Product Owner (Edinburgh, UK)

About us 

We’re Dayshape, an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.   

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.  

Why our customers love Dayshape:  

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.    

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.    

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work.    

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.  

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team - driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk. 

About the role 

At Dayshape, we’re investing heavily in our product and need your help to deliver on our ambitious roadmap. This role is all about turning vision into reality, ensuring that planned features are delivered effectively, on time, and to the highest quality standard.

We have big plans to make Dayshape the most powerful, flexible, and rapid-to-deploy solution in our sector, and you’ll play a key part in making that happen.

As a Product Owner, you’ll be embedded in one of our multidisciplinary teams, working closely with Engineering, QA, support and the wider product department. Your primary focus will be delivery—making sure roadmap features move from concept to reality, smoothly and efficiently.

You’ll work alongside Product Managers and Technical Leads to ensure that priorities are clear, requirements are well understood, and progress is maintained.

Our multidisciplinary Product Development teams work across a broad spectrum of product deliverables, but visions and plans mean nothing if they aren’t delivered, and your role will be to steer that delivery, by understanding the requirements and customer value of each feature.

What you’ll do 

• Own the day-to-day delivery of roadmap features within your team.
• Work very closely with the Tech Lead and Product Manager to consider the capacity, capabilities and characters of your team; working together to plan and prioritise the delivery of the work with the team.
• Create, maintain, and prioritise the product backlog, which includes user stories, features, and defects.
• Write clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can act on confidently.
• Actively identify and mitigate risks or roadblocks that could impact delivery.
• Review and test new features with QA to ensure they meet customer needs and quality standards.
• Share product knowledge internally and externally, answering questions and clarifying requirements.
• Participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews).
• Champion good software development practices and ensure delivery aligns with technical and UX standards.

The role will require a highly organised and adaptable communicator with strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of software development practices to ensure the effective delivery of complex product features in line with the roadmap.

About you 

You will have a passion for delivering enterprise-grade products that improve people’s working lives. You will: 

• Have strong analytical and business process skills, with experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Have demonstrable experience as a Product Owner (or equivalent role) in a technology company.
• Be highly adaptable—comfortable moving between internal stakeholder meetings, customer calls and technical discussions
• Be an exceptional communicator, able to build trust, challenge others and explain complex ideas clearly.
• Understand software development fundamentals and be comfortable discussing technical concepts.
• Have experience working with Atlassian / product management tools such as Jira and Jira Product Discovery, Miro, etc…
• Intelligent and quick to grasp new concepts, and always looking to understand the underlying “why” in any situation.
• Be detail-oriented and logical, able to break down large challenges into manageable steps.
• Operate effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Dayshape is hiring multiple product owners with different experience / expertise levels.

• For one role it would be essential to have hands on experience with API’s including documentation and integration development
• For the other, we are looking for a more generalist ideally having worked with front-end development teams.

Bonus Points if you:

• Have worked in/with the professional services industry.
• Have experience with complex financial or project management software.
• Understand product analytics and how to use data to inform decisions.

 
What you’ll get 

• Salary £45,000 - £60,000 dependent on experience  

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development  

• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days  

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement  

• Enhanced family leave policies  

• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality  

• Income protection and death in service cover  

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme  

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service  

• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project  

• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work  

• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication  

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!  

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company  

Working Details 

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we’re happy to be flexible around this. If you’d like a flexible working arrangement, please just let us know in your application.

We’re ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, able to work on a hybrid basis between home and our Haymarket office. We don't mandate required office days, but we find that most of the team enjoy working from the office 2-3 days a week to connect with their team and other Dayshapers, to make use of space, and for meetings and collaboration. 

Join the team! 

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it’s a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background. 

Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand 

The deadline for applications is 9am GMT on Wednesday 17th December, with interviews taking place over the following couple of weeks.