Product Owner

Tribal is a leading EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.

As a Product Owner, you will work within our team, contributing to the creating, developing and maintenance of our ebs product.

Tribal's ebs system enhances student engagement and streamlines operations with real-time digital technologies. It supports institutions from recruitment to retention by improving data collection, analysis, and sharing, empowering staff and students.

The role is home based with the occasional travel to our Sheffield office.

The role

As a Product Owner, you will support the development and maintenance of the current solution, as well as having a large input into the development and implementation of a brand new product utilising new technologies. You will support the rapid progress of transition and implementation of new features. Your responsibilities will include:

• Engage with and explain the solution to sales teams, customers, analysts, and developers.
• Serve as the SCRUM product owner, ensuring software releases are delivered predictably and with the necessary collateral.
• Collaborate with development teams to prepare, prioritize, and refine the story backlog, ensuring the functional backlog is ordered and regularly reviewed to align with sprint planning and provide high-quality epics to the team.
• Define detailed use cases to drive prioritisation and enhance user experience through direct user feedback.
• Continuously identify and propose new ideas and product solutions, coordinating with the Development and Professional Services teams as necessary.
• Convert the product vision, business strategy, and customer requirements into software features and product functionality.
• Clearly define, document, and articulate product requirements and/or user stories.
• Build and maintain productive and effective relationships with all product stakeholders.
• Ensure that Product Backlogs are well-defined and managed effectively, meeting all contractual and statutory commitments and clearly communicating with all stakeholders.

The Skills you’ll have:

• Experience as a Product Owner.
• Familiarity with the development Process and understanding technical constraints.
• Excellent requirement gathering skills and the ability to validate and translate those requirements into user stories for the development team.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with SaaS platforms.

What can Tribal offer you?

We offer a range of exceptional benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including a comprehensive Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme, along with a generous parental leave package and the ability to buy or sell holiday each year. We also offer the option of working overseas for up to 8 weeks per year. You'll also have access to E-Learning Opportunities to enhance your skills, Volunteer Days to give back to your community and access to Achievers, our reward and recognition platform, to ensure you can thrive both personally and professionally in a supportive and rewarding environment.

We’re committed to creating an environment that enables employees to balance their responsibilities inside and outside of work and encourage and support a range of flexible working patterns for all colleagues. If you need flexibility, apply and discuss your needs with us.

Criminal Records and Security Checks

If you are successful in your application, a security/criminal record check will be required before we can employ you, If, following the check the nature of a conviction is deemed unacceptable, this may lead to an offer of employment being withdrawn.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.