Digital Product Owner - Level 4 Digital Product Manager Higher Apprenticeship
Thales · South East · RH10 9HA
About the role
Turn your curiosity into a career! 🚀 If you're passionate about building awesome digital stuff, love learning new things, and want an apprenticeship that mixes real-world experience with study, we want you! ✨
What's in it for you?
- 💰 Earn a salary while you learn
- 🛠️ Get hands-on experience in a real workplace
- 📚 Receive expert training and development
- 🎓 Achieve a recognised qualification
- 🏡 Secure a permanent role from day one
- 📚 Tuition fees fully covered!
About the Gig:
As a Digital Product Owner Apprentice, you'll become a pro at defining, prioritising, and delivering amazing products and improvements. You'll be part of our product and delivery squad, working on live projects. Think collaborating with engineers, designers, data wizards, and other specialists to turn user and business ideas into clear goals, well-organised tasks, and measurable results. 🌟
What you'll learn & do:
- Work with experienced Product Owners and teams on real projects.
- Shadow Product Owners to understand what users and stakeholders need, then turn that into clear product goals.
- Help figure out what problems users have and how to solve them.
- Support in organising tasks, spotting potential issues, and making requirements super clear.
- Help make sure our products are on point through demos, feedback, and making things better.
- Chat with users and stakeholders (interviews, surveys!) and summarise what you find out.
- Help draft problem statements and ideas for what makes a product successful.
- Create simple docs like user story notes and FAQs.
- Help with changes, like creating training guides and checking things off a list.
The Apprenticeship:
This is a 24-month programme for the Level 4 Digital Product Manager Apprenticeship. You'll learn through:
- Live virtual lectures 💻
- Online resources 📚
- Self-directed learning activities 🤔
It all wraps up with an End Point Assessment, then you roll into your permanent role at Thales UK.
Entry Requirements:
- 1 A Level in any subject or BTEC equivalent OR Level 3 Apprenticeship
- 5 GCSEs grade 9-4 (A-C) including English and Maths (or equivalent)
Sweet Perks:
- 💰 Competitive salary of £24,000 per year
- 📈 Performance-related pay increases
- 🏖️ 201 hours holiday a year (plus company day and bank holidays)
- 🏦 Contributory Company Pension
- 🏥 Health Care Cash Plan
- 🏠 Hybrid/flexible working options
- 🆘 Employee assistance programme
- 🧠 Learning and development support
- 🎁 Employee discounts and wellbeing perks
- ⚰️ Life Cover
- 🤝 80 Hours Volunteering per year (first two years)
About Us:
Due to the nature of our work at Thales, all roles require security checks. We're all about equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion – it's key to our success!
How to Apply:
Ready to dive in? 🚀 Apply online! You only need to register for one role initially.
- Apply Online 🖱️
- Upload Your CV 📄
- Check your email for the next steps (from recruiting@jobalerts.thalesgroup.com) 📧
- Complete Your Application & Online Tests 🧠
- Virtual Assessment Centre (if you pass the tests) 🤝
- Job Offer! 🎉
Check out Thales Future Talent - Connectr for more tips!
- Assessment centres: February - May 2027
- Induction: September 2027
- Application Closing Date: Wednesday 17 February 2027 at 11:59 pm. APPLY EARLY as roles can close sooner!
Important: You must have the right to work in the UK and be able to pass UK Government security checks (BPSS and SC Clearance). For SC clearance, you'll typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. More info on this will be provided during vetting.
Click "Apply" to find out more and submit your application. Don't wait too long – spots fill up fast! 😉
Key responsibilities
- Working with experienced product owners and teams on live initiatives to learn effective product practices
- Shadowing Product Owners to understand customer and stakeholder needs, translating them into clear product goals and requirements
- Contributing to product discovery, including defining user problems, assumptions and success metrics
- Supporting backlog refinement by collecting input, flagging risks, and proposing reworded requirements for clarity
- Supporting validation through demos, feedback loops and continuous improvement of product outcomes