Product Owner - SaaS (UK)

We’re hiring a Product Owner to anchor the delivery and execution side of the Kalibrate Location Intelligence (KLI) Product Development Team. In this role you will take full ownership of sprint planning, backlog hygiene, ticket quality, and process discipline. KLI is a data-heavy SaaS platform used by retailers, analysts, and real estate planners—so attention to detail and a love of clarity is critical. 

We’re also entering an exciting new phase of AI-powered innovation across the platform. Experience with AI product workflows, especially Agentic AI Architecture, RAG, CAG, and LLM prompting, will be considered a strong bonus. 

Core Responsibilities 

Run Agile Ceremonies 

• Lead daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives 

• Ensure agile cadence and rituals run smoothly and predictably 

  Own and Maintain the Sprint Board 

• Keep JIRA boards accurate and up-to-date at all times 

• Track blockers, dependencies, and sprint burndown progress 

• Coordinate with the dev team to ensure clarity of tasks and workload distribution 

  Enforce Change & Release Management 

• Ensure all tickets are tagged (Feature Request, Bug, Hotfix, etc.) and linked to the correct release 

• Enforce process discipline for mid-sprint changes and escalation 

• Uphold traceability and audit-readiness of change logs 

  Backlog Grooming & Management 

• Vet and triage incoming feature requests, bugs, and enhancements 

• Categorise and prioritise backlog items with clear structure 

• Ensure all backlog items are sufficiently scoped and dev-ready 

  Sprint Planning & Scope Coordination 

• Define sprint scope based on capacity and roadmap goals 

• Balance delivery across new features, bugs, technical improvements, and internal tooling 

  Collaborate on Ticket Creation 

• Work with developers to flesh out user stories based on specs from the Product Manager 

• Translate functional requirements, design specs, and wireframes into well-scoped JIRA tickets 

• Clarify edge cases, dependencies, and estimate complexity collaboratively 

  Stakeholder Updates 

• Act as primary sprint delivery contact for internal stakeholders 

• Communicate blockers, changes, and progress to cross-functional teams 

  Drive Retrospective Follow-through 

• Capture and own action items from retrospectives 

• Track progress on process improvements across sprints 

  QA & Acceptance Oversight 

• Ensure each ticket meets acceptance criteria before moving to "Done" 

• Coordinate and support QA to ensure validation for readiness to ship 

Ideal Background 

• 2–4 years experience as a Product Owner or Delivery Manager within a SaaS, analytics, or data-heavy product environment 

• Strong Agile/Scrum foundation; must be able to run ceremonies independently 

• Fluent in JIRA: confident with JQL (JIRA Query Language) and can build dashboards for sprint tracking, issue trends, and reporting 

• Comfortable working across technical teams (developers, QA, data engineers) and non-technical stakeholders (support, customer success, commercial) 

• Excellent written communication; experience writing clean, developer-ready tickets with clear acceptance criteria 

• Basic proficiency with Python and tools like Postman (for testing APIs and understanding technical integration work) 

• Experience working in enterprise B2B SaaS, ideally for platforms with maps, analytics, or user-configurable forecasting tools (e.g. economic/financial/demographic forecasting) 

• Exposure to geospatial or location data concepts (e.g. trade areas, POIs, cannibalization analysis, foot traffic) is helpful 

• Demonstrated ability to triage feedback, manage stakeholder expectations, and apply user empathy when shaping backlog priorities 

  Bonus: 

• Experience or familiarity with Generative AI concepts, especially prompting large language models (LLMs) and Agentic AI Workflows. 

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or equivalent certification. 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar project management certification. 

• Experience in UX Design for GIS application. 

• Experience in UX for mobile application (mapping platforms, analytical platforms). 

If this is you, then click that apply button!