Product Owner
OpenSourced Ltd · EH66LX · posted 20 days ago
Going rate £55,200UK median £57,625
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3556Sales accounts and business development managers
Going rate for this occupation: £55,200 · UK median pay £57,625
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Where this salary sits
- UK pay for this occupation
- This role£50,000 to £60,000stated
- Going rate£55,200
- UK median£57,625
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| Percentile | Pay |
|---|---|
| 10th | £32,651 |
| 25th | £43,049 |
| 50th | £57,625 |
| 75th | £79,598 |
| 90th | £106,958 |
| Going rate | £55,200 |
| UK median | £57,625 |
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Product Owner
Edinburgh (Hybrid) | £60,000 | Permanent | Mid/Senior
Our client is a GovTech company delivering digital licensing and permitting services on behalf of the Scottish Government. They're looking for a Product Owner to own the day-to-day running of the backlog, keep delivery moving, and ensure the engineering team always has clear, well-defined work in front of them.
The Role
This is an operational product ownership role sitting at the intersection of service design, engineering, and client delivery. You'll sit inside the delivery team, attend standups, run refinement sessions, write stories, resolve blockers, and make the decisions that keep sprints on track. You'll be the person engineering turns to when something is unclear, and the person who ensures what gets built reflects what users and clients actually need. You'll work closely with the CTO to shape and prioritise the backlog, and with engineering to ensure items are well-scoped, understood, and deliverable.
What You'll Do
Own and maintain the product backlog — groomed, prioritised, and ready for delivery at all times Write and refine user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria Run and facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and sprint review sessions Work with engineering daily to clarify requirements, unblock delivery, and support sprint execution Triage incoming requests from clients and internal teams into well-defined backlog items Work with service designers and user researchers to ground delivery in user needs and service evidence Distinguish between product configuration choices, service design issues, policy constraints, and engineering decisions Manage and communicate sprint progress to the wider team and clients Support testing and acceptance of completed work before release Flag risks, dependencies, and scope creep early and clearly
What We're Looking For
Proven experience owning a backlog in an active agile delivery team Ability to write clear, well-scoped user stories that engineers can act on without ambiguity Strong facilitation skills for refinement, planning, and review ceremonies Comfort making day-to-day prioritisation decisions under competing pressures Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues and clients An organised, dependable working style — things don't fall through the gaps Ability to work across product, service design, engineering, and client teams without losing focus on delivery Experience with Scottish Government, local government, UK public services, regulated services, GovTech delivery, or digital licensing and permitting is particularly valuable
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