Product Owner
MPB, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are MPB, the world’s largest online platform for used photography and videography equipment. Our platform transforms the way that people buy, sell and trade in photo and video kit. MPB is a destination for everyone, whether you’ve just discovered your passion for visual storytelling or you’re already a pro.
MPB has always been committed to making kit more accessible and affordable, and helping to visualise a more sustainable future. We recirculate more than 300,000 items of used kit every year, extending the life and creative potential of photo and video equipment for creators around the world.
Headquartered in the creative communities of Brighton, Brooklyn and Berlin, the MPB team includes trained camera experts and seasoned photographers and videographers who bring their passion to work every day to deliver outstanding service. Every piece of kit is inspected carefully by our product specialists and comes with a six-month warranty to give our customers peace of mind that buying used doesn’t mean sacrificing reliability.
MPB has raised multiple rounds of venture capital and private equity funding, most recently 50m Series D in April 2021, and is listed in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100.
We are excited to be expanding our UK team. We are seeking an experienced Product Owner to contribute to our growth as a best-in-class organization.
If you’re an innovative thinker with a passion for supporting photography and videography, we would love to hear from you. You’ll be working in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment that includes local and global teams.
We recognise the benefit of inclusive practices to better build a diverse community here at MPB. Our commitment to ensuring inclusion fuels and connects us as one with the diverse community of visual storytellers that we serve.
MPB customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of family makeup, race, sexuality, religion, gender identity, disability or age. At MPB, every employee has the opportunity to make an impact and grow.
The role
We are looking for an experienced, resourceful Product Owner to join our growing team. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of our products, helping to deliver an exciting roadmap of innovative initiatives. Working with the rest of the product amp; engineering team, you will be responsible for driving and defining the launch of new features, services and products for our customers and internal users. You should have a solid grasp of, strategy, sprint management, release planning , Agile methodologies and analytics in order to deliver high-quality product features to meet customer needs and deliver business value.
Requirements
We are seeking people with a positive attitude, a strong work ethic and thirst to learn. You will be somebody who is seeking ownership of your work, who wants to see your ideas put into action as part of a growth-stage company with a progressive culture. You should be a creative thinker, driven to solve the needs of our users and deliver the best possible experience for our customers. An interest in UX, UI design and data ensures you deliver beautiful solutions that work. Highly user-centric, you use empathy to put our customers front and centre and are a champion for our customers in all conversations.
You will be somebody who is an active listener, able to gather and interpret user needs into requirements. You are able to balance the priorities of many different voices and opinions in an unbiased way to ensure business value is always paramount.
We foster a culture of quality and openness within the team. You will be a team player who enjoys collaboration and is happy implementing improvements on an iterative basis, building upon and elevating our projects. You will provide vision and leadership to your scrum team, ensuring the team is working together to deliver a shared goal.
Requirements
- Ability to work very closely with key stakeholders to manage and shape their product needs
- Ability to collaborate with marketing, design and UX to design solutions
- Demonstrate a passion for understanding and championing the business, customer and user needs.
- Ability to translate high-level requirements into epics and user stories with appropriate level of acceptance criteria and test scenarios
- Very comfortable working closely with developers and test automation engineers, being available to answer questions and provide clarity whenever necessary
- Management and maintenance of the product backlog
- Confidence in leading sprint review meetings, demonstrating features and taking feedback from stakeholders
- A strong advocate for customers, internal users and the business for the develop