Senior Product Owner

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Manchester
1 year ago
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Product Engineering at JLR is centred on innovation and creativity. From advanced driver assistance systems to developing the future of electric propulsion, the opportunities to create exceptional experiences for the future of motoring are wide-ranging. You'll work alongside industry experts to drive product strategy, manage programs, analyse performance, and lead transformation initiatives. Exceptional careers that bring world-renowned vehicles to life start here.

WHAT TO EXPECT

JLR is on a journey to becoming the best tech, modern luxury and sustainable mobility company in the world. We’re looking for passionate Digital Product people - technologists, thinkers, and leaders – to unite and inspire stakeholders and their teams.

Our mission is to power JLR's Digital Transformation, by rapidly growing digital capabilities to meet the needs of our luxury brands and an evolving market. We believe in the power of bespoke software technology to create a seamless customer experience within our vehicles, our dealerships and our connected lives.

Your role in our Digital organisation is to support in turning long-term vision into reality, using strategies built on customer need and delivering maximum value.

You'll harmonise Customer & User Centricity, Business Orientation and Technical Lifecycle into viable strategies and tactics for delivery. We work in the open, seek opportunities and overcome challenges together, so teamwork and soft skills are something we’ll value highly in building our new team.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Connect technology and value - enabling JLR to meet customer needs at the right time, owning and maintaining a Roadmap of purposeful work Build a culture of delivering outcomes, using essential metrics and measures to guide you - evidence that what you're asking a team to build is truly worth building Work with your key users and stakeholders to stretch their ambition Cultivate a meaningful community and network in your Product area, working together with solution architects and stakeholders Be resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment, whilst responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Experience as a Digital Product or Technology Owner in a Technical/Engineering industry The brilliant basics - a clear vision, strategy and roadmap for your product Patience to deal with the now, and the instinct to lead into the future Excellent stakeholder and people management skills - negotiating, brokering, influencing and satisfying the decisions made and why Genuine advocate for modern high-quality DevOps, modern software engineering practices and all things Agile

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