Senior Product Owner

We’re recruiting for a Senior Data Product Manager to join our Data Capability (data platforms, engineering, delivery and governance) and play a key role in shaping, prioritising and continuously improving enterprise data products built on our Azure Databricks Platform. You’ll make sure our data products are reliable, discoverable, and valuable for the teams who use them, enabling trusted analytics, AI and business decision making across British Heart Foundation.

Working closely with Heads of Product and Product Leads, you’ll help to shape product strategy within your product area, translating strategic objectives into a prioritised product roadmap and overseeing the delivery and measurement of product outcomes. This includes setting the strategic direction for new features, enhancements and capabilities.

A key part of the role will be working with data owners, stewards and technical teams to embed good data governance into data product delivery. This includes helping to define product standards, data quality expectations, metadata, access considerations, and clear ownership so that users can confidently understand, find and use the data available to them.

You’ll maximise value and ensure high-quality data products that enable analytics, AI and business decision making. You’ll also act as a Sub-Chapter Lead within the Product community, and will support capability development, product standards and ways of working across British Heart Foundation (BHF).

About you

You’ll have a strong knowledge and understanding of technology product development, product lifecycle management and Agile delivery practices. You’ll be comfortable working with complex data, technical teams and business stakeholders, and able to represent user needs while balancing data quality, governance, platform capability, and delivery priorities

You’ll have a proven track record as a Product Owner (or similar role) within a technology environment, demonstrating ownership of a product area, including product direction, delivery, performance and prioritisation.

You’ll also have the following skills and experience

In-depth experience working in Agile environments with multidisciplinary teams through discovery, prioritisation, refinement and delivery

Experience shaping product direction and leading roadmap, backlog and prioritisation decisions across a product area

Strong strategic and innovative thinking and problem-solving skills, able to manage complexity across a product area and deliver user and organisational value

Ability to translate strategic objectives, user insight and complex business and technical challenges into clear product direction, priorities and roadmaps

Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to engage others at all levels and navigate competing priorities

A collaborative, proactive and adaptable leadership style, able to guide, support and coach teams through ambiguity and change

Working arrangements?

This role is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Belonging at BHF

By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Interview process

The interview process may take place in-person or virtually via MS Teams.

How to apply??

It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.

Our recruitment processes are fair, accessible, and inclusive. BHF use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.

We support responsible use of AI to help shape your application. By applying for a role at BHF, you confirm that your application is authentic and reflects your own skills and experience, to ensure everyone is assessed fairly.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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Please note this role will be known internally as Senior Product Owner.