Product Owner

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 3/4 days a week office-based.

Reports to: Head of Change and Transformation

Direct reports: 3 direct reports

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

Extra Information: Open to conversation on hybrid, flexible and compressed working arrangements.

As a Product Owner, responsible for our Individual Grantmaking Systems which facilitates our primary beneficiary work. You will be responsible for maximising the value of the products resulting from the work of the development team. You will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and the delivery team, prioritising the product backlog to ensure alignment with customer needs, business goals, and strategic objectives.

• Define and communicate the product vision and strategy in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring it is visible, transparent, and understood.
• Prioritise backlog items based on business value, customer impact, and technical feasibility.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, designers, quality assurance, and business analysts.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, and reviews.
• Ensure the team understands items in the backlog to the level needed.
• Act as the primary point of contact for product-related queries and decisions.
• Monitor product performance and user feedback to inform future development.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into user stories.
• Make trade-off decisions between scope, budget, and timelines.
• Manage deployments, testing, and communicating these changes to stakeholders.
• Working within the practice to support other product development when required.

Must haves:

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product management.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Experience with product lifecycle management and backlog tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
• Analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Familiarity with UX/UI principles and customer-centric design.

Nice to haves:

• Agile certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner - CSPO).

If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still encourage you to apply.

We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.

We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you've ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.

We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.

We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.

We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.

A career with Motability Foundation can offer you so much more than earning potential, we pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:

• 26 days annual leave, plus the option to buy/ sell up to five days.
• One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.
• Pension scheme - Up to 20%, including a 10% non-contributory contribution and matched contributions up to 5%.
• Life Assurance of four times your salary.
• Private healthcare through BUPA for you and your family, along with a Medicash Health Plan.
• Employee assistance programme: GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, sick pay and free gym and yoga sessions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave, including Adoption Pay.
• Free parking, EV charge points and a minibus service to/from the town centre and train station.
• Fresh fruit, breakfast snacks, and a Dress for Your Day dress code.
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.