IoT Technology Product Owner

What You’ll Do

The Technology Product Owner manages the interface to the IoT Line of Business (LoB) and, in particular, to the Business Product Manager associated with your products / platform / developments.

You will be assigned to one or more products, and their value-streams, for product development with the focus of this role on SIM features and capabilities as well as Remote SIM provisioning. It will be necessary to negotiate, manage and agree demand into the practice for these products and manage the backlog, new features definition, roadmap prioritisation and operational governance.

You will work with wider practice leads, vendors, technology and operations teams to build the technology plan to inform and deliver the product / platform strategy and roadmap. This will require you to have a strong technology understanding for the products that are to be developed. You will also align and prioritise technology innovation and customer co-creation for the practice.

You will negotiate, manage and agree demand into the practice and manage the finance and operational governance alongside other stakeholders.

The product owner is responsible for the ‘how’, ensuring they support the LoB product manager (accountable for the ‘what’) to build the product roadmap, advising mandatory technology capabilities, progressing impact assessments and agreeing on behalf of the practice that the final prioritised roadmap is viable from a technology, cost and delivery perspective.

You will work on the creation of capabilities and product feature requirements for developments working jointly with the LoB product manager. You will then translate these into lower level product / platform / operating model requirements ensuring these are underpinned by an end-to-end technical architecture (including user journeys and service models) working with other roles in Technology (e.g., architects and squad leads).

You will be aware and responsible for in-life technology management activities encompassing the end-to-end product architecture (including service, operations, etc.) in so far as they relate to the 12-month feature level roadmap aligned to the product / portfolio strategy.

Who You Are

Core competencies :

Technical product development / product owner experience

Strong understanding of the SIM products and technology (all different SIM form factors, UICC / eUICC, iSIM, SIM apps and applets), Remote SIM provisioning (OTA, SGP.01, SGP.22, SGP.31), SIM integrations (SM-SR, SMDP) – not as deep a technology understanding is required as a domain or solution architect

Brings a balance of customer, business and technology understanding to relate technology solutions to product outcomes

Strong collaboration, communication, team working and influencing skills

Relevant product, platforms and technology experience with exposure to Platform Eco-systems

Ability to build E2E technology plans specific to products and platforms

Customer centric focus ideally with experience defining capabilities and features through customer co-creation

In-life technology management and KPI performance relevant to products

Roll out and manage in-life vendor cost and service performance specific to products; Budget management and performance

Experience building technical specifications for products and in turn user stories, service models, in conjunction with business and technology teams

Backlog management and prioritisation

Must have technical qualifications :

University degree as relevant to the role

Managing in multi-market and global environments

Experience leading and delivering high performance through teams in Telecoms and or Technology industry roles

Agile product development experience (e.g. SAFe, Spotify, Scrum) and qualifications

Experience with Office and Collaboration apps, also product development tools e.g. Jira, Confluence

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What’s In It For You

We want you to feel happy and fulfilled at work, without compromising the other things in life that matter to you. From our flexible working and leading people policies to our commitment to personal development and wellbeing, there are lots of ways that we support you.

Yearly bonus : 10%

Annual leave : 28 days +