Senior Technical Product Owner

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We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

About the job

As a Senior Technical Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering Kantar’s innovative data platforms. This position is vital in ensuring the seamless development and deployment of one of our latest research products, directly impacting the way we provide insights to clients worldwide. Your contributions will drive technological advancement and maintain our position as an industry leader!

You will be responsible for defining product roadmaps, prioritizing features, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet project goals. Acting as the bridge between stakeholders and the development team, you will ensure alignment of objectives and delivery excellence. Joining a dynamic engineering community, you will work alongside with dedicated professionals, fostering collaboration and innovation to meet organizational and client needs effectively.

Job Goals

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the business domain and strategic product roadmaps to align initiatives with organizational goals.

• Collaborate effectively with Product Managers, Architects, and Software Engineering teams to define platform requirements and drive solution strategy.

• Prioritize and maintain a clear and actionable backlog, ensuring alignment with project milestones and stakeholder expectations.

• Support development teams throughout the software lifecycle by providing guidance, resolving queries, and participating in ceremonies like test design and user acceptance testing.

• Facilitate cross-team collaboration, including organizing integration testing and coordinating deployments for successful end-to-end solutions delivery.

• Create and maintain accurate product documentation, making it accessible for users and developers while ensuring clarity and precision.

• Identify and implement opportunities for improvement across value delivery chains and within the Technical Product Ownership domain.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Shown experience in roles such as business analyst, product owner, or similar, demonstrating the ability to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements.

• A strong understanding of agile development practices and experience delivering products from concept to launch within iterative frameworks.

• Ability to document, communicate, and visualise complex system requirements using tools such as Lucid, Miro, Azure DevOps, or Aha, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.

• Advanced analytical skills to interpret data and derive insights using tools like Power BI, SQL querying, or App Insights, supporting data-driven decision-making.

• Proven ability to align product strategy with organisational goals while handling technical and non-functional requirements, ensuring value delivery across the product lifecycle.

What’s in it for you

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.

• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday

• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.

• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.

• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our Insights division, the masters of using data to resolve challenges. They help brands define what they should stand for, how to reinvent and renew their offer, how to better reach audiences, and how to win with consumers. By blending human insights expertise with the latest technology advances, Insights make sure we can deliver innovative information to brands everywhere.

Why 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 if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

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 works for them. 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.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY 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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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At Kantar 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 also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

We want 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 well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.