Platform Product Owner

We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.

For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.

Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.

Lightsource bp operates with five core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability, and Drive.

We seek to attract and hire individuals who share our commitment to creating a safe workplace, uphold the highest standards of integrity, and demonstrate respect for colleagues, communities, and the environment. Our recruitment process promotes sustainability by valuing long-term growth and responsible practices, while seeking candidates with the drive to innovate and lead in the global energy transition.

Together, these values shape how we engage, assess, and welcome talent to join us in delivering transformational solar power solutions worldwide.

Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.

Summary of the Role

As the vital, hands-on bridge between the business and the IFS delivery team, the Platform Product Owner takes full ownership of translating strategic business objectives into a clear, actionable platform roadmap that drives real, measurable impact. This dynamic and proactive role thrives on driving initiatives forward with urgency and focus, fostering seamless collaboration across diverse business units to ensure IT delivery is tightly aligned to the organisation’s evolving goals and priorities.

With a strong delivery mindset, the role will be deeply involved in end-to-end platform capability delivery, taking accountability for outcomes and swiftly resolving roadblocks. Acting as the guardian of requirements and backlog prioritisation, they expertly balance competing demands to maximise efficiency and responsiveness, while shielding technical teams from distractions and unnecessary disruptions.

This role demands a driven, solutions-oriented leader who champions continuous innovation and relentlessly pushes scalable solutions that unlock tangible business value. Through assertive stakeholder engagement, Agile best practices, and a commitment to delivery excellence, the Product Owner accelerates the pace of platform evolution to power the organisation’s strategic success.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously evolve the strategic roadmap for the IFS platform, reflecting the business’s objectives, priorities, and evolving needs.
• Act as the delivery focused liaison for key business units, engaging stakeholders to gather and validate requirements, facilitate cross-department prioritisation, and lead business forums focused on aligning priorities, roadmap progress, and delivery performance.
• Communicate delivery plans, progress, and changes transparently across all stakeholders to ensure alignment and drive consistent realisation of business value.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, technical feasibility, and stakeholder expectations.
• Oversee business readiness for deployments, coordinating with change management, communications, and training teams to maximise adoption and benefits realisation.
• Champion agile delivery principles, ensuring well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and defect resolution processes.
• Facilitate continuous improvement feedback loops between business users and the technical team to enhance platform value and usability.
• Ensure platform compliance with security, data privacy, and enterprise governance standards, mitigating risks associated with knowledge sharing and retention.
• Define KPIs, track platform performance, monitor feature adoption, and iterate on the product based on quantitative and qualitative data.
• Actively participate in  Agile/Scrum ceremonies (planning, refinement, demo, and retrospectives), providing clarity on user stories and acceptance criteria to development teams.
• Partner closely with the Technical Lead and delivery teams to ensure technical and business alignment, balancing feasibility, capacity, and strategic value.
• Monitor market and internal trends to anticipate shifts in business priorities and incorporate them into the platform roadmap.

Required Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Platform Owner in complex enterprise IT environments, delivering scalable and high-impact solutions.
• Strong business stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to build consensus and align diverse cross-functional teams around a common vision and objectives.
• Expertise in strategic planning, and product roadmap development, ensuring initiatives align with organisational goals and deliver measurable business value.
• Proficient with industry-standard tools such as ServiceNow, Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), Azure DevOps (ADO), or equivalent product and portfolio management platforms.
• Deep Agile methodology expertise, including backlog prioritisation, sprint planning, iterative delivery, user story creation, and continuous stakeholder engagement.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and negotiation skills, capable of facilitating effective dialogue between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Strong decision-making ability, balancing competing priorities and leveraging data-driven insights to guide product and platform strategy under tight deadlines.
• Exposure to asset management platforms, preferably IFS or comparable enterprise systems, is highly desirable for integrating and optimising platform capabilities.
• Proactive mindset with a customer-focused approach, continuously seeking process improvements and innovative solutions to enhance platform performance and user satisfaction.
• Previous Business Analyst experience an advantage

Desirable Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving aptitude.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to drive initiatives forward.
• Customer-centric approach with a passion for delivering business value.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams, business users, and third-party vendors.
• Comfortable leading meetings, workshops, and steering committees.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible. 

Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired: Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.

Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/