Senior Product Owner

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Full time
Location: Oxford
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Job offered by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Location:

Oxford, UK Our mission is to unlock human potential. We welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and we embrace individuals who get excited about learning. Bring your experiences, your perspectives, and your passion; it’s in our differences that we empower the way the world learns. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Product Owner to join our Wiley Open Access Dashboard team. A Senior Product Owner plays a crucial role in the development of high-quality software that aligns with customer needs and business objectives. This position requires a deep understanding of both the technical and business aspects of software development, as well as excellent communication and leadership skills. The Senior Product Owner is responsible for defining requirements, performing impact analyses for assigned initiatives, and working with relevant business stakeholders to drive decision-making and delivery of effective, efficient solutions. How you will make an impact: Analyze and re-engineer business processes: Use a comprehensive understanding of business problems and solutions to evaluate and revamp existing processes, ensuring alignment with the current and future business environment. This supports strategic initiatives and overall organizational goals. Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders: Engage with stakeholders and Product Managers to gather detailed business requirements through various techniques such as interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process workflows, value stream mapping, storyboards, and use case scenarios. Develop work plans: Formulate structured work plans and define overall approaches for each initiative, ensuring clarity and direction for the development teams. Mentor and guide team members: Provide mentorship and guidance to junior Product Owners and Business Analysts, fostering a collaborative and productive working environment. Provide subject matter expertise: Offer specialized knowledge to support the definition of business requirements, process design, and the implementation of processes across all work teams. Evaluate business requirements: Break down high-level information into functional requirements, ensuring that these requirements are based on business needs rather than user preferences, and resolve any conflicts that arise. What we look for: Ability to understand business objectives and convert them into workflows. Excellent presentation and facilitation skills. Experience in modeling business processes using various tools and techniques. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assimilate new concepts. Strength in issue management and customer relationship skills. Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills. Adaptability to a fast-paced, continually changing work environment with multiple priorities. About Wiley: Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world’s most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge-seekers to transform today’s biggest obstacles into tomorrow’s brightest opportunities. With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers’ steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds. We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees, for example we offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development. We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the UK, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies. Wiley proactively displays target base pay range for UK, Canada and USA based roles. When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

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