Head of Product Ownership

Company Description

About Us

Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. During life’s big moments — from buying a home or a car to sending a child to college to growing a business by connecting with new customers — we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.

We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries. By investing in our people, technology and innovation, we can help transform businesses, help communities prosper, enable more people to feel included in the financial opportunities that should be available to them, and help people to thrive. We're looking for inspired employees that want to make an impact on people and business.

Today’s digital, data-fueled economy means many businesses are struggling to extract the right level of insight to empower their operations and decision-making strategies. At Experian, we are committed to find a solution whereby banks and other financial service providers could maximize data – specifically Open Banking data and transactional data sharing – to better inform decisions.

We are currently looking for Head of Product Ownership to join our Experian Software Solutions Organization, who will be responsible for the care of the totality of the product(s), including not only features, but non-functional behavior, quality, and technical debt and for building effective relationships with senior management and stakeholders, in different countries, time zones and cultures.



Job Description

You're probably wondering what you'll be doing:

· Working through requirements in an agile manner, considering fitness of purpose, adherence to business objectives, compliance, and product vision, challenging positively where appropriate.
· Responsible for the acceptance of those requirements by Software Engineering teams for execution.
· Responsible to learn the product(s), hands-on, to ensure proper understanding of context, features and functions, and to share knowledge with the team and other stakeholders, in both formal and informal sessions.
· From time to time prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.
· Responsible for setting priorities and developing plans in collaboration with key stakeholders against planned objectives, in consideration of constraints, dependencies and competing interests, and ensuring that the product needs and vision are maintained.
· Line management of multiple Product Owners across multiple Agile teams in different product areas, countries, and time zones.
· Ensures team members understand the importance of adhering to their regulatory obligations and responsibility for implementation of company policies and procedures.
· Ensure team members understand the operating model and the functional and individual responsibilities



Qualifications

We look for you to bring:

· Excellent requirements gathering and analysis skills
· Able to demonstrate a strong understanding of business processes and translate that understanding into technical requirements
· Experience, strong understanding, and application of Agile at Scale practices such as LeSS, SaFE, as well as one or more of the primary Agile methodologies (Scrum/KanBan/XP etc).
· Programme and Project Management competencies including stakeholder management, scope, schedule, costs, quality, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
· Strong understanding and application of change management competencies
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
· Experience working in a Software / Technology Product context, possessing strong technical expertise and the ability to confidently work with customers and other stakeholders to establish story acceptance criteria.

Additional Information

We offer:

· Personal Development - career pathway for professional growth supported by learning and development programs and unlimited access to online educational training courses, learning materials & books
· Work environment - excellent work conditions with friendly environment, recognized strong team spirit, and fun and quality recreation time
· Social benefit package - life insurance, food vouchers, additional health insurance, corporate discounts, Multisport card, and a Share options scheme
· Work-life balance - 25 days paid vacation and 3 additional paid days for participation in Social responsibility events
· Opportunity for Flexible working hours and Home Office

In order to stay safe and be responsible, we introduce a remote hiring process with online interviews for all candidates.

Why us?

No one makes sense of data like Experian. We are on a mission to deliver the full power of data, analytics and technology in ways that transform lives. As a team, we’re committed to working together. So, we work in an inclusive environment that welcomes people with lots of different perspectives. We put people first and care about work that works. We like to strike a balance between how much time we spend on work and how much we keep for ourselves. After all, we’ve all got commitments and interests outside the office. So, talk to us about how you’d best like to work with us. We’re flexible and interested in helping you to get the best out of working with us.

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