Job description
Job Title: Product Owner
Workbase: 1 North Crofty, Tolvaddon Energy Park, Camborne, TR14 0HX
(Note: The Company Office location may change from time to time.)
Line Manager: Product Discovery Manager
Main Purpose of Job:
To enable LumiraDx Care Solutions to achieve its vision and business goals by ensuring the right functionality gets developed in the most effective way possible for a specified product or product suite. To manage and to communicate the product vision and planned evolution and functionality changes to the whole company.
As a member of the product discovery team you should:
- Take full responsibility for your areas of work.
- Look for continuous improvement and innovative ideas in all that you do.
- Contribute to the strategic development of the company.
- Embed the company values and culture in everything you do so that these are carried throughout the business.
Environment:
LumiraDx Care Solutions operates from Camborne within a professional and friendly environment focused on clear commercial targets. A reasonable amount of UK travel will be required to meet our customers and end users.
Functional links with:
Sales Team, Marketing Team, Customer Services Team, Software Delivery Team, Customers, End Users & Business Partners
Duties and Responsibilities.
Specific:
- Drive towards improving a particular business goal and co-ordinate work and communicate across departments in line with this.
- To communicate the product vision, direction and principles and to ensure that new functionality aligns with them.
- Talk to and work with our customers and end users to understand their problems and goals.
- Design features and products that will solve our customer’s and end user’s problems.
- Create low fidelity mock ups, story maps and process flows and work with user experience analysts to design highly usable workflows and screens.
- To organise and drive the most effective prioritisation of work and stories.
- To maintain the product backlog.
- To work with appropriate internal teams to prioritise smaller features and bugs.
- To generate ideas for ways in which the company can meet its goals.
- To support the product delivery team to deliver new features and products by sprint planning, prioritising stories and managing scope.
- To be a ‘window to the customer/user’ – communicating the problems we are trying to solve and why, together with communicating and documenting the business rules and working with the team to define acceptance criteria for stories.
- To keep abreast of relevant market research and industry changes.
General:
- Undertake continuous professional development, to keep up to date with the latest techniques and practices of your profession and the commercial environment in which LumiraDx Care Solutions operates.
- Work at all times in accordance with:
- The company Values and Culture.
- The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and to follow all company procedures and guidelines that assist this.
- The company Quality and Information Security Management Systems for example, but not limited to, ISO9001, ISO13485 & ISO27001.
- The Data Protection Act.
- The company’s Dignity & Diversity Policy.
- Undertake such other duties as may be required within the general scope of the job.
Other:
This job description is not intended to be too “prescriptive” and a degree of flexibility is expected. As business needs change, so the role and responsibilities may change subject to a full discussion and agreement on any changes.
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Recruitment Pack: Product Owner
About LumiraDx Care Solutions and LumiraDx
We are a part of a global health technology business. From our Cornwall base, we deliver coordinated care solutions. From clinical decision support software, to clever patient apps and data analytics, our joined-up solutions connect the patient with their care team and deliver accurate, up-to-date information and connectivity, for better health, better experiences and better value.
We know that technology has a vital role to play in the future of healthcare, which is why we focus on innovation, craftsmanship and collaboration in our teams to develop products which are not only safe and effective, but are also great to look at, easy to use, interactive and fun.
We have a friendly, supportive and dynamic culture that we are proud of, built around Agile working, emotional intelligence and iterative development. We develop our staff to be excellent in their role, but also to be ambassadors of our culture and values.
This role will be based with the Care Solutions Team.
Recruitment process
Please read the job and person specifications enclosed with this document. Please also complete the application form and return it with an optional CV to [email protected] by the deadline.
Please note that CVs received without a fully completed application form will not be considered.
Applications from overseas candidates will only be considered if they already have a valid UK work visa.
Applications will be reviewed after the closing date and a short list of candidates will be selected for a first stage interview at our Camborne office.
If selected you will be asked to bring the following original documents (photocopies will not be accepted) to the interview:
- Proof of identity (e.g. a valid passport)
- Eligibility to work in the UK
- Proof of qualifications
Person specification: Product Owner
Salary: | £35,000 to £40,000 |
Holidays: | 25 days plus statutory Bank Holidays per annum |
Normal place of work: | Tolvaddon Energy Park, Camborne Cornwall. |
Start date: | As soon as practical |
Contract: | Full time, permanent. |
Deadline for application: | Friday 28th July 2017 |
Person Specification:
Assessment criteria | Essential
| Desirable | How Assessed |
Experience | Demonstrable experience working as part of a software team using Agile processes and techniques Experience working directly with customers and/or end users Experienced in the management of key stakeholders Experience defining user stories and managing backlogs | Experience leading a small team Previous experience in a Product Owner role Experience in the medical industry
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Knowledge | Knowledge of Agile processes and techniques
| Knowledge of Lean Product or Lean UX techniques and philosophies An understanding of user experience design
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Skills and abilities | Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills with ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation Able to really listen to and empathise with customers and users to understand the underlying problem to solve Planning and decision making Able to articulate a clear vision, goals and rational Strong analytical skills with ability to organise, summarise, clarify and communicate ideas simply, succinctly and accurately Able to work with others to create easy to use workflows and screens Able to clearly define, document and communicate business rules and acceptance criteria | Able to write and run usability tests Able to create low fidelity mocks | AF/IN |
Attributes
| An adaptable and flexible approach to work, individuals and groups Innovative thinking A high degree of integrity, confidentiality and commitment Enthusiastic and optimistic Interested in technology and in people A good listener Able to give and receive constructive feedback | REF/In |
Position – Product Owner
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