Principal Product Owner

The Opportunity

We are looking for Principal Product Owners with a wealth of experience dealing with complex business challenges, facing off to the senior engineers and feeding that demand into the development lifecycle. We need someone who is technically skilled and can work within our design, software, architect and SRE teams. You will have a detailed understanding of software delivery practices, architecture, data constructs and the technical components that support them.

A Principal Product Owner working in JLR’s Digital Product Platform teams need to be a genuine advocate for modern, high-quality software delivery practices. You will need to be customer focused, driven to deliver experiences our customers and consumers will love, while also having the experience to collaborate with different stakeholders from across the business. An individual who is resilient, energetic and enthusiastic, able to deliver results in a complex environment.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Strategy and Planning

• Own the product road map for your areas and align it to your customer’s strategic goals.
• Define the long-term vision for the product.
• Define metrics to measure success.
• Define product priorities and align across related Product Set’s, PO’s and teams.
• Draft key objectives, benefits, acceptance criteria, expected results and delivery strategies.

Leadership

• Act as an ambassador for your product-family internally and externally
• Work closely with product management and senior management to create a product family that fits the company portfolio.
• Increase an understanding of Agile practices, new technologies opportunities and other new trends.
• Play a key role in developing team culture and spirit; build strong relationships with the
• Metrics and reporting to senior management.

Technical

• Work with Architecture to plan technical product strategy.
• Assist the architects and data designers in mapping out the systems required to deliver the technical capabilities.
• Ensure that the architecture and data structures are aligned to customer requirements.
• Ensure that the technical architecture meets the demands of the business customers.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experienced in an Agile/Dev Ops environment.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience, integration and dependencies.
• Able to collaborate with all stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product including senior executives.
• Identify and help the customers understand their value proposition.
• Set out and agree the product iterative and quantifiable steps with stakeholders (MVP)