Product Owner, Untamed
£75-85k
3 days a week in office
Technology-first pet health company
Be an early applicant
Technology-first pet health company
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-85k
3 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To provide high-quality cat food with human grade ingredients to help cats live healthier and happier lives.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience as a Product Owner in a B2C eCommerce environment
- Previous experience within a startup
- Sufficient understanding of relevant technology concepts (web development, PHP, APIs, RDBMS, AWS, interaction of frontends with backends), so that you can bridge the gap between “business” and “tech” and can effectively collaborate with our engineering team
- Intimate knowledge with Scrum and Kanban and have substantial experience of working with both
- Substantial experience of working with Shopify and product-managing Shopify-related software development. You are aware of Shopify’s key concepts and how it can be customised and extended to meet specific eCommerce requirements
- Comfort using Jira, Confluence and Figma
- Demonstrable experience of performing the tasks outlined in the role description
What the job involves
- Untamed is seeking a qualified Product Owner to assist our Founder Associate and Developers with maintaining and executing a prioritised product roadmap
- Effective end-to-end product delivery typically involves 4 distinct (overlapping) phases:
- 1. Definition and refinement of a product vision and strategy
- 2. Maintenance of a prioritised roadmap
- 3. Execution of the roadmap in close collaboration with engineering and internal and external stakeholders
- 4. Evaluating the success of the production vision and strategy
- Your role within untamed will be to substantially contribute to this process by:
- Working with senior management and other stakeholders to refine the production vision and product objectives on an on-going basis using appropriate inputs and your experience
- Managing the process through which product change and new requirements are received, triaged, and assessed
- Lead the backlog refinement sessions during which roadmap items are discussed and (re-)prioritised, accordingly, using appropriate criteria and inputs
- Ensure that the roadmap remains up-to-date and accurate by removing completed or stale items
- Create appropriate documentation/assets that can concisely but clearly communicate to stakeholders and the engineering team the key aspects of roadmap items and how they are intended to work
- Disaggregate roadmap items appropriately into epics and work tickets for the engineering team and adding those tickets to Jira with sufficient standardised content and acceptance criteria
- Prioritise work into “sprints”, in an appropriate order, given priorities, work in progress, and resource availability
- Work closely with the engineering team to answer questions, provide missing information and unblock progress
- Participate in agile ceremonies taking the lead where appropriate
- Contribute to QA efforts by conducting and participating in UAT
- Keep appropriate documentation for non-trivial aspects to minimise errors and inefficiencies when changes need to be made to non-trivial functionality
- Evaluating success by ensuring appropriate product-related metrics are correctly captured; regularly assessing these metrics against the original vision and objectives; and using insight from these metrics to help revise and refine the roadmap
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Untamed was founded in 2019 to help cats live healthier lives, as a result of the lack of cat foods on the market. It aims to shake up the $75 billion pet industry by providing innovation and love to the overlooked and growing category of cat nutrition. By creating better quality cat food, Untamed is driving a cat food revolution.
Since growing out of the home kitchen, Untamed still focuses on the same healthy recipes, using cuts like chicken breast, chicken liver, tuna steak, mackerel, and salmon to differentiate itself from the processing used by big-name brands. It cooks all of these ingredients through gentle steaming to help preserve moisture and nutrients. Unlike most industry leaders, Untamed allows cat owners to receive a personalised and tailor-made food plan with a science-based approach.
Untamed's growth strategy is based on this approach of providing tailored and high-quality food to consumers, rather than focusing on unhealthy bulk production. Untamed is on the road to raising food standards across the industry, leading by example.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% female employees
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$6.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $6.8m
Company benefits
- 💻 MacBook/PC and any other tech you need to get going
- 👩⚕️ Private Healthcare (with Dental & Optical Cover)
- 💸 Pension with employer contributions
- 📈 EMI-Approved Options Scheme
- 🏝️ 25 days of annual leave, in addition to bank holidays and your birthday off!
- 📚 £1000 annual personal L&D budget as well as regular in-office learning opportunities
- 🏃♀️ Monthly Wellness contribution towards your fitness and health
- 🧠 Free Counselling & Mental Health Care through Spill
- 💭 Unlimited professional and personal coaching through MoreHappi
- 🌟 Paid charity days to give back to causes that matter most to you
- 🐾 5 working days Peternity Leave to welcome a new pet to your home
- 🛩️ 28 working days sabbatical after 4 years with Untamed. Here another 4? Take it again!
- 🐈 Huge discounts on all Untamed products for your furry friends
- ☕️ Free coffee, tea, soft drinks and snacks at our office in the heart of Soho
- 💪 Opportunity in being instrumental to our growth at this exciting stage
Company HQ
Marylebone, London, UK
Leadership
Marco Pacifici
(Co-Founder & CEO)After a degree in Engineering at Warwick, Marco worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst and Associate. After 6 years, he left to found Untamed in May 2019.
Lenny Cordell
(Co-Founder)Former Director at ECO Capacity Exchange, Data Analyst at Union Bancaire Privée, and previously worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Benjamin Spicer
(Co-founder & CMO)Former Executive Director at ECO Capacity Exchange, Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley, and Guest Lecturer at Harvard University.
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