Lead Product Manager - OVO Drive (6 month FTC)

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Salary banding:  £73,550 - £90,000

Experience: Experienced

Working pattern: Full-Time - 6 month Fixed-Term Contract

Reporting to: Head of Product & Tech - OVO Drive

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Innovative, Collaborative, Challenging

Top 3 qualities for this role: Creativity, Communication, Adaptability

 

Your next OVO adventure:

At OVO, we recognise that great people are already working with us across all of our brands. Find out more below about whether this role might be the next part of your OVO adventure.

You may not have all of the skills and experience boxes ticked, but if you think you have much of what we’re looking for, then we’d love to hear from you.

 

Teamworking for the planet:

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We’ve made good progress on the UK’s path to net zero. But we can do better. Research shows that 100% renewable energy tariffs aren't actually making the grid greener. We have to go further. We need to save energy, use power at smarter times of the day and look at other ways to help our customers reduce their carbon footprint.

That’s where OVO Drive comes in, it's our dedicated electric vehicle business. We already provide hardware installations, home & public charging but we want so much more, we want to build a single app experience that covers everything an EV driver could need this role will play a huge part in that.

We work like a start up- using our entrepreneurial, OVO Way spirit to drive us forward. And we’ll be flexible about how we do it - trying new things, growing the ones that work and learning new, green skills as we go.

 

This role in a nutshell:

Sitting in the OVO Drive department this role will oversee the evolution of one of OVO’s flagship products, OVO Charge. This includes ideating, scoping and validating new features and products, optimising the UX through careful customer research and taking a central part in the planning and prioritisation of the team’s work.

 

Your key outcomes will be:

• Lead a small team of Product Managers, providing day to day advice and support as well we guiding them through their career progression
• Accountability for timely and reliable delivery of your work and your team’s work as well as their performance. Provide direction and hands-on technical guidance to your team, making sure key processes are understood, documented, and followed.
• Own and scale a range of web and mobile based products for B2C and B2B customers
• Identify areas for improvement by utilising data tools such as Google Analytics, Firebase and our data warehouse querying tool
• Validate solutions with design and engineering to ensure problems are targeted with effective and scalable solutions
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria to convey details about complex tasks clearly and concisely
• Regularly engage with users to gather feedback on changes made to the product in a previous release or to validate proposed changes in a prototype format
• Create a vision for the products you own and scale them according to a roadmap prioritised by user and business value
• Continuously improve on ways of working to foster an efficient software development lifecycle
• Business alignment: Work with design and engineering teams on developing team priorities based on the company’s business strategy
• …probably many more things we can’t even predict at this point.

 

You’ll be successful in this role if you…

• Have proven experience as a Product Manager in an end-to-end role, owning pro