We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Product Owner to join our Digital Division at Social Security Scotland. Working within the Data Provisioning Team, you will lead the continued development and ongoing delivery of the Data Sharing Portal (DSP) – a key product that enables secure, effective data sharing and insight to support vital public services.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape a high-impact product that supports data-driven decision-making across the organisation. You’ll play a central role in defining product strategy, leading delivery, and building high-performing teams, all while contributing to a wider digital transformation agenda.
As a Product Owner, you will combine strategic product leadership with line management of a small team. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will set direction, maintain the product roadmap, and ensure delivery meets user and organisational needs.
You will champion Agile and Lean practices, foster a collaborative, high-performing environment, and contribute to internal governance and wider leadership activities, including recruitment and capability building. This role blends people leadership with hands‑on delivery oversight to ensure products deliver meaningful value. A Product Owner is the lead for the product team in their programme or service.
At this role level, you will:
- be as interested in managing people as managing products
- work closely with the head of product (where they exist as a separate role) to provide leadership and direction to all products in a programme or a local product community
- maintain the high level roadmap
- be involved in a range of programme management activities in support of the service owner or programme lead
- be involved in hiring associate product managers, product managers, senior product managers and contractors
- provide leadership in your programmes and across the local community
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