OVO Group is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Since launching in 2009, they have welcomed over a million members, planted a million trees, and set their sights on helping save the planet. They are on a mission to change energy for the better, including driving progress towards the target of net zero carbon living.

The Tech org at OVO is entering an exciting growth phase, which includes hiring across all their data squads throughout the rest of 2024 and early 2025. This includes aProduct Manager for Data Warehousingwho will not only lead the vision and strategy for OVO’s core data warehouse but will also help define the vision for data products across the wider data organisation.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

As theProduct Manager for Data Warehousingyou will:

•Lead the vision and strategy:Own the vision and strategy for OVO’s core data warehouse, ensuring that they are building the right thing, the right way, and prioritising based on impact

•Be a key contributor:You’ll help define the vision for data products at OVO more broadly, working alongside the wider data community to make it a reality

•Know your Customers:You will build strong relationships with Analysts, Data Scientists and Engineers from across OVO teams to understand their perspectives of working with OVO’s data

•Align, Prioritise and Measure:As per OVO’s Product and Tech culture, you will use objectives and key results alongside agile methodologies to break down work and ship value via continuous delivery, actively measuring outcomes against goals, and iterating towards your product vision state

• Collaborate and Share:You will work closely with other Product Managers in the Data Platform space and elsewhere, finding opportunities to further enhance the overall platform offering to Analysts, Data Scientists, and Engineers, and ensure alignment on programmes of work to minimise dependency, maximise pace, and help realise the Data Strategy

KEY OUTCOMES WILL INCLUDE:

• Setting the direction for the core data warehouse whilst helping to define the vision for all data products across OVO, to better enable the Analyst and Data Science communities

• Develop an excellent understanding of the needs of your various diverse data consumers across OVO, and their use cases for analytical data

• Define their problems and requirements, ideally finding common areas of pain/benefit to drive the greatest impact

• Work with stakeholders to ensure the priority calls you make are in line with strategic business direction

• Support the engineering team using Agile methods to plan and deliver work • Champion your products in and outside of your team to ensure the greatest reach and impact across OVO Requirements

YOU’LL BE A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT MANAGER AT OVO IF YOU….

• Are a Product Manager with a passion for data

• Love working with teams in areas like data engineering, analytics, machine learning or data science

• Enjoy driving change at scale

• Focus on quality and accuracy when building data products

• Have an ability to explain complex technical concepts simply to business and technical stakeholders at all levels

• Feel at home collaborating with engineers and business leaders alike

• Find joy in cutting through opinions with data and evidence

• Know that building something great together takes resilience, perseverance, and a growth mindset

• Recognise that everyone has their own strengths and seek ways to bring out the best in yourself and others

• Know when it’s best to write something, say something, or show something to communicate your ideas

• An ability to drive the delivery of cross-functional teams, ideally with Scrum, Kanban and other Agile methods

BONUS POINTS FOR:

• Experience of using and building data products, perhaps as part of a Data Mesh implementation

Experience of cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform

• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, BigQuery & Miro

• Conversant in data quality principles, their importance to the business and their complexities

If you tick most but not all of the requirements, OVO would still love to hear from you!

COMPENSATION/BENEFITS:

• 1 year fixed-term contract, with a competitive salary range of £60-75k

• On-target bonus of 15%

• 34 days holiday including bank holidays

• Pension matching up to 5%

• Flexible working as standard

• Enhanced parental leave policies

• 9% cash flex fund which can be used towards a variety of benefits (pension top-up, annual leave top-up, gym memberships, healthcare cash plan, workplace ISA, etc.)

• OVO community – opportunities for L&D and community involvement