Product Owner

1. Strategic product leadership & platform thinking - ability to translate long-term platform vision into actionable roadmaps, driving alignment across ARTs, QPI objectives and enterprise goals.
2. Strong Backlog Management & Prioritisation expertise - experience in maintaining a single prioritised backlog spanning multiple squads/ initiatives, making informed trade-offs using business value, KPIs, ROI and customer outcomes
3. AI & Automation literacy -Familiarity with how AI (e.g., predictive analytics, automation, conversational tooling) optimises communications, supports backlog creation, and improves client experience.
4. Customer-centric product delivery - Demonstrated ability to act as the voice of the customer, ensuring communications delivery, clarity, consistency and meaningful client outcomes.
5. Stakeholder management & cross functional leadership - strong ability to collaborate with tech, ops, propositions, architects, delivery leads and business owners globally - fostering alignment, transparency, and shared accountability.

Nice to haves:

1. Deep SAFe Agile / ART leadership experience - Proven capability operating withing Agile Release Trains, shaping PI planning, managing cross-team dependencies, and ensuring cohesive delivery at scale.
2. Technical acumen (API's, data models, cloud, integrations) - ability to partner effectively with architects/engineers, understand platform constraints, and support modernisation.
3. Experience driving self-service & democratised change models - understanding how to shape and delivery capability that reduce dependency on technical teams and enable business-led configuration
4. Regulatory & Risk awareness in communications - useful for prioritisation and ensuring platform outcomes remain compliant, resilient and controlled.
5. Strong storytelling, communication & influencing skills - ability to clearly communicate vision, decisions, trade-offs, and value to senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and stakeholders