Product Owner

1 month ago


Canberra, Australia Local Peoples Full time

Local Peoples is seeking enthusiastic and talented Product Owner in the ACT to join our team as embedded members with our prestigious Government client. The Product Owner is responsible for ensuring the capability developed in a multi-disciplinary agile development team achieves value for the client agency’s business areas and end-users. The Product Owner will work closely with business SMEs, service designers, BA, delivery managers and other product management staff to ensure best practice design and development standards are applied and that solutions for modernised products and services meet standards of quality.

The Product Owner will be a key member of the Product Management Centre of
Excellence (CoE), which includes other Product Owners, Product Mangers, and other
product staff responsible for assurance and solution management. The Product
Owner will be responsible for coaching and mentoring product staff seconded from
business areas in the discipline of product management, and providing expertise on
best practice product management to the broader CoE.

The Product Owner will bring proven expertise in managing a bespoke product
throughout the product development lifecycle. In particular, the Product Owner will be
experienced in service and solution design in the early phases of product
development and able to lead a design process.

**Roles & Responsibilities**:

- Be a Product Owner for one or multiple bespoke products, following productmanagement best practice to prioritise work in order to deliver maximum value.
- Working with a delivery manager, lead a multi-disciplinary agile team through the design, build, test and release of bespoke products.
- Develop and coach other product staff seconded from internal business areas.
- Provide expertise and advice to the Product Management Centre of Excellence (CoE).
- Design the solution components in line with scope and associated parameters ensuring the design is fit for purpose at each stage.
- Liaise with internal program stakeholders including design leads, technical leads,solution architects, enterprise architects as part of developing the overall design, development, and implantation of products.
- Facilitate internal AEC stakeholder engagement related to design of system components.
- Identify of risks and issues providing support for mitigation where needed.
- Provide input to the overall program schedule identifying key milestones and resource requirements related to product design execution.
- Work closely with the Delivery Manager and Product Manager to ensure on time and efficient delivery.

**Essential Skills & Experience**:

- Significant experience in product development in supervisory capacity in a Product
- Owner or Product Manager position, including coaching and development of less experienced product staff
- Significant experience in the solution design of bespoke solutions, with an ability to refine scope based on user insights, business need and technical complexity
- Strong networking skills and an ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
- Proven ability to communicate effectively whilst responding to stakeholder needs and expectations across a geographically dispersed network.
- Ability to manage business expectations while achieving outcomes
- Demonstrated personal integrity whilst achieving results within legislative and policy parameters.

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications in a related field
- Experience in electoral event planning and/or delivery

**Residency & Clearance**:

- Must be an Australian citizen
- Must be open to work in ACT
- Hold a current Baseline Clearance or be able to obtain one

**Who are Local Peoples?**

Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.

Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.

We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.

**Benefits of working with Local Peoples**:

- We are experts in team design and augmentation - supporting with the right skills and experience at the right time.
- We are leaders in the human centred design space with diverse design skills across brand design, service design, User interface (UI) and User experience (UX) design, design research, communications and place design.
- We are a certified B-Corporation and prioritise the social, environmental and economic impact of our work.
- Our people always have the full support of the studio to call upon for des


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