Job Title: Product Owner – Session Border Controller
Location: Coventry
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Job type: Permanent, Full time
They are the world’s leading cloud native communications Software Company, whose award-winning solutions help power more than 1,000 service providers and mobile operators, providing highly scalable and fault tolerant systems that run right in the core of their networks. They’re internationally renowned for their exceptional technology, cutting-edge innovation and first-rate support – qualities they maintain by only recruiting, and retaining, the very best people.
The Engineering team is the company’s beating heart and forms over half of the 900 employees – they are first and foremost an engineering company built on a community of driven, smart people who want to work in leading edge technology and make a real difference to the industry. There’s a strong company ethos for on-time delivery of top-quality and high-performance products within a non-political culture.
The Role:
The Company’s industry-leading session border controller product, Perimeta, is a cloud native, carrier class, solution that protects voice networks from attack whilst maintaining performance, even under heavy load, and is architected to handle distributed signalling and media.
Due to the growing success of this product, they are looking to recruit a highly talented and technically minded individual into the Perimeta agile development team to fill a role as a Product Owner.
The successful applicant will get involved with everything from working with Product Management to understand the market and customer requirements, building a backlog based on the changes required to achieve the product vision through to inspiring and helping the team to deliver on their commitments.
Key Responsibilities
- Developing and communicating a vision for their product area
- Managing their product backlog(s)
- Deciding what the team(s) should work on and when
- Making and delivering on commitments
- Providing leadership to help ensure the team(s) are motivated and engaged
The Candidate:
For this position, you will need the following skills/attributes.
- A degree and a versatile and creative mind with excellent problem-solving ability
- Previous Product Owner experience in one or more agile teams
- Self-motivation, inventiveness, energy and self-discipline
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- A proven ability to lead a small team but also happy to ‘roll up their sleeves’ to help and support others to deliver team and organisation goals
- Good organisational skills with the motivation to own, plan and deliver projects.
You’ll often work closely with technical team members, so the following are useful but not essential.
- Experience of VoIP, mobile and core telecoms software
- Experience of commercial software development and all parts of the development process
- Knowledge of a variety of development tools and applications
- Product management experience.
The Package:
They’re incredibly proud of the company culture; a collaborative working environment where free and open dialog is welcomed and internal politics is avoided at all costs. The aim is to seek out the better, faster and simpler solution, while supporting, challenging and developing each other.
Your initial salary will reflect your exceptional skills and ability. They also offer a competitive package of benefits including a substantial bonus plan, company share plan, a non-contributory pension, life insurance and private medical insurance plans, plus a flexible holiday policy.
The Company is proud of the focus on and commitment to employees, and that staff retention is exceptionally high. It’s a company that appreciates and looks after people which is demonstrated in a number of ways including regular funded “morale events” from lunches or evenings out with your team to weekends away.
Every employee has a career development plan with no limitations on the direction your career will take with the Company.
If you have any further questions, please get in touch.
The company want to be an awesome place to work and know that when employees are trusted to manage their work/life balance, not only does it support their well-being, but increases their engagement and ultimately enables them to perform their role better. They’re pleased to take a flexible approach to working, and if you’re looking for some variability in your schedule, you’re encouraged to have this conversation with your interviewer!
The Company is an equal opportunities employer.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role, they look forward to hearing from you.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Agile Product Owner, Production Developer, Digital Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Agile Project Manager, Product Manager, Commercial Project Manager, Project Planner, Planning Manager, Production Developer, Senior Product Executive, Project Manager, Project Management, Product Market Strategist may also be considered for this role.
