Product Owner - Frontline Technology
Product Owner - Frontline Technology
Salary: £50,544 to £59,464 (dependent on experience) Contract type: Permanent Hours: Full-Time Location: Poole, Dorset, England Location description: Hybrid between home and Poole Closing Date: 24-11-2026 Reference: 22202
About us
The RNLI is a charity with the purpose to save lives at sea, with a vision to save every one. We provide a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, lifeguards, fundraising, and drowning prevention. Our frontline lifesavers and fundraisers need a dedicated, professional and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.
We are looking for a Product Owner to join our Applications & Governance team, who will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering digital solutions that support our mission, helping our volunteers and staff to gain and drive value from technology so that we can save every one.
Some of the Benefits
- Hybrid working
- 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Health and dental cashplan
About the role
The RNLI is developing a more joined-up approach to managing and improving the digital products used by frontline teams. The immediate focus includes supporting major products and transformation work, while bringing greater clarity to priorities, roadmaps and ongoing improvement across the wider frontline portfolio.
You’ll help shape how product ownership works across frontline technology, influencing the wider processes, decision-making and relationships needed to support it. This includes establishing effective stakeholder and prioritisation forums, strengthening the use of evidence and user feedback, and helping to build clearer approaches to portfolio planning and continuous improvement.
About you
This would suit an experienced Product Owner who is comfortable working in a complex organisation where not every process or framework is fully established. You’ll need to be collaborative, pragmatic and comfortable with ambiguity, with the confidence to influence across teams while staying clear about what you own and what needs to be delivered with others.
Safeguarding and referencing
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include reference checks at offer stage and relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable) and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One.