Product Manager - Data Warehousing

almost 2 years ago
Full time role
London, England, GB... more
London, England, GB... more

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OVO Energy is an independent energy technology company and supplier. The company was launched in 2009. OVO Energy is set ...

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Job Description

Location: Any of our offices or Home Based

We’re making zero carbon happen

We’re OVO Group, a big family of companies united by a single vision: to get to zero carbon, fast. 

We call this Plan Zero – and it shows how we’ll be fighting the climate crisis and transforming the way people use energy over the next decade. To do this, we need the sharpest minds. Are you up for the challenge?

Do great green things with OVO Energy

So much has changed since we launched in 2009.  Our goal remains the same though: make energy cheaper, greener, and simpler. Just as it was on day one.

Everyone belongs at OVO

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive movement: teams of brilliant people, with unique talents, skills, passions, and experiences. 

We encourage everyone to join us, whatever your gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, life experience, or background. So please come as you are – we can’t wait to meet you.

Where in the world of OVO will I be working?

OVO is a heavily data-driven organisation with an ever-growing demand for excellent quality, reliable and accurate data to power our business: our Senior Leadership team prioritising investment, our Product teams working out the best way to serve and delight our customers in a highly regulated and competitive market, our Data Science teams building insights to help customers reduce their carbon impact by analysing their smart meter data.

The Data Warehousing team is part of OVO’s Data Platform function. The team is responsible for building a cloud-first data warehouse collating all of OVO’s most important data together into a consistent data model, providing hundreds of analysts and data scientists across the business with the data they need to build dashboards, models and data products, that ultimately drive the way that OVO supports its customers on their net zero journey. 

  

What will I be doing?

As the Product Manager for the Data Warehousing team you will:

  • Own the Vision: you will be responsible for owning the long term vision, and driving the quarterly roadmap for the data warehouse
  • Know your Customer: you will build strong relationships with business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists and engineers from across OVO teams to understand their perspectives of working with OVO’s data, and represent their voices into the rest of your team
  • Align, Prioritise and Measure: As per OVO’s Product and Tech culture, you will use OKRs and agile methodologies to break down work and ship value to the business via continuous delivery, actively measuring outcomes against goals, and iterating towards your product vision state
  • Support your Team: You will work alongside a dedicated and highly skilled team of engineers, supporting them with the right prioritisation, to deliver value from the warehouse in line with OVO’s data strategy
  • Collaborate and Share: You will work closely with other Product Managers in the Data Platform space and elsewhere, identifying opportunities to further enhance the overall platform offering to engineers, analysts and data scientists, and ensure alignment of programmes of work to minimise dependency and maximise pace

Is this the job for me?

You will work as part of a growing set of teams focused on building this platform, providing the rest of the business with the data they need, at the speed and in the format they need it. 

  • Develop an excellent understanding of the needs of your various diverse stakeholders across OVO, and their use cases for analytical data
  • Define their problems and requirements, ideally finding common areas of pain/benefit to drive the greatest benefit for minimum effort
  • Break down and prioritise tasks by quantification of cost and effort against the benefit to the business
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure the priority calls you make are in line with strategic business direction
  • Support the engineering team using Agile methods to plan and deliver work 
  • Champion your product in and outside of your team to ensure the greatest reach and impact across OVO

Do I have what it takes?

  • A product manager with a passion for data and an analytical mindset
  • Love working with teams in areas like data engineering, analytics, or data science
  • Enjoy making sense of complex domains and sharing that understanding with others
  • Understand and embrace the highs and lows of teamwork in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to pivot to new priorities effectively
  • Feel at home collaborating with engineers and business leaders alike
  • Find joy in cutting through opinions with data and evidence
  • Know that building something great together takes resilience, perseverance, and a growth mindset
  • Recognise that everyone has their own strengths and seek ways to bring out the best in yourself and others
  • Know when it’s best to write something, say something, or show something to communicate your ideas
  • An ability to drive the delivery of cross-functional teams, ideally with Scrum, Kanban and other Agile methods
  • A focus on quality and accuracy when building data products
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts simply to business and technical stakeholders at all levels

Brilliant benefits for a world-changing team

Our people are at the heart of Plan Zero. That’s why we offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to make you feel at home.

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

Then there’s Flex Pay. It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

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