Key Notes
Leading and mentoring Vix’s Product Owner community means connecting customer needs, commercial priorities and technical capability across its portfolio. You’ll shape roadmaps, help prioritise enhancements and develop product practices across multiple teams. This is a full-time, on-site Manchester role. Product-team leadership is sought, while experience in payments, transport, mobility, ticketing, SaaS or connected technology is highly valued.
What You'll Work On
- Lead and mentor Product Owners across Vix’s portfolio, aligning priorities and supporting consistent delivery across multiple teams.
- Shape product strategy and roadmap planning, helping teams define enhancements and outcome-driven user stories.
- Translate customer and internal stakeholder challenges into product direction that balances commercial priorities, customer experience and technical realities.
- Evolve Vix’s product practices and operating model as the Product Owner community and global portfolio scale.
Why This Role Matters
- Vix’s product portfolio is used by transport operators and passengers, so roadmap decisions that reconcile customer needs, commercial priorities and technical capability determine which outcomes teams deliver.
- The Product Owner community spans multiple teams and initiatives; shared mentoring and product practices create alignment as Vix scales product development globally.
What They Are Looking For
- Experience: Relevant experience includes work leading or mentoring Product Owners or product teams.
- Experience: Relevant experience includes ability to work across product strategy, delivery and customer engagement, solve complex problems and provide direction through ambiguity.
- Stakeholder: Relevant stakeholder skills include collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including software engineers and customers.
- Domain: Relevant domain knowledge includes understanding of agile product development and modern product-management practices.
- Preferred: Experience in payments, transport, mobility, ticketing, SaaS or connected technology is described as highly valuable.