Product Owner, WPP Open

What you’ll be doing:

• Facilitate end-to-end agile delivery of specific features/epics within the WPP Open roadmap, collaborating with delivery and engineering.
• Partner with engineering throughout the product lifecycle, helping to remove roadblocks and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with Product Leadership to translate overall product vision/strategy into detailed, executable plans.
• Define, write, and refine detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for features, aligning with product vision.
• Manage and maintain a prioritised product backlog, reflecting strategy, stakeholder feedback, and development capacity.
• Conduct market and customer analysis for features to inform requirements and ensure user value.
• Stay abreast of emerging AI/ML and marketing technology trends to inform feature development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, relevant stakeholders) to define epics and user stories.
• Validate, prioritise, and integrate new product requests into the backlog, ensuring alignment.
• Participate in the validation and design of new product ideas at the feature level.
• Support the alignment of feature roadmaps and dependency management with other product teams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the development team, providing clarity on requirements.

What you’ll need:

• Relevant experience as a Product Owner, focused on agile delivery for SaaS platforms.
• Ability to translate product strategy into actionable backlogs and support agile development teams.
• Understanding of AI/ML and marketing technology trends, particularly for feature development.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills; experience in user research and competitive analysis at the feature level.
• Strong skills in backlog management, writing user stories, and prioritisation.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements.
• Certified Agile Product Owner or equivalent practical experience in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Passion for innovation and contributing to cutting‑edge marketing solutions.

Who you are:

• You’re open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open‑minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
• You’re optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures for our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
• You’re extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

Benefits:

• Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.
• Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
• Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.

Hybrid Work Arrangement:

Hybrid work model: teams in the office around four days a week. Accommodations and flexibility are discussed during interview.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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