Product Owner

We believe in better. And we make it happen. 

Better content. Better products. And better careers. 

Working in Tech, Product or Data at Sky is about building the next and the new. From broadband to broadcast, streaming to mobile, SkyQ to Sky Glass, we never stand still. We optimise and innovate. 

We turn big ideas into the products, content and services millions of people love. 

And we do it all right here at Sky. 

The Product Owner is responsible for leading and managing the successful delivery of our product capabilities. This includes implementing the product roadmap, coordinating resources, tracking progress, ensuring quality control and providing regular updates to stakeholders. The Product Owner will also be responsible for identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of features on time and within budget.

What you’ll do 

• Communicating the Product Vision - Support the development of the Product Vision, led by the Product Managers and explicitly communicate the Product Vision to your teams, ensuring that the context, rationale and purpose of the product is clear and understood

• Agreeing Priorities based on maximising value - Collaborate effectively with the Product and Programme Managers and key business stakeholders to agree priorities, considering, Product capability and business priorities. Ensure features are prioritised on their basis of value whether direct revenue, key dependency for other deliveries or other less tangible reasons

• Managing the Product Backlog - be accountable for effective Squad Backlog management, including creating with the squad and clearly communicating Feature and Story prioritisation, and ensuring that the Backlog is transparent, visible and understood 

• Overseeing the Development Stages – maintain consistent and well-documented detail, reporting on and managing risks to ensure plans/boards are kept in line with base-line expectations, Ensure appropriate reviews are in place to build confidence with the key stakeholders Working with the scrum teams to ensure that operational requirements are captured early in the process and fully factored into development processes, to ensure the delivery of resilient, scalable and secure systems

• Maintain Delivery Momentum for overall Product Delivery – by working closely with other Sky departments and third-party suppliers, ensure that detailed plans are captured that consider key dependencies and to ensure these are closely managed and contingent options in place as required, unblocking impediments to delivery enabling the development teams to focus  

• Instil continuous improvement as a behaviour – take the lead on evaluating on whether the product development is fit to progress to the next iteration or whether you need to make adjustments prior to proceeding  

What you'll bring

• Leadership and ownership of delivering SW products with experience gained either as a Product Owner or Project Manager

• Must have solid background of delivery experience from within the Technology industry 

• Must have strong demonstrable Agile skills, with solid experience of Scaled Agile / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 

• Must be a collaborative, adaptive team player for this key role to help drive some key technological initiatives for Ad Tech 

• Be a good relationship builder who can develop key relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally, ensuring alignment to meet product development and delivery goals 

• Experience gained from within the Media or AdTech industry a definite plus 

Team overview 

Content technology and innovation 

Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to create and distribute our award-winning content! 

The rewards  

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to #LifeAtSky: the perks. Here’s a taster: 

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place 

• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate 

• A generous pension package 

• Private healthcare 

• Discounted mobile and broadband 

• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences 

Inclusion & how you'll work 

Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky. 

We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process. 

Your office space  

Osterley 

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers. 

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon. 

We'd love to hear from you 

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next. 

But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet. 

If you believe in better, we’ll back you all the way. 

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.