Key Work Benefits
We take the health and happiness of our employees seriously and we’re consistently searching for new ways to make mkodo the best place to work. From retirement planning to a wellness offering supporting mental & physical wellbeing.
Remote/Flexible working
Generous Holidays
Tech Scheme
Employee Assist Program
Bonus and Profit Share
Birthday Off
Team Socials
Pension Contribution
The Role - Product Owner
If this is the opportunity you have been waiting for, to work in a fast-paced company with cutting-edge technology, please send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Apply HereKey Skills and Attributes
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate product vision and requirements
- Can make decisions based on facts
- Ability to lead and inspire the scrum team, stakeholders and mkodo
- Ability to work with internal and external customer/stakeholders at varying levels
- Experience in software delivery, specifically scrum software delivery lifecycle
- Drive the pace of changes delivered to the market
- Represents mkodo to the public in customer events, demonstrations and trade shows
About the Role
The product owner is the product champion and represents the customer, stakeholders and mkodo. The product owner has the responsibility of management of the product backlog and is the final decision maker for prioritisation. The product owner is the expert user and ensures the product creates value for customers, users and mkodo and drives the product vision. As product owner, you will create processes and a prioritisation scoring matrix, to aid prioritisation and ensure the product vision is being implemented and released to customer efficiently.
Main Responsibilities
The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team This will include:
- Creating and implementing product owner processes for efficient
- Defining scoring matrix for prioritising product backlog items.
- Prioritising the product backlog to deliver high value items to market
- Ensuring the product backlog is accessible, visible and clearly communicated to all
- Understanding and representing the target customer using domain and industry knowledge
- Promote and champion the product internally and externally
- Decision maker on accepting items into the product backlog
- Co-ordinate and communicate requests from customers, stakeholders and mkodo for product improvements
- Ensure internal scrum teams always know the next item to be delivered
- Defining and describing the required user experience on product features
- Ensure product information is relevant, up to date and accessible to stakeholders
- Attend all scrum ceremonies
More benefits
mkodo is a great place to work, with excellent benefits comprising:
- Hybrid/Flexible Working
- Quarterly team events
- Birthday Holiday
- Christmas Day-Off
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Tech Loan Scheme
- Performance bonus & profit share scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Travel Loan scheme
- Supplies of fresh fruits, cereals, biscuits, nibbles, etc. in the offices
- Relevant training and training budget.
- Digital Nomad Policy
- Generous refer a friend scheme
Graduate development journey
Day 1
Grads onboarded as a cohort and focus on specific roles
First 2 weeks
Onboarding sessions and initial training
2 weeks
Grad team project with mentoring support
3 months
Grads present project to execs/senior leadership team. Start more compex project.
6 months
Present second project to the execs/senior leadership team. Grads join a client project team. Tech debt and support issues.
9 months
Start contributing to client deliverables.
12 months
Graduate from Grad scheme and become billable resource.
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Recruitment Process
For our web, Android and iOS engineering roles, we follow the below process:
For our roles, we follow the below process:
For our graduate roles, we follow the below process:
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Technical Exercise
You will be invited to a partake in a Pair Programming session with two of our Engineers, to assess your level of technical and coding abilities
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
Skills Assessment
You will be invited to a second stage in the process to meet with more members of the team, and to show off your skills in your area of expertise. There will be the opportunity to ask any questions, and find out more about the role, and also to discuss your experience in more detail.
Final Interview
A final meet with our HR team, and a Head of Engineering - also the chance to ask any questions about the role, and what it's like to work at mkodo
Offer
We make an offer to the person we feel most suitable for the role and business
Review
We review applications and screen against our requirement criteria
Intro call
Successful applicants are invited to a 30-minute chat with a member of our team to get to know you a little, and tell you more about the role
1-hour interview
You're invited to a second interview with developers you'll work with. It's a no-code whiteboard session to evaluate your problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills. Show us how you tackle challenges!
Offer
We’ll make offers to the successful graduates to join the cohort in early September
or send your CV to jobs@mkodo.com
Graduate Developer Scheme
mkodo operates its own 4-time, award-nominated graduate developer scheme across London and the Northeast. Check out our grad scheme page to learn more.
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