Join Kainos and Shape the Future
At Kainos, we're problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we're transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together. We believe in a people-first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference.
About the Role
At Kainos, we provide innovative and creative products designed to help Workday customers reduce risk and maximize their Workday investment. Our solutions include Workday testing, compliance, data masking, and document management. As a business with a proven record of year-on-year growth and over 500 customers, we have multiple exciting opportunities for Product Owners across each of our growth products.
As a Product Owner at Kainos, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our market leading Workday solutions. You'll own the product backlog across one or more functional areas, ensuring we stay at the forefront of the industry. This means you'll gather and prioritize product and customer requirements, and work closely with our development, sales, pre-sales, marketing, and professional services teams to surpass customer satisfaction goals and maintain our leading market position.
This is your chance to make a significant impact and leave your mark on our products and services during this exciting growth phase, with ample opportunities to advance into senior roles within the Workday Products business or the wider Kainos organisation.
Responsibilities
•Understanding customer needs, personas and why they engage with your product
•Becoming an expert in the problems we solve for and "why" they matter
•Running structured workshops with customers and internal stakeholders
•Defining and building solutions to address customer needs
•Defining the benefits your solutions deliver and how to measure success
•Knowing your competition and how to stay ahead of them
•Launching products and features, including organising and enabling internal teams such as delivery, pre-sales, and onboarding to maximise impact
•Supporting roadmap delivery and the product backlog; creating actionable user stories for development teams
•Supporting the prioritisation of the backlog to ensure goals are met
•Identifying and measuring the success criteria for each delivered feature
•Defining and communicating release acceptance criteria for each product feature, including the criteria for MVP
•Measuring, tracking and improving non-functional aspects of the product
•As required, stepping in to support sales efforts with product demos and customer discussions on more technical aspects of the product
Requirements
•Experience of leading and architecting Workday based solutions
•Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team, including excellent user story creation skills, articulating business needs in a format easily consumable by the scrum team
•Excellent communication skills: a persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills, able to listen, understand, and build on others' viewpoints
•Enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation, prepared to take advantage of flexibility to challenge and be proactive in bringing new ideas to how we work and to the product roadmap
•An eye for detail, particularly to interpret supplied information and understand sources and challenge where necessary
•Comfort and ability to engage with customers (including internal) to understand requirements, and support functional or technical product discussions
•Prior Workday implementation or management experience
•Experience with Product Management in a Workday context
