Product Owner

Product Owner Edinburgh (Hybrid) | £60,000 | Permanent | Mid/Senior Our client is a GovTech company delivering digital licensing and permitting services on behalf of the Scottish Government. They're looking for a Product Owner to own the day-to-day running of the backlog, keep delivery moving, and ensure the engineering team always has clear, well-defined work in front of them. The Role This is an operational product ownership role sitting at the intersection of service design, engineering, and client delivery. You'll sit inside the delivery team, attend standups, run refinement sessions, write stories, resolve blockers, and make the decisions that keep sprints on track. You'll be the person engineering turns to when something is unclear, and the person who ensures what gets built reflects what users and clients actually need. You'll work closely with the CTO to shape and prioritise the backlog, and with engineering to ensure items are well-scoped, understood, and deliverable. What You'll Do Own and maintain the product backlog — groomed, prioritised, and ready for delivery at all times Write and refine user stories with clear, testable acceptance criteria Run and facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and sprint review sessions Work with engineering daily to clarify requirements, unblock delivery, and support sprint execution Triage incoming requests from clients and internal teams into well-defined backlog items Work with service designers and user researchers to…