Product Owner

Gerrards Cross (hybrid or remote)

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for translating the product vision and strategy set by the Product Manager into actionable tasks for the development team. You will work closely with the Product team (including Engineering, QA, and Design team members) to ensure the product backlog is well-defined, prioritised, and aligned with customer needs and business goals.

The Product Owner will report to the Product Manager.

The key areas of responsibility for the Product Owner include:

• Managing the Product backlog.
• Working closely with the Product team to ensure requirements are well-defined and delivered according to expectations.
• Ensure the delivery of products is to the agreed scope, timescales, and budget.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Product Manager to understand and communicate the product vision, strategy, and objectives to the development team.
• In collaboration with stakeholders, create and manage the product backlog,
• Refine ideas, detail user stories, and technical tasks. Incorporate high-priority security and support fixes.
• Prioritise the backlog with stakeholders based on business value, technical feasibility and customer impact.
• Participate and Perform sprint planning meetings in collaboration with the Product team and agree to sprint goals.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies with the Product team including stand-ups, backlog refinement and sprint reviews
• Work with the Engineering team to provide clear direction and acceptance criteria for development tasks.
• Work closely with the Engineering team during sprints, answering questions, and providing feedback on progress.
• Oversee quality assurance to ensure deliverables meet the defined acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with the Product team to define and communicate delivery plans, sharing and refining these with the Product Manager and other appropriate stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor the product's performance, gather insights, and suggest improvements for future iterations.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities For Customer-specific Products

Certain workforce products have been tailored to a specific customer’s needs. A Causeway Strategic Client Partner may act as the customer liaison in such projects.

The following additional responsibilities apply to these products:

• Work with the customer and/or Strategic Client Partner to refine requirements, ensuring these are realistic and clearly articulated. This includes any prioritised fixes from support and high-priority security fixes.
• Estimate and price delivery of requested items into a release, working with the Strategic Client Partner who will approve scope and pricing before being shared with the customer.
• Create a project plan to deliver the approved scope to an agreed timescale, agreeing key milestones with the customer and/or Strategic Client Partner.
• Manage delivery against the agreed timescale, escalating any risks or issues that may prevent on-time delivery.
• Feedback on any assumptions and further refinements to requirements that arise during the specification, development and quality assurance stages.
• Perform regular status reviews with the customer and/or Strategic Client Partner to discuss any requirements queries, review progress and schedule customer activities such as UAT and go-live.
• Obtain documented sign-off for key stages (such as UAT completion and go-live).
  
  

Key Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Previous experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and product development processes.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to interact effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with attention to detail.
• Customer-focused mindset with a passion for delivering high-quality products.
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools.
  
  

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.
  
  

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.