Business Product Owner

We are looking for a Business Product Owner to develop and maintain a detailed product backlog based on the OUPE Digital Strategy for products and platforms serving the Spanish market.

Main responsibilities

• Contribute to OUP’s digital product strategy and roadmaps, translating agreed priorities into delivery plans that support OUPE and divisional goals.
• Own product and platform backlogs and support release planning, translating agreed outcomes into clear epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work with OUPE, ELT, Digital Product and delivery colleagues to assess value, customer impact, effort, risk and dependencies, and agree priorities.
• Represent customer and user needs throughout delivery, providing evidence and context and validating proposed solutions with relevant OUPE colleagues.
• Work with Market Research colleagues to identify, understand and validate customer needs, define appropriate measures, and use research findings to inform priorities, solution design and evaluation of outcomes.
• Monitor delivery progress, quality and dependencies against agreed objectives. Support testing and acceptance, escalate risks and blockers promptly, and help stakeholders make informed trade-offs when plans need to change.
• Provide product and platform expertise to OUPE and ELT colleagues, explaining capabilities, planned changes, constraints and customer or operational implications.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a Product Owner or comparable digital delivery role, working with cross-functional teams to translate business and user needs into deliverable product requirements.
• Practical experience of agile product development methods and tools, including backlog management, refinement, iteration planning and acceptance criteria.
• Resourceful with the ability to identify and agree solutions.
• Sufficient technical understanding to work effectively with engineers and suppliers, evaluate delivery implications and explain technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders. This includes a working awareness of software architecture, standards and development practices.
• Experience of planning and delivering continuous change and improvement in a digital product environment, including maintaining release plans.
• Communication, networking and influencing within a matrix structure.
• Awareness of how AI-enabled tools and capabilities can be used responsibly within digital product discovery, delivery and continuous improvement.

This is an office-based role in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid).

Work-life balance is important to us; therefore, we offer 22 days’ holiday and Christmas closure. OUP’s hybrid working model requires that all staff worldwide who have an office-based role work a minimum of 2 days from their OUP office.