Product Owner - Contractor

What We’re Looking For

You’re an experienced Product Owner or technical Product Manager with a background in the digital sector, ideally from an agency or client-facing delivery environment. You’re comfortable working closely with engineering teams.

Skills & Experience

• A strong track record in the digital market, delivering consumer-facing websites and/or mobile apps.
• Experience writing technical requirements and detailed user stories that engineers can build from.
• Strong backlog and ticket management skills in JIRA, with Confluence for documentation.
• A solid working understanding of web and app technologies (APIs, integrations, front-end/back-end concepts), so you can hold your own in technical discussions.
• Experience in agile/Scrum teams, including sprint planning, refinement and iterative delivery.
• Clear, structured communication that you can adapt for engineers, designers and clients.
• Comfortable with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Slack and Miro.

Soft Skills & Approach

• Pragmatic and focused on delivery. You keep tickets moving and sprints on track.
• Quick to build trust with engineering teams and client stakeholders.
• Hands-on and detail-oriented, willing to roll up your sleeves on the backlog.
• You know when to push back on scope, when to compromise and when to just get it shipped.

• Experience in sports, media or high-traffic content platforms.
• Familiarity with headless CMS architectures.
• Experience with analytics tools (e.g. GA4, Adobe Analytics, Amplitude).

• Own and maintain the product roadmap, keeping it aligned with client objectives and delivery capacity.
• Define technical requirements and turn them into well-structured epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Manage the backlog end to end, including ticket creation, refinement, prioritisation and keeping JIRA accurate and up to date.
• Work closely with engineers to clarify requirements, unblock issues and make pragmatic trade-offs on scope and feasibility.
• Lead CMS-related product decisions, including content models, editorial workflows, integrations and platform configuration.
• Run or contribute to agile ceremonies: backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews and retros.
• Act as the main point of contact between engineering and client stakeholders, translating business needs into technical tasks.
• Use analytics and user feedback to prioritise improvements and measure outcomes.

• CMS experience. You must have owned or delivered products built on a CMS (e.g. WordPress, Contentful, Drupal, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager or similar headless/traditional platforms). You understand content models, editorial workflows, integrations and how CMS decisions affect engineering and content teams.