Project & Delivery
Product Owner Jobs & Careers
Looking for your next Product Owner opportunity?
HOK Consulting connects Product Owners with organisations delivering digital products, software platforms and complex technology change across permanent, contract and interim opportunities.
Whether your experience covers product backlogs, Agile Delivery, Scrum, stakeholder management, user stories or Software Delivery, explore current opportunities or upload your CV to join HOK’s technology talent network.
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What Does a Product Owner Do?
Product Owners represent business and user priorities within Agile delivery teams, helping determine what should be built, improved or delivered next.
The role commonly involves managing and prioritising the product backlog, defining user stories and acceptance criteria and working closely with technology teams to ensure delivery remains focused on valuable outcomes.
Product Owners often work alongside Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Delivery Managers and stakeholders, providing clarity on requirements while balancing user needs, technical constraints and wider organisational priorities.
Product Owner Skills & Experience
The exact requirements vary between organisations and products, but Product Owner roles commonly involve experience across areas such as:
- Product Ownership
- Product Backlog Management
- Backlog Prioritisation
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
- Agile Delivery
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Stakeholder Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Roadmap Management
- Software Delivery
- Digital Transformation
- Technology Transformation
- Business Change
- Jira
- Confluence
- Sprint Planning
- Backlog Refinement
- User Acceptance Testing
Product Owners may specialise in digital products, software platforms, financial services technology or wider enterprise systems, while others work across broad technology transformation programmes.
Strong communication, prioritisation and decision-making skills are particularly important when balancing stakeholder requirements with technical constraints and ensuring delivery teams remain focused on the highest-value work.
Typical Product Owner Responsibilities
- Defining and communicating product priorities
- Creating, managing and prioritising the product backlog
- Writing and refining user stories and acceptance criteria
- Working with stakeholders to understand business and user requirements
- Supporting sprint planning and backlog refinement
- Providing delivery teams with clarity on requirements and priorities
- Making prioritisation decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Reviewing completed work against agreed acceptance criteria
- Supporting user acceptance testing and product releases
- Working closely with Scrum Masters, Business Analysts and engineering teams
- Maintaining alignment between delivery activity and product objectives
- Using feedback and delivery insight to guide future product improvements
Responsibilities vary depending on the organisation, product and whether the role focuses on software, digital services, financial services technology or wider enterprise transformation.
Product Owner Salary Expectations
Product Owner salaries vary according to experience, location, sector, product complexity and the scale of the technology environment being supported.
Permanent Product Owner
Around £67,500 per year
UK median advertised salary
Contract Product Owner
Around £525 per day
UK median contract rate
Senior Product Owners and professionals with specialist financial services, digital transformation, software platforms or complex enterprise product experience may command higher salaries or contract rates.
Salary information is provided as a general UK market guide and can vary significantly between individual roles.
Product Owner Career Progression
Product Ownership can lead into senior product, delivery and wider technology leadership positions.
Typical Product Owner Career Path
Alternative Career Paths
Product Owners may also progress into roles such as:
- Delivery Manager
- Business Analyst
- Agile Coach
- Programme Manager
- Transformation Lead
- Head of Product
The right progression depends on whether you want to deepen your product expertise, move into wider delivery leadership or take responsibility for broader technology and transformation strategy.
Your Next Move
Looking for Your Next Product Owner Opportunity?
If you’re considering your next permanent position, contract assignment or interim opportunity, send HOK Consulting your CV.
Tell us about the products you’ve owned, the technology environments you’ve worked across and the type of opportunity you’re looking for.
Specialist Recruitment
Project & Delivery Recruitment
Product Ownership forms part of HOK Consulting’s wider Project & Delivery recruitment expertise, connecting organisations with professionals across project management, programme management, business analysis, Agile delivery, change, transformation and complex technology delivery.
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Recruiting Product Owners?
HOK Consulting supports organisations looking for experienced Product Owners across permanent, contract and interim requirements.
Whether you’re developing a digital product, modernising an enterprise platform, scaling Agile delivery or supporting a wider technology transformation, speak to HOK about your requirements.