Product Specialist

Role overview

What you’ll do

• Lead product specification for core builds and create detailed specifications and AI-assisted prototypes.
• Manage a core product backlog in Azure DevOps; groom, prioritize, and size items with the Product Manager.
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria for development, testing, and release.
• Maintain user guides, release notes, onboarding materials, and process documentation.
• Turn client and service feedback into structured backlog inputs.
• Join sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement across product lines.
• Support go-to-market materials, feature descriptions, and release communications.
• Collaborate with Delivery, Technical Leads, Engineering, and the Product Manager.

What the employer is looking for

• Hands-on Agile backlog management and participation in sprint ceremonies in a product, business analysis, technology, AI, or software role.
• Strong writing skills to translate complex requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and specifications.
• Confidence with AI prototyping and requirements tools, including vibe-prototyping platforms.
• Structured, detail-focused documentation and backlog management; able to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Knowledge of GenAI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic AI, including what AI agents can and cannot do.
• Practical understanding of SaaS or AI product development, release management, and versioning.
• UK work eligibility is required; visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Desirable experience

• Product Owner experience is desirable.
• Azure DevOps Boards or equivalent backlog tooling experience is desirable.
• Hands-on AI or vibe-prototyping experience is desirable.
• Local government or public-sector service delivery experience is desirable.
• CSPO or PSPO Product Owner certification is desirable.

Workplace and travel

• Remote within the UK, with occasional travel to Basingstoke and client sites.

Package

• Salary up to £35,000.
• £100 monthly working-from-home allowance.
• Vitality Healthcare Plan, pension scheme, 25 days’ holiday, and support for relevant professional development and qualifications.