Location: Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire - Hybrid (2-3 days on site)
Salary: Up to £75,000
The Company
This is a fast-growing British technology manufacturer producing a range of connected smart home devices centred around a main communications hub that allows homeowners to monitor, control and optimise the devices in their home, from EV chargers and solar diverters through to home battery storage. The products talk to each other, to the cloud and to mobile apps, giving customers full visibility and control of how they generate, store and use energy. The company is well established, growing internationally, and the firmware development function sits at the heart of everything they build. This is a genuine product role inside an engineering-led business that still moves quickly.
The Role
The business has a Product Manager who owns the commercial roadmap , the market insight, competitive analysis and strategic priorities for each product line. What they need now is someone to take that roadmap and run with it on the firmware side: breaking it down into a prioritised backlog, writing user stories, managing sprint ceremonies and keeping a single shared firmware development team pointed in the right direction across all products simultaneously.
The firmware team has separate backlogs for storage products, chargers and in-life updates. You will own and manage all of them, working closely with the equivalent Product Owner on the mobile app side and the backend (AWS) team to identify and resolve cross-dependencies as features are developed. You will be the person who keeps the firmware delivery process moving, running the sprints, refining the backlog, writing the tickets and making sure the team always has clear, well-scoped work in front of them.
What You Will Be Doing
Owning and managing the firmware backlog across all product lines, storage, EV charging and in-life firmware updates.
Taking roadmap items from the Product Manager and translating them into clear, prioritised user stories and development tickets.
Running sprint ceremonies: planning, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives with the firmware development team.
Aligning continuously with the Mobile App and Backend Product Owners to surface cross-team dependencies before they become blockers.
Reporting on sprint velocity and delivery progress to engineering leadership.
Working closely enough with firmware engineers to understand and challenge technical estimates, and to represent technical complexity credibly to stakeholders.
Being the connective tissue between what the business wants built and what the engineering team is building.What We Are Looking For
The job title on the door is Product Owner and this is an Agile delivery role, but the context is a firmware engineering team building embedded software for connected hardware. The person who will thrive here is someone who either comes from an embedded or firmware engineering background and has moved into Agile product delivery, or has a strong Agile Product Owner track record on hardware and IoT products. The key requirement is that you can walk into a room of firmware engineers and be credible.
Essential:
Proven experience as a Product Owner or Scrum Master working within an Agile (Scrum or Kanban) software development team.
Confident writing user stories, managing backlogs and running sprint ceremonies using tools such as Jira.
Experience working on hardware, IoT or embedded software products ,you need to understand what firmware is and how it is developed.
Ability to manage dependencies across multiple product streams and align with parallel product teams.
Strong communication skills, equally comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and discussing technical detail with engineers.Desirable:
A background as a firmware or embedded software developer, someone who has made that transition into Agile delivery or product ownership.
Experience in smart home, energy management, EV, IoT or any connected device environment.
Familiarity with the relationship between firmware, cloud/AWS backend and mobile app delivery teams.What You Will Get
Up to £75,000 base salary.
Hybrid working,a mix of on-site in Cleethorpes and remote, with flexibility around the right candidate.
Free on-site EV charging.
Employee Assistance Programme including free 24/7 UK-based counselling and wellbeing support.
A role inside a product team that is genuinely shaping how smart home energy technologyworks, at a company that is growing fast and building products people care about.
If you have owned a firmware or embedded software delivery backlog in an Agile environment and want to do it for a product that genuinely makes a difference to how people use energy at home, we would like to hear from you
Salary description
£60000.00 - £75000.00 per year