Product Owner, Bromcom
Cloud-managed information & finance for schools
Open for applications
Cloud-managed information & finance for schools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide a single robust and cost-effective solution that removes the need for costly bolt-on products.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Skill: Able to direct and motivate the product development team of an organization
- Analytical Skill: Able to conduct surveys to determine most appropriate feature to add to a new or existing product
- Interpersonal Skill: Adapt to working with user groups and scrum team to obtain and analyse user stories
- A deep understanding of agile/lean principles, with a willingness to adapt and learn
- Ability to negotiate and compromise to deliver quality within timescales
- Excellent decision-making skills
- Must be business savvy and be able to understand the market, customer, and the business to make sound decisions
- Engage effectively with stakeholders by having excellent communication skills
- Commitment to build the best product
- Preferred experience working in a cross-functional, cross-cultural environment
What the job involves
- Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
- Connect with customers and end users to gather information on expected product features and the transform these into features and stories to add onto your backlog
- Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
- Conduct backlog refining meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Attend sprint planning and review meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
- Deliver new features by serving as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
- Highlight and specify the product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
- Proactively review and introduce required statutory changes and processes into development plans in timely manner based on the academic calendar and key important dates
- Analyse customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add substantial value to a product
- Constantly exchange ideas with internal and external stakeholders
- Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
- Take personal ownership of relevant KPIs and ensure that all developments are aligned to drive performance and have clear metrics, tracking mechanisms and targets. Highlight under-performance of metrics and develop plans in the roadmap and backlog in conjunction with the head to address these
- Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
- Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns
- Facilitate feedback sessions (via webinars or face-to-face meetings) with internal and external stakeholders after each sprint and release and report this feedback to agile management team and development team via feedback reports
- Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Bromcom has come some way since Founder Ali Guryen developed a wireless school attendance recording system in the early 1980s – then hailed as revolutionary. Nowadays, the company offers schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs) a range of cloud-based software solutions for attendance and assessment tracking, data management, finance, and budgeting.
While it would be presumptuous to label the company the leader in its field, its claim that 70% of the UK’s secondary schools use Bromcom for their cloud MIS is a serious indication of its position. Its landmark deal to supply its software to over 200 maintained schools in West Sussex is also testament to the company's scope.
The public sector – from which the majority of Bromcom’s customer base comes – has often been criticised for its slow digital transformation. However, the education sector has recently accelerated its migration to the cloud, which is good news for Bromcom which has been championing (and perhaps banking on) this move for a while.
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Company HQ
Bromley, UK
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Founders
Ali Guryen
(Chairman & Managing Director)Has been involved in Computer Science, Software Engineering & Development since the early 1970s, founding Bromcom in 1986.
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