Product Owner (Ignite Learning & Careers Hub)

What will you be doing?

Ignite Hubs is developing the Ignite Learning & Careers Hub, an AI-powered platform that helps children and young people develop skills, explore careers and prepare for the future workforce. The platform combines online learning, career exploration and employability tools within a single digital experience.

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to help shape the development of the platform and ensure our development team is building the right features in the right order.

Working closely with the Founder, Technical Lead, Product Designers and software developers, you will help translate product ideas into well-defined user stories and development priorities.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape a product with the potential to support thousands of children and young people across the UK.

You may support with:

• Working with stakeholders to understand user needs and product requirements
• Translating ideas into Epics, User Stories and development tickets
• Prioritising and maintaining the product backlog
• Writing clear acceptance criteria
• Supporting sprint planning and backlog refinement
• Clarifying requirements with developers throughout development
• Reviewing completed work to ensure it meets requirements
• Helping balance user needs, technical constraints and organisational priorities
• Supporting the ongoing development of the product roadmap

The platform includes features such as:

• Online learning courses
• AI-powered personalised learning journeys
• Career exploration tools
• Skills tracking
• Digital portfolios
• Career and opportunity matching
• AI-powered career insights and chatbots
• Professional development for instructors, volunteers and trustees

What are we looking for?

Essential

• Experience working as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst or similar product role
• Experience working with Agile software development teams
• Experience writing user stories, acceptance criteria and managing product backlogs
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate ideas into practical product requirements
• Passion for creating high-quality digital products

What difference will you make?

The Ignite Learning & Careers Hub is central to Ignite Hubs' vision of connecting learning with future careers and opportunities.

Your expertise will help us ensure the platform is shaped around the needs of children, young people, educators and volunteers. By helping define priorities, organise development work and maintain a clear product roadmap, you will enable our volunteer development teams to focus on building high-quality features that deliver the greatest impact.