Product Owner - Meta Features

4 Days ago • All levels • Product Management

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Job Description

Pixel Toys seeks a Product Owner to specialize in Meta features for their new cross-platform game. This key role involves managing the product backlog, roadmap, and sprint deliverables. You'll work with a multi-disciplinary team, defining requirements, shaping product success, and presenting work to stakeholders. Experience in Agile environments and strong communication skills are essential. Responsibilities include defining product requirements using sprint goals, user stories, and acceptance criteria; collaborating with internal and external stakeholders; and presenting work during sprint reviews. The role requires excellent organization, process management, and the ability to build team cohesion.
Must have:
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills
  • Agile experience
  • Product backlog management
  • Requirement definition expertise
  • Team collaboration & cohesion
Perks:
  • Competitive salary, reviewed annually
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Up to 3 additional long service days
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Company Pension scheme
  • Death in Service benefit
  • Regular socials
  • Staff training and development
  • Quarterly Wellness days
  • Flexi-time working hours
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Based in the heart of Leamington Spa, Pixel Toys have spent almost a decade pushing the capabilities of mobile gaming. We have developed multiple award-winning titles, including:  Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realm War; and we’re now excited to be exclusively working on a new game, unlike ANYTHING we’ve done previously!

 

As a forward thinking and innovative studio we are always looking for new technologies and techniques to develop and use in our games and make them even more engaging experiences for our customers.

 

We are excited to continue to grow our team and are always on the lookout for highly talented and motivated individuals, who are passionate about gaming and excited to join us on our ambitious journey!




The Role:


We are now seeking a highly motivated and versatile Product Owner to become the ‘go-to’ subject matter expert in relation to the project’s Meta features. In this role you will be a key member of a feature pod; working with a multi-discipline team to deliver the feature-set for sprints and milestones. 

 

Taking ownership of the product backlog and product roadmap, you will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop goals before communicating to them clearly to the team through sprint-sized deliverables.

 

You will define requirements around our feature-set for a high-profile, high-end cross-platform game, helping to shape and define what success of the product looks like. You will then get the opportunity to present our exciting work to customers during sprint reviews.




About you:


Possessing excellent organisation and process management skills, you will have the ability to communicate clearly, as well as influence and build team cohesion and morale; scheduling and hosting regular syncs and roadmap reviews, with confidence in presenting to both the immediate and wider team. 

 

On top of this, you will also have experience of working in an Agile environment, with the ability to demonstrate excellence in defining product requirements though Sprint Goals, User Stories/Epics and Acceptance Criteria. 




What can Pixel Toys offer?


At Pixel Toys we are proud of the progressive, inclusive, and collaborative working environment we have created; a place where everyone has the opportunity to be themselves and is welcomed and valued for who they are and what they contribute. We have some fantastic benefits we offer our employees… Here are just some of them:


  • Competitive salary, reviewed annually
  • 25 days annual leave, excluding bank holidays
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Up to 3 additional long service days (duvet days!)
  • Private Medical Insurance (including optical and dental)
  • Company Pension scheme
  • Death in Service benefit
  • Regular socials including epic summer and Christmas parties!
  • Staff training and development
  • Quarterly Wellness days (On-site massages and more)
  • Flexi-time working hours


Here at Pixel Toys we strive to provide an inclusive environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work and join in driving our joint success. Recruitment selection is based on skills, experience and a good Pixel Toys mission and values fit.

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About The Company

Pixel Toys is a global developer and publisher of market leading digital games and entertainment, founded by industry veterans with a proven pedigree of delivering highly-rated multi-million selling games.

We find the themes that global audiences can engage with, and reinvent them into exciting new experiences which are graphically rich and provide gripping and rewarding gameplay.

Our game environments are beautifully realised, our game characters detailed and believable, and our audio and visual effects as rich as players will have come to expect from their most beloved releases.

We create superior entertainment for mobile, tablet and VR audiences, games which players feel are great value and are excited to play.

England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

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