Product Owner
Descrizione dell'offerta
Title: Product Owner – Digital Delivery
Type: Contract (4 months minimum - extension likely
Location: Italy - Ideally occasional onsite in Turin
About Ovyo
Ovyo is a B2B services company providing flexible engineering teams and talent solutions to the streaming, media, satellite, and communications industries. With a global footprint across the UK, India, Portugal, South Africa, Brazil, the US, and Eastern Europe, we work on a mix of long-term client engagements and fast-paced consulting projects. Our teams build the platforms that shape how the world consumes video and connects — while accelerating their own careers along the way.
The Role
We are seeking a Product Owner to join our Digital Delivery team, delivering best-in-class web and app solutions for innovative, industry-leading clients.
As a Product Owner, you will be an integral part of one or more project teams, involved across the full product lifecycle — from discovery through to delivery, run, and maintenance. You will work closely with both client and internal stakeholders to ensure delivery efficiency and that client expectations are consistently met.
Responsibilities
- Act as Product Owner within Scrum teams
- Collaborate with Delivery Leads to create, refine, and maintain product backlogs aligned with client and business needs
- Assess value, develop business cases, and prioritise stories, epics, and themes to maximise delivery impact
- Own backlog management, sprint planning, and user story elaboration
- Ensure teams always have well-defined and ready work items
- Proactively identify and mitigate impediments to sprint and release goals
- Stay up to date with Agile/Scrum best practices and emerging trends
- Manage risks and issues, including identification, prioritisation, mitigation, and escalation
- Conduct ad-hoc research and business analysis to evaluate opportunities and risks
- Represent the customer voice, ensuring delivery of meaningful value
- Lead backlog grooming, prioritisation, and cross-functional coordination
- Define and analyse metrics to measure product and delivery success
- Support and motivate cross-functional teams, maintaining strong team health
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Owner or Senior Business Analyst
- Experience delivering digital products (web and/or mobile applications)
- Experience working on B2B or B2C projects (enterprise, back-office, or user-facing platforms)
- Strong business acumen with solid technical understanding
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Deep knowledge of Agile methodologies and principles
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strong organisational and time management abilities
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and critical thinking
- Fluent English (written and spoken)
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders
- Familiarity with Jira or similar tools is a plus