Product Manager / Product Owner
About this role
What we do
We are passionate believers in the power of education to transform people’s lives. We help students finding, applying to and enrolling in the right study program. Our multi-sided platforms help over 100 million prospective students every year find their ideal match among thousands of partner institutions, across a global network of hundreds of student websites.
It is a complicated and diverse problem space. We work hard to understand the needs of each student and each institution, and use technology and data to recommend the best matches for both.
About the role
Our Data & Insights squad builds the data products that Keystone runs on. These include analytics and reporting tools that help education providers measure and improve their recruitment performance, a shared data platform and business KPIs for leadership, and AI-supported tools for creating and publishing program and institution content.
You will decide what that engineering team builds and in which order. You will turn the strategic direction set by management into a roadmap the squad can deliver.
The role starts as Product Owner and is designed to grow. The aim is for you to become a full Product Manager from around month 9, owning a product area outright.
Responsibilities
- Own one prioritised backlog across all Data & Insights products, refined weekly with the Engineering Manager and readable by anyone.
- Take each product owner’s outcomes into quarterly planning and leave with a plan the engineering team has sized and agreed.
- Decide on priority conflicts between stakeholders during the quarter and keep a decision log with the reason and owner for every pause, trade-off and change.
- Write clear acceptance criteria for every epic and decide whether delivered work meets them. Communicate releases to stakeholders.
- Manage product risks, such as scope, priority and dependencies on other business areas, and make priority decisions on blockers quickly.
- Run a regular sync with the product owners that end