Senior Product Owner

Posted Apr 24

Matillion is The Data Productivity Cloud

Matillion helps teams get data business-ready, faster — accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have. 

Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, DocuSign, Pacific Life, Slack, and TUI trust Matillion technology to load, transform, sync, and orchestrate their data for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning, and AI. 

With over $300M raised from top Silicon Valley investors, we are on a mission to power the data productivity of our customers and the world.

We are passionate about doing things in a smart, considerate way. We’re honoured to be named a great place to work for several years running by multiple industry research firms. 

With dual headquarters in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, and an expanding hybrid culture, we are looking for passionate, high-integrity individuals to help us scale up our rapidly growing business.

Role Purpose

The Senior Product Owner works as part of the Product Management team to take ownership of new features and manage the end to end development process. This will involve working closely with the Product, Design, Engineering & Test teams.

What you will be doing

  • Capable of producing a testable hypothesis to solve a real world problem.
  • Skilled at taking real world customer problems and leading a collaborative ideation process to brainstorm solutions.
  • Excels at producing prototype solutions using tools such as Invision, Figma or similar.
  • Able to evaluate and discuss design choices with the UX team.
  • Able to gain actionable insights and feedback from customers in addition to validating any potential solutions.
  • Able to follow a process/framework to make evidence based prioritisation decisions that align to the product roadmap and strategic objectives.
  • Review & triage bugs raised and prioritise them according to severity and importance. Is also able to advise others based on deep product knowledge and/or experience.
  • Excellent use of Story Mapping in order to break down a large initiative into minimum viable changes.
  • Excellent at breaking a epic level items into appropriately sized user stories, with the correct level of detail and acceptance criteria required.
  • Has expert knowledge of the responsibilities of the Product Owner role in a SCRUM methodology and is able to coach others.
  • Able to lead and drive shared understanding in backlog refinement, 3 amigos and sprint planning ceremonies.
  • Able to discuss & evaluate technical architecture recommendations from engineering.

Go to market collaboration

  • Excellent at delivering product demonstrations with from a real world perspective, communicating the value added.
  • Able to produce blogs and videos highlighting new functionality.
  • Able to educate and advise the Product Marketing & Documentation team on new features and release notes.

What we are looking for

  • Working knowledge of product management frameworks.
  • Demonstrable success in a product role.
  • Preferred candidate will have experience of creating or integrating with API’s. 
  • Has knowledge of ETL products and their use cases.
  • Technical understanding of modern Cloud Data Warehousing architecture.
  • Familiar major use cases and ELT design patterns including data modelling techniques used in Data Warehousing.
  • Has practical working knowledge of the core cloud services for storage, compute, database management, networking and messaging

Personal Capabilities

  • Communicating Effectively
  • Collaborative Working
  • Problem Solving 
  • Forward Thinking
  • Achieving Results
  • Steadfastness
  • Technical Aptitude

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Find out more about Matillion and our core company values.

Our Benefits

- A truly flexible & remote working culture

- A culture that promotes work life balance

- Company Equity

- Access to mental health support

- 30 days holiday + bank holidays

- 5 days paid volunteering leave

- Health insurance

- Life Insurance

- Pension

- Career development with monthly hackdays and access to a Udemy account

& much more!

We are keen to hear from prospective employees, so please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

Alternatively, if you are interested in Matillion but don't see a suitable role, please email talent@matillion.com

Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type, Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.