Product Owner at RDT in Kings Hill, Kent

Job Description - Product Owner

Position Overview

Working in your product domain, the Product Owner is responsible for the product roadmap and backlog, managing through to epics, stories and driving an agile process. You will be overall accountable for the delivery of the right product, on time and within budget.

The Product Owner is the customer representative and champion on the team, making sure that the team understands who and why they are building for, the pain points and benefits desired.

You’ll have a passion for ensuring that the products and features you build are adopted in market, driving demonstrable value to our clients and revenues for RDT.

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for delivering the transformational automation capability, ensuring that the workflows, eventing, integrations and APIs come together to automate critical insurance journeys for our customers.

Setting the product vision and clearly communicating and engaging on this with the team
Identify the business value of a minimal viable product and minimum marketable features
Prepare, document and manage project reporting of budgets and forecasts to meet RDT’s company objective and budget
Assist with the estimation of new products and or change requests
Manage stakeholder engagement and expectations directly with the customer agreeing product backlog priorities, aligning these to release plans then communicating the progress
Make day-to-day decisions under the directions set by the stakeholders and remove business related impediments raised by the team
Sprint planning, deciding what needs to be done in the release through collaboration with the team
Attend daily stand-ups to answer questions from the team members
Participate as a member of the team for the teams continuous improvement in Sprint retrospectives and follow through on assigned actions
Be available to answer questions as they arrive, so that the team keeps moving forward un-impeded
Participate in RDT’s product development process from idea generation, screening, idea evaluation, development through to commercialisation
Actively work with other product owners and business analysts to maximise the value delivered by all teams

Technical Skills & Requirements

Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Product Owner, preferably in the insurance industry.
Proven ability to deliver commercially viable solutions that balance customer value and business objectives.
Experience defining and iterating MVPs in fast-paced delivery environments.
Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools a bonus
Requirements gathering, user journey mapping
Interest in applying AI to streamline insurance workflows, improve automation, or enhance customer experience.
Brings a UX-first mindset, with a strong track record of using user testing and feedback to inform product decisions and deliver intuitive, high-impact experiences

Competency Requirements

Strong analytical, problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Excellent planning skills with a strong ability to balance trade-offs between customer value, technical feasibility, and business goals.
Great interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

Benefits & Opportunities

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Private health with BUPA
Pension
Staff discount scheme

Company Overview

RDT is a focused and successful agile software company. It has been working in the UK insurance market for over 30 years and in this time has been delivering highly innovative software and consulting solutions. RDT prides itself on being a disruptive force in the insurance market and has been at the forefront of many pivotal technology innovations.

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Product Owner