Product Owner

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Hybrid working

Working Hours: 40 hours per week Monday – Friday

Job Status: Permanent

Who we are!

The Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of Consumer to Business (C2B), Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C). Across our digital platforms we exceed £20billion of Gross Merchandises Value (‘GMV’) on an annual basis. This includes market leading brands such as BCA, We Buy Any Car, cinch and Marshall.

https://www.constellationautomotive.com/techhub

The Constellation Technology Team provides a group-wide set of Technology Products and Services across the Constellation Automotive Group. We are a central function working across the following domains: Technology Operations, Cyber Security, Product, Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Logistics, Architecture and Portfolio; across the UK and Europe.

The Role

We are looking for a Product Owner to maximize the value of our products by translating business needs and customer insights into well-defined, prioritized work for delivery teams. The Product Owner acts as the primary link between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring the product vision is clearly understood and consistently executed.

Key Responsibilities

Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and communicate a clear product vision aligned with business goals and customer needs
• Contribute to product strategy and roadmap planning
• Continuously assess market trends, customer feedback, and competitive landscape

Backlog Management

• Own, create, and maintain the product backlog
• Write clear, concise user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria
• Use a data driven approach to define, prioritise and validate the backlog and user stories for your product area, using multiple data sources and customer insights.
• Ensure backlog is transparent, up to date, and ready for development
• Gather and manage input from business stakeholders, customers, and users

Delivery & Execution

• Work closely with engineering, delivery, design, and QA teams throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives)
• Clarify requirements and provide timely feedback to the delivery team
• Accept completed work based on agreed acceptance criteria

Value Measurement & Improvement

• Define and track product success metrics
• Review outcomes and iterate based on learnings
• Continuously look for opportunities to improve processes, product quality, and customer value

Skills and Experience

Required

• Proven 3+ year experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role, preferably for a SaaS company.
• Strong understanding of Agile / Scrum frameworks
• Experience in building products from scratch
• Good at interpreting data/user behavior
• Fluent in English
• Experience writing user stories and managing backlogs
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to demonstrate intellectual curiosity, logical thinking, and the ability to solve complex problems that may not always be well-defined.
• Ability to balance business, technical, and user perspectives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

Desirable

• Experience working with cross-functional, distributed teams
• Familiarity with product discovery techniques (e.g., customer interviews, experimentation, design thinking, …)
• Experience with product management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence)
• Scrum Product Owner certification (CSPO, PSPO) or similar

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered.

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or disability