Senior Product Owner, WPP Open

Why we're hiring:

We seek a Senior Product Owner to drive agile delivery for WPP Open Production, our AI-powered marketing production platform. You'll translate product vision into actionable deliverables, collaborating with engineers, designers, and data scientists to bring AI-driven marketing solutions to life.

 

What you'll be doing:

Reporting to the Chief Product & AI Officer, you will be responsible for:

• Lead end-to-end agile delivery of specific features/epics within the Production Studio roadmap, collaborating with delivery and engineering.
• Partner with engineering throughout the product lifecycle, removing roadblocks and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with Product Leadership to translate overall product vision/strategy into detailed, executable plans.
• Define, write, and refine detailed user stories and acceptance criteria for features, aligning with product vision.
• Manage and maintain a prioritised product backlog, reflecting strategy, stakeholder feedback, and development capacity.
• Conduct market and customer analysis for features to inform requirements and ensure user value.
• Stay abreast of emerging AI/ML and marketing technology trends to inform feature development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, production) to define epics and user stories.
• Validate, prioritise, and integrate new product requests into the backlog, ensuring alignment.
• Lead validation and design of new product ideas at the feature level.
• Align feature roadmaps and manage dependencies with other product teams.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the development team, providing clarity on requirements.

 

What you'll need:

• Experience as a Product Owner, focused on agile delivery for SaaS platforms.
• Proven ability to translate product strategy into actionable backlogs and lead agile development teams.
• Understanding of AI/ML and marketing technology trends, particularly for feature development.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills; experience in user research and competitive analysis at the feature level.
• Expertise in backlog management, writing user stories, and prioritisation.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear product requirements.
• Certified Agile Product Owner or equivalent practical experience in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Passion for innovation and driving cutting-edge marketing solutions.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

 

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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