Product Owner
Join Us
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.
What you’ll do
• 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.
Who you are
• 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.
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
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
Who we are
We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.
Together we can.