Senior Product Owner

The role

You will own and manage complex, high-impact product backlogs for a specialised capability within WPP Open. You will turn product strategy into prioritised epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and lead delivery with the engineering and design teams.

What you will do

• Own and prioritise complex product backlogs that support the product strategy and roadmap.
• Turn strategic objectives into epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Define measurable outcomes for each initiative and track progress against them.
• Refine requirements with engineering and design and identify technical dependencies.
• Act as the main source of truth for product requirements and user needs.
• Orchestrate the agile team and resolve impediments to delivery.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog refinement and sprint reviews.
• Gather user feedback and product data, and feed insights back into the backlog.
• Communicate progress and the rationale behind decisions to product leads and stakeholders.
• Act as an informal mentor to less experienced Product Owners and Product Analysts.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of progressive experience in product ownership or a similar role.
• Track record of driving complex product features from definition to launch and beyond.
• Experience owning and prioritising complex or high-impact product backlogs.
• Deep domain expertise in a critical product capability.
• Strong understanding and practical experience of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to turn high-level strategy into clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to influence cross-functional development teams.
• Strong analytical mindset that uses data and user feedback to inform decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Track record of delivering features from concept to release across multiple sprints.

Nice to have

• Agile certification such as CSPO or SAFe PO/PM.

Benefits

• Passionate, inspired colleagues.
• Scale and opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects.
• Challenging and stimulating work with creative problem solvers.

Before you apply

• Accommodations or flexibility can be discussed with the hiring team during the interview process.

About the company

WPP is a growth partner for leading global brands, combining media intelligence, creativity, production and strategic counsel. It operates across 100+ markets and builds the WPP Open agentic marketing platform.