As a Junior Product Owner at Motorola Solutions, you will play a key role in refining and expanding the Guardian call-taking and dispatching platform, a critical system used by emergency services across the UK and Europe. Working within a Scrum team, you'll help translate product vision into development-ready tasks, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, impactful software that supports first responders during life-threatening situations.
What You'll Do
- Capture and document customer requirements, including business process analysis, technical analysis, etc.
- Develop and maintain a prioritized product backlog, ensuring it reflects stakeholder needs and business value.
- Work closely with the development teams to ensure the delivery of valuable product increments.
- Collaborate with the Product Management team to define the product vision, roadmap, and strategy.
- Partner with your Product Manager to refine the roadmap and break down complex features into achievable, independent and valuable units of value.
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, UX, and other Motorola teams.
- Communicate product updates, progress, and risks to stakeholders.
- Participate in and lead engineering Scrum events.
What We're Looking For
- A high level of communication skills - written and verbal.
- A good level of technical understanding - with the ability to communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Well organised and disciplined in approach to work and time management.
- Knowledge of agile product development.
- Entrepreneurial instincts.
- A critical eye for detail and willingness to challenge the status quo.
- Capable of working with engineering and QA teams to ensure high quality, predictable sprint output.
- 5 years UK residency, required for security check.
Nice to Have
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
- Experience with UK bluelight (police and fire) Control Room operations.
- Experience working with UI/UX teams to define personas, userflows and story maps.
- Some knowledge of React, Typescript, Node.js, Electron.js, C# or .Net. Broader concepts could include APIs.
Technical Stack
- React, Typescript, Node.js, Electron.js, C#, .Net, APIs
Team & Environment
- Team of around 150 employees, distributed across the UK with hubs in Glasgow, Leicester, and London.
- Part of the Guardian team focused on call-taking and dispatching platform development.
- Reports to Product Manager.
- Culture emphasizes a close-knit community, people-first values, and a relaxed but hard-working environment.
- Jeans and t-shirts are the norm; good ideas and open debate are encouraged.
- Empowering every employee to be their most authentic self, with a shared focus on building a safer future.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes
- Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus)
- 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Flexible working options
- Private medical care
- Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities
- Employee health and wellbeing support (EAP, wellbeing guidance, etc.)
- Carbon neutral initiatives/goals
- Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days
- Well known companies discount scheme
Work Mode
- Hybrid work model
- Primarily remote with travel to UK offices and customer sites as needed
- Frequent in-person work and social events
- Daily work is remote and often asynchronous
- Locations: UK, Glasgow, Leicester, London
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
