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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
Job Responsibility
Own and prioritise backlog items across multiple delivery squads, ensuring alignment to agreed product outcomes, dependencies and sequencing
Translate product strategy, goals and feature intent into clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteria that teams can confidently deliver against
Co‑define, embed and continuously evolve Ways of Working with developers, engineers and delivery leads, shaping how teams plan, refine, deliver and review work
Balance delivery speed with quality, operability and technical sustainability, making informed trade‑offs where required
Lead and facilitate backlog refinement and iteration planning across squads, ensuring work is ‘ready’, well understood and aligned to delivery capacity
Make day‑to‑day backlog, scope and sequencing decisions, escalating only where trade‑offs exceed agreed governance or impact broader product outcomes
Act as the primary point of clarity between Product intent and technical execution, resolving ambiguity and reducing friction across squads
Support alignment across squads to ensure consistent delivery approaches, shared standards and predictable outcomes
Escalate feature‑level conflicts, risks or exceptions to the Senior Product Manager / Head of Product via agreed governance routes
Requirements
Proven experience as a Product Owner working across multiple squads or teams in complex delivery environments
Strong collaboration skills with developers, engineers, technical leads and delivery roles
able to work as a peer rather than a proxy
Practical experience shaping, embedding and evolving agile Ways of Working (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or hybrid models)
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, driving alignment and momentum without relying on formal authority
Strong facilitation, prioritisation and decision‑making skills, particularly in multi‑team contexts
Demonstrated technical product ownership at scale, owning and refining backlogs, translating feature intent into buildable scope and driving predictable delivery
Systems thinking mindset, with an appreciation of re‑use, configurability, operability and the long‑term impact of delivery decisions
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Security and external partners
Experience supporting multi‑market or multi‑tenant delivery environments
What we offer
Yearly bonus: 10%
Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
Charity days: 5 days/year
Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%
Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan