About the job
Tribal
Tribal Group Plc is a UK-based EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.
We have an ambitious strategy to build upon our position and support the education market evolving to a SaaS model.
We are currently looking for a Product Owner to join our Semestry product team and can contributes to the creation, development and maintenance of Tribal’s product portfolio.
The Role
The role of Product Owner (Semestry) contributes to the creation, development and maintenance of Tribal’s product portfolio, by taking product requirements and driving product delivery through leadership of the day to day development activities. Semestry design and build cloud scheduling and resource management solutions for the education sector.
What are we looking for?
- We’re looking for a motivated, creative and diligent professional ideally with good knowledge and experience of translating the product vision, business strategy and customer requirements into software features and product functionality
- The role requires the candidates to have strong timetabling knowledge and experience
- Good understanding and experience of working with development sprint teams
- Collaborate with development teams to prepare and prioritize story backlogs, determining the order of stories in the functional backlog and regularly reviewing in a manner that fits with the logistics of sprint planning
- Manage the product backlogs to ensure that the product roadmaps, contractual commitments and statutory requirements are met
- Ability to provide key functional knowledge and direction
- Ability to prioritize contractual, statutory and opportunistic changes
Key Skills and Attributes:
- Good knowledge and experience of maintaining software roadmaps developing business, technical and/or functional requirements
- Strong background and experience in timetabling/scheduling software
- Experience of working with development sprint teams
- Good written communication skills including writing technical and business requirement documents e.g. user stories, Business Requirements, Functional requirements
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills with the ability to be able to build and maintain effective collaborative relationships with colleagues and clients
- Experience of maintaining software roadmaps developing business, technical and/or functional requirements
What can Semestry & Tribal Group offer me?
This is an unrivalled opportunity to join a team of driven, meticulous, and passionate professionals, who are challenging the status quo of products that are provided globally to institutions that specialise in education, training, and learning. Our software is world-class, and we believe we give our teams the tools and environment to become world-class individuals too.
Not only will have full access to learning resources to continue to up-skill whilst part of our team, but we offer competitive salaries, a flexible working environment, and a generous range of benefits.
To apply please complete our short application form attaching your most up-to-date CV.
As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector. To safeguard this we are signatories to Tech Talent Charter to better enable us to be a responsible business.
Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.
