Product Owner – Data at Scale

Job title:

Product Owner – Data at Scale

Company

Kantar

Job description

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.Job DetailsProduct Owner: Data at ScaleLondonThe global product function leads on the product strategy to fulfil our client needs, in close alignment with markets and owns the overall development roadmap across functions.Kantar Media is a global leader in media research. This includes audience measurement – reporting all viewing on all platforms, consumer profiling and targeting with TGI, and in-depth advertising intelligence. Our versatility, scale, technology and expertise enable our teams to understand the changing media landscape and drive growth for our clients.Job DetailsThe Product Owner (PO) of the Scale team leads and owns the development and performance of the processing and methodology for using large scale behavioural dataset to report on viewing behaviour, and where applicable combining panel data with large scale behavioural data, throughout its entire lifecycle: analysis, monitoring, development, maintenance and continuous improvement.Core Remit:

• Support the shaping of the product strategy for our scale products, current and future
• Support business opportunities with scoping
• Lead and support a cross-functional team looking after the area of RPD/Scale projects
• Roadmap for deployment
• Roadmap for development: All RPD and Scale projects, including:
• RPD Atria data processing software for Numeris
• Fusion software re-code program
• RPD capping and PIV algorithms
• 1st party data. Enhancement machine learning

The PO is a member of the Product Team, that will join the Agile Team, as the one responsible for defining Stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program/solution priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the team.Tasks & Responsibilities

• Support the shaping of the product strategy for our scale products, current and future
• Owns the Team Backlog, provides prioritization
• Take the lead of agile teams as the Product Owner
• Preparation and participation in the Sprint plan. Defines iterations (releases), defines User Stories (create requirements) and refines/updates the team backlog. During the Sprint planning the PO provides the necessary clarifications to assist the team with their story estimates and sequencing
• Track the release progress collaborating closely with the Agile Team, ensuring that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Support the development squad teams to rebalance effort between user story development and defect/ticket resolution, on a daily basis
• Support the development of and the execution of acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria, coordinating all test activities and ensuring that each story meets acceptance criteria
• Analyze and report delivery, progress, risks and opportunities
• Ensure that the technical debt is properly managed, with the support of SW Architecture leads
• Coordinates dependencies with other POs
• Contributes to the Product vision/strategy and Roadmap
• Understand, challenge, and communicate the product vision/strategy developed by Product management to the Agile development team and feedback to Product Management
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog that relates to the solution backlog owned by the Product Manager, according to business value or ROI

• Build Product Documentation

Your profile and key skills we are looking for

• Established background in developing, launching software or services in partnership with engineering and data science teams and high degree of proficiency in prototyping, iterative development, understanding of Agile principles
• Strong analytical abilities, problem-solving skills and functional understanding of customer business processes
• Have strong communication and leadership skills to navigate in a dynamic/global organization across multiple countries
• Teamwork and team-player
• Knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies, Product Owner certification or similar is a plus
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Capable to collect, interpret and translate data to support product and business decisions (incl. A/B testing, User Testing, Analytics, Market Research, Competitor Analysis, Defining Metrics and KPIs)
• Attention to details
• Excellent organizational and time management skills. Ability to multitask and work under pressure
• Are highly proficient in spoken and written English (we are an international team), other languages is a plus

Qualifications & Knowledge

• Experience in the audience measurement business
• Experience with Agile and possibly SAFe frameworks for software development
• Experience working with agile teams and aligning with stakeholders to deliver with fast time-to-market, quality and ownership

• Experience in data science techniques, statistics, analysis and visualization of data is always nice to have

Our offerAt Kantar Media we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.Kantar Media wants to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We are committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate because of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.Interested? Apply today or get in contact with to learn more.LocationHybrid working – London Grays Inn Road and remoteSkaleSkale 70Privacy and Legal StatementPRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager(s) and for consideration for potential future opportunities by Kantar and its affiliate Kantar group companies. For full details of our privacy policy please visitCountryUnited KingdomWhy join Kantar?We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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Location

London

Job date

Wed, 08 May 2024 22:13:43 GMT

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