Full job descriptionProduct Owner
Outside IR35: £550 - £600 p/d
Primarily remote, ad hoc travel to London possibly required
16th Nov start, 5 month initial contract. Extensions to follow
3 or 4 days a weekOur client, a digital consultancy with a long track record in UK government, is building a new shared intranet for two large national public sector organisations. The project merges content from their two current intranets into a single site with a new information architecture.
The roleYou’ll own the product vision and backlog for the new intranet, making sure it works for staff in both organisations.
*Own and prioritise the backlog, writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria
*Turn the needs of staff and stakeholders in both organisations into one product vision and roadmap
*Work with user research, content design and IA to shape the new information architecture
*Make the calls on content: what moves across, what merges and what’s retired
*Build agreement between stakeholders in both organisations with different priorities
*Set how success is measured, such as findability and task completion
*Work with the Delivery Lead on scope, roadmap and releases
What you’ll bring*Product owner or product manager experience on website development projects
*UK government digital project experience, working to the GDS Service Standard and agile ways of working
*Strong backlog management and prioritisation
*Using user research and data to make product decisions
*Senior stakeholder management, including building consensus across organisations
Nice to have*Intranet, internal communications or content-heavy website projects
*Information architecture or content strategy experience
*Health or wider public sector experience
*Setting up content governance for after launch