Product Owner

The Product Owner will be responsible for the ongoing engineering management of Kraken platforms as an operational product. 

The role focuses on maintaining product integrity post-deployment, managing engineering change, supporting customer engagement, and ensuring continued compliance with regulatory and certification requirements. 

You will act as the focal point for all product-related queries and changes, ensuring that modifications are controlled, justified, and aligned with operational needs, safety requirements, and business priorities. 

Product Ownership & In-Service Management 

• Maintain a clear understanding of deployed configurations across platforms 
• Manage the product backlog for enhancements, fixes, and customer-driven changes 

Engineering Change Management 

• Support the Engineering Change Request (ECR) process 
• Assess, prioritise, and coordinate changes across multidisciplinary teams 
• Ensure changes are impact-assessed 
• Support change control boards 
• Maintain configuration control and ensure documentation is updated accordingly 

Certification & Compliance Support 

• Support certification and regulatory approval activities for in-service platforms 
• Act as a focal point for certification queries, modifications, and change implications 
• Support updates to safety artefacts (e.g. hazard logs, FMECA, safety case) where changes impact risk 

Delivery & Operational Support 

• Ensure engineering changes are appropriately verified and validated before release 
• Coordinate fix implementation, upgrades, and retrofit activities 
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of complex system issues 

Documentation & Configuration Control 

• Ensure product documentation reflects the current configuration baseline 
• Support development and maintenance of technical documentation and release notes 

• Experience in a systems engineering or product ownership role 
• Understanding of engineering change and configuration management processes 
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary stakeholders 

• Experience in the maritime domain 
• Experience with autonomous systems 
• Experience manging systems in operational service 

• Collaboratively, working closely with engineering, operations, safety, and commercial teams
• Pragmatically, balancing technical constraints, operational priorities, and business outcomes
• With ownership, taking accountability for decisions and driving work through to completion
• Transparently, communicating clearly with stakeholders and escalating risks where needed
• Iteratively, continuously improving processes, products, and ways of working
• Responsively, adapting to changing priorities in a fast-moving, operational environment

• Work on impactful, operationally critical platforms
• Be part of a collaborative, engineering-led environment
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation across products
• Shape the lifecycle of complex systems from deployment through to optimisation

• 25 days holiday per year, plus paid bank holiday
• After two years’ consecutive service, one additional day’s annual leave up to a maximum of five additional days annual leave
• Holiday buy/sell, up to five days per calendar year
• Flexi working, core hours 10:00 to 15:00, subject to departmental requirements
• Private Medical Insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution, there is no cap on the employee contribution level
• Life assurance 3x salary
• Group Income Protection 3x salary, subject to eligibility
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement

Due to the nature of our work many of our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance.  Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to Government security checks.

Kraken Works Limited is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities to all.  Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.