Description
Associate Director, Product Owner - Corporate Security is responsible for maximising the value of Corporate Security products within the Legal, Compliance & WREF domain.
They work closely with business stakeholders to define outcomes and ensure delivered functionality is usable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to product strategy.
The Corporate Security Product Owner guides Product Analysts and works with delivery teams to ensure requirements are clear, value-driven, and data-informed, while overseeing iterative delivery that improves product performance, adoption, and operational readiness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities.
- Own and manage the Product backlog for all Corporate Security products.
- Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity.
- Lead the Product team's delivery activities, guiding Product Analysts and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers.
- Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist.
- Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals, and support effort.
- Ensure product changes follow required digital & tech management systems security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering).
- 15 to 19 Years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.
- Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements and managing a product backlog.
- Experience working within Corporate Security technology domain.
- Experience deploying C-Cure 9000.
- Experience of Cloud infrastructure hosting for Security systems.
Preferred Skills:
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Skilled in coaching and guiding Product Analysts and delivery team members.
- Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data to identify opportunities for process simplification, automation, and improved user experience.
- Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements.
- Strong analytical mindset, able to weigh value, risk, complexity, and cost to make prioritisation decisions.