Digital Product Owner

Vitality, Digital Product Owner, Bournemouth, £Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

We're the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices. With 1.4m UK members and more than 25m globally, we're out to make the world a healthier, happier place.

That applies as much to our people as it does to our members. So, as well as a highly competitive pay package, you'll enjoy: Free places to Vitality sponsored run events, online fitness classes and wellbeing workshops, competitions to win tickets to top-flight sporting events, health checks, and access to our full range of partners and rewards.

It's what we call offering shared value because a healthy, happy team is good for us, good for our members, and good for you.

As ourDigital Product Owner, you'll get the benefits our members enjoy, including:

• Our award-winning private Vitality Health insurance + wellness incentive programme
• Access to The Vitality Programme - Apple Watch, Waitrose and Partners, Garmin, Amazon Prime, Champneys Spa days, Rakuten TV, and half-price gym memberships to name a few!
• Personal health fund + Life Assurance
• Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy and sell 5 more
• Flexible benefits package
• Internal incentives, competitions, and awards - a chance to win football and sports tickets or even be in with a chance to have a holiday of a lifetime
• A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career

As our Digital Product Owner, you will be accountable for the Digital Member Experience. You will execute the short to medium term product strategy and be accountable for delivering the 0-3 month product roadmap and backlog. Working collaboratively with Business Owners and technology development teams, you will curate product backlogs, craft user stories and define acceptance criteria that deliver the business benefit and value of each product and its features.

Key responsibilities of our Digital Product Owner include:

• Being responsible for prioritisation, management and delivery of the 0-3 month digital product strategy and roadmap
• Undertaking the daily management of related digital products
• Working collaboratively with the product team, business process owners and development and project teams to create user stories
• Carrying out detailed analysis of user needs, business requirements, impact, scope, risks, benefits and technical dependencies for user stories
• Ensuring all user stories are captured, created and maintained in the product backlog, written in the agile user story format, with relevant support documentation and clearly defined acceptance criteria
• Working collaboratively with the UX team to provide an understanding of the user stories to ensure designs are aligned
• Ensuring the product backlog is accurately prioritised through regular discussion and review with the Product Manager and Business Owners, and other key business stakeholders
• Providing technical input into the business cases that are produced by the Product Manager and Business Owners
• Being a key contributor in an ongoing optimisation programme, including insight, analysis and testing
• Understanding, communicating and driving optimisation of all leading metrics and KPIs across journeys
• Undertaking regular reporting including analytics packs, sprint packs and release packs

What we are looking for in our ideal Digital Product Owner:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• A digital specialist with a proven track record working in native apps and web
• High level of understanding of web development practices
• Strong understanding of digital analytics and conversion rate optimisation processes
• Strong ability to refine and prioritise product backlog in a fast-moving environment
• Proficiency at writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
• Excellent delivery and execution of sprint rituals and releases
• Experience of using work management tools such as Jira, Aha
• The ability to lead and facilitate meetings within business and technical teams
• The ability to produce high quality supporting artefacts to assist the team in development of product features
• Outstanding team working and collaboration skills

Closing Date: Wednesday 20th October 2021

Working for Vitality, you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Digital Product Owner, thenplease click 'apply' today.

Please note that to ensure the safety of our offices and employees, we require all new hires to be vaccinated for Covid-19.

If your doctor has told you not to be vaccinated, please let us know during the application process so that an accommodation can be made.

You can find more information about our commitment to ensuring office safety to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission by visiting the careers page on our company website.