enable the team to progress the work. - Planning and Delivery: Work with the Agile Team to ensure all backlog items are estimated accurately, learn to lead sprint planning sessions, track the progress of sprints and product development, working with your team to address any impediments, and adjust plans as necessary to ensure timely delivery of product features. Drive the ongoing design, development, and delivery of the product ensuring it meets key customer and business needs.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engage with various teams across Graphnet to drive the ongoing design, development and delivery of the product. Help ensure timely and high-quality product delivery that aligns with business goals and user needs.
- Documentation: Work with the Agile team to produce any required documentation and training materials for the product(s) within your areas of responsibility including business requirements and functional design documents and release notes.
- Issue Management: Help triage and escalate issues as needed (e.g. escalations to development from the support desk).
- Continuous Improvement: Continuously seek opportunities to improve product processes and features, working with teams across the business to implement change.
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Experience & Skills:
Individual education and experience profile for a product owner will vary, so the following is provided as a guideline:
- organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders with often conflicting priorities and requirements.
- Experience with healthcare IT would be an advantage e.g. work experience or studies in this area.
- Knowledge of Agile (particularly SAFE Agile) would be an advantage
- Experience in a product role would be an advantage
- A team player who can work with cross-functional teams
Above all we’re looking for a self-starter with drive and ambition. Healthcare is a complex industry so you need to be eager to learn, be proactive and have an interest in delivering technology.
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