Product Owner

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Imagine what it would be like to work at the UK’s leading tech developer to the country’s biggest and best pubs and restaurants? From EPoS to loyalty, CRM to table bookings, stock control, recipe management and BI Reporting giving business critical insights – our tech includes everything an operator needs to run their hospitality business. Our customer obsession shapes our product roadmap. We bring passion for our customers and dedication to innovation to the everyday.

We are very much a family company not just in name. Zonal people work together and look out for each other. Smart, inspiring, forward-thinking people who thrive on building solutions for complex problems. Trusted to be accountable, you’ll find that everyone around you shares a passion for delivering value to our customers and striving to always do better. We provide a flexible working environment with a culture to help everyone achieve their best.​

What you’ll do

We’re looking for a dynamic Product Owner who shares our passion for driving innovation and using technology to build better businesses. We’re going on an exciting journey, and we need more like-minded travellers to help us get there!

Working within a team of cross functional software engineers the Product Owner will be responsible for ensuring their Product is developed in line with the roadmap and strategy meeting customer needs and supporting our development teams.

Taking business and customer needs into consideration the Product Owner will create user stories and work items for the team to implement, working closely with business stakeholders and partners the Product Owner will tailor requirements and specification to meet the need of the target audience.

The Product Owner will be able to analyse systems to help tease out the detail required for the changes that need implemented.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

Contribute to and implement the product strategy and related commercial business cases.

Following Lean and Agile principles, the Product Owner will work closely with all aspects of the business to understand the requirements of the software to solve problems

Evaluate client requests, end user insights, industry drivers, and competitor capabilities to identify enhancements

Write features/ user stories to implement the product strategy, enhancements and customer requests

Drive the process of analysis and estimation within the Software Delivery team to provide a plan

Evaluate regulatory changes to determine how they should be accommodated

Manage product roadmap priorities to ensure development work is prioritised

Collaborate with Sales and industry consultants on sales initiatives

Collaborate with Marketing to effectively communicate value of product and overall solution

Working effectively with senior leaders and functional teams to ensure success of their Product.

Who you are

You will have excellent analysis and problem-solving skills to understand the ecosystem and how each system is integrated to inform the user stories and provide detail that is required. You may have started as a systems analyst, or a business analyst with technical understanding, though no development experience is needed.

You may have had hospitality experience and using Software similar to that of Zonal’s.

Experience working on a Product with APIs and Front End

You may have owned a Product before and been able to feed into roadmaps assessing relative priority.

You will have worked in an environment with Software as a Service products.

You will have excellent project management skills with the ability to operate independently within prescribed guidelines

A “can do / will do” attitude focused on timely results

Excellent people skills with peers, seniors, subordinates and customers and comfortable negotiating through conflict

Ability to multi-task, balancing the customer, product strategy and technical priorities required to deliver competitive products

Hands on approach to the role with the ability to contribute to team projects whilst taking personal responsibility for their success

The successful candidate will possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. They must enjoy understanding systems and how they work so that they can help deliver change to the necessary components

Planning and organisational skills; able to establish efficient and appropriate plans for self and others and adapt quickly and effectively to unexpected changes whilst still ensuring objectives are met.

Customer service; understands and responds to customer needs (internal and external) and exceeds expectations where possible.

Communication and team working; works co-operatively with others to achieve a common goal and communicates information in a clear, concise and accurate manner.

Problem solving and decision making; analyses information appropriately to find best solutions and takes a balanced view to reach logical conclusions and make relevant decisions.

Commercial and organisational focus; demonstrates understanding of overall business and commercial issues facing company.

Commitment to results; is committed to obtaining results through taking responsibility, demonstrating a positive attitude and ensuring quality is built into work.

What we value

Passion, Teamwork, Innovation, Professionalism, Accountability and Customer Obsessed are the values we believe make us the company we are. We’re looking for someone who understands great culture and will help us shape it as it evolves.

About Zonal

If you’ve booked a table or hotel room, ordered and paid for food and drinks, received loyalty offers, or downloaded your favourite hang out’s app, you will likely have used a Zonal product.

We are a family business with Scottish roots. We operate from our modern head office in Edinburgh, our Midlands base in Stafford, our Innovation Centre in Abingdon and hotel management solutions base in Cardiff.