Product Owner

Overview

Turn product ideas into well-scoped, well-designed features that nurseries use every day.

At Ovivio, we build software that helps childcare and education professionals spend less time on administration and more time with children.

In the UK, our nursery management platform supports nurseries and nursery groups with everything from enquiries, registers and funding to safeguarding, learning and parent communication, while NoodleNow, our e-learning platform, helps teams complete the training they need.

We're looking for a Product Owner to turn our product priorities into features our engineering team can build with confidence.

You'll join our Product organisation with a dedicated engineering team, working closely with our Product Manager, Product Designer and architects. You’ll have shared ownership on the backlog, scoping and prototyping features with the help of AI, and supporting the team through delivery, turning complex opportunities into well-designed solutions which customers proactively use.

What you'll work on:

Backlog & Prioritisation

• Shared ownership and maintenance of the product backlog for our nursery management platform and our e-learning platform - keeping it clear, ordered and ready for development.
• Break roadmap priorities down into epics and user stories, and help plan what goes into each sprint.
• Weigh customer value, effort and dependencies when ordering work, and flag risks early.
• Contribute to the roadmap with what you learn from customers and the team.
• Scoping & AI Prototyping
• Gather requirements from nursery managers, practitioners and colleagues in Customer Success and Sales.
• Write clear scopes, user stories and acceptance criteria, including edge cases, that engineers can build from with confidence.
• Use AI tools to draft specifications and build interactive prototypes, so ideas can be validated before development starts.
• Work closely with our designer to make sure features are intuitive, consistent with our design system and a pleasure to use.

Sprint Delivery & Quality

• Be the go-to person for engineers during the sprint, answering questions quickly and keeping work unblocked.
• Take part in refinement, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Run user acceptance testing and accept work only when it meets the agreed criteria.
• Work with the engineering lead to define the scope and timing of each release.
• Demo new releases to Customer Success, Marketing and Sales, so they’re ready to support customers.

AI Features

• Scope AI-powered features, turning use cases into clear, testable requirements.
• Help define how these features stay accurate and safe when working with children's data.
• How you'll work

You'll work in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly. You'll bring structure and calm to the team's day-to-day work, partnering with engineering leads who own technical design and implementation.

• Translate customer and business needs into clear technical and product priorities.
• Coordinate teams, manage dependencies and proactively resolve blockers.
• Balance customer value, commercial opportunities and technical complexity.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs together with engineers and architects.
• Align priorities and commitments within our Product, Technology and Marketing teams.
• Use AI as part of your everyday workflow, from requirements and analysis to specifications, prototypes and documentation.

What success looks like

Features go into development well scoped and well designed, engineers trust your stories, sprints run smoothly with few surprises, and what we release works the way customers expect.

About you

• Proven delivery: You've led complex B2B software initiatives across multiple teams, from planning through launch and adoption.
• Strong ownership: You take responsibility, manage dependencies and drive initiatives to completion.
• Product judgement: You understand customer needs, prioritise effectively and make informed trade-offs.
• Technical judgement: You can evaluate technical trade-offs and constructively challenge engineers and architects.
• Attention to detail: You write precise requirements, think through edge cases and test thoroughly.
• AI proficiency: AI is part of how you work every day, and you know where it adds real value. You use it to automate as much repetitive work as possible, such as drafting user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases and release notes, summarising customer feedback, and building interactive prototypes or simple internal tools. You know what good output looks like: you review, fact-check and refine everything AI produces, so nothing generic or inaccurate reaches the team or our customers. You use AI responsibly, especially around sensitive data, and keep up with new tools and share what works.
• Eye for design: You care about usability and visual detail, know what makes an interface work and can build credible prototypes yourself.
• Hands-on experience with Figma and AI prototyping tools.
• Experience with agile ways of working and tools such as Jira.
• Substantial Product Ownership or Product Management experience, ideally in B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Fluency in English.

You don't need to be an expert in every technical area. Strong product thinking, technical understanding and delivery ownership matter most.

What we offer

• Base salary £52,000 per annum depending on experience.
• 26 days of annual leave.
• Hybrid working - three days from our London office (Northwood Hills) and two days from home.
• Professional development opportunities.
• An informal, international working environment.

Interested?

Our recruitment process typically includes:

• An introductory conversation.
• A Product interview.
• A Technology interview and team introduction.
• A live case with our Vice-president of Product.

Pay: £52,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Northwood HA6 1NW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• This role requires working from our office in Northwood (HA6 1NW) 3 days per week. Are you able to commit to this? Please confirm by typing Yes or No in the field below.

Experience:

• Product Owner or Product Manager: 2 years (required)

Language:

• Fluent English (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Northwood HA6 1NW