Product Owner

Be part of a team where your passion will help our customers achieve extraordinary things with software and data, and own some of the most innovative and exciting products being developed today! 

About Us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our offices. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office.

About the role 

We’re growing our team of Product Owners to help our customers do extraordinary things with software and data. If you’re looking for a role where your product ownership expertise will be used in meaningful and impactful ways, then Ascent is the place for you. You’ll be part of an experienced team of highly skilled product owners, and work with some of the most talented software and data professionals around to do amazing things, whether it’s helping to make medical research easier and scalable, creating technology that helps protect biodiversity, or make homes smarter. 

What you'll do 

Product Owners at Ascent work at the heart of creating extraordinary products for our customers. Product Owners here at Ascent are full-stack and look after all aspects of product management together with our customers. You’ll be accountable for things like: 

• Defining the vision of the product 
• Driving the product strategy 
• Creating roadmaps and prioritizing the most valuable items 
• Managing the development backlog 
• Working closely with the development team on a daily basis 

You’ll define, analyze, and react to product metrics (such as Analytics, A/B testing, and Pirate metrics) to provide valuable client guidance if things need to change and work in partnership with your internal project team to keep closely aligned and in sync. We believe in MVP-first and fail-fast approaches to prove a hypothesis using experimentation with feedback for confirmation and solution validation, and we’re comfortable with emergent design rather than design upfront. 

We work with a diverse range of customers across a multitude of different sectors, and you could be working on a large-scale, complex digital transformation project over a long term, or on some smaller scope engagements. 

The skills and expertise you’ll bring 

We want to find experienced and knowledgeable product owners, from all kinds of domains and industries to build broad capability for our growing team. You’ll need to have: 

• Strong role experience as a product owner, working with agile software development or delivery teams 
• Experience of working with Digital Teams in pharmaceutical organisations (nice to have) 
•  Understanding of Clinical operations process and Clinical feasibility process, with ability to drive all feasibility and site identification activities related discussions with business users (nice to have) 
• Drive experience design activities to improve user interfaces and task flows through wireframing, prototyping and ideation workshops. 
• Work with UX designers, data engineers, data scientists, biostatisticians and technical architects to map dependencies, refine the requirements and render them ready for implementation 
• A well-rounded skill set in applying Product Owner fundamentals – using various prioritization techniques, able to write down User stories and define acceptance criteria of them, helping to build roadmaps 
• Expertise in managing end-user UX/UI-oriented products 
• You’ll need strong stakeholder management skills and be able to communicate clearly and precisely to people who may not be technical.
• Be highly self-motivated, forward-thinking and like to explore new ways of applying existing and new technologies to solve Business problems 

Working at Ascent 

We choose a hybrid working style, where you can spend time at the office, with customers, or working at home in a balance that suits you and how you work best. We are offering a competitive base salary, plus contribution to your pension, life assurance, 25 days holiday plus public holidays on top, and some other great benefits.

We help businesses connect data, software, and purpose to drive extraordinary outcomes. You could say we do digital transformation. But we’d rather say we help people solve problems, or do new things, or do existing things better. We’re a scaling company, which means there are a lot of opportunities for you to have an impact on your team and the wider business by collaborating and supporting each other. With our amazing portfolio of customers, you’ll contribute to high-quality software and data projects across the business and work with colleagues who are capable of brilliant things. 

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are real priorities here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation during your application process please let us know.