Virgin Atlantic Apprentice - Digital Product Owner 2025
VIRGIN ATLANTIC AIRWAYS LIMITED
West Sussex (RH10 9DF)
Closes in 20 days (Sunday 20 July 2025)
Posted on 30 June 2025
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Summary
We believe the best jobs make you fly—so what better way to launch your career than with a 24-month Virgin Atlantic Apprenticeship in Analytics, Data and AI? You’ll gain hands-on experience, industry-recognised qualifications, and make a real impact from day one.
- Wage
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£26,255 a year
- Training course
- Digital product manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm but a degree of flexibility will be required.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 October 2025
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Maintain and refine the product backlog in alignment with the roadmap
- Write clear user stories and define acceptance criteria alongside the squad
- Participate in agile ceremonies and sprint rituals to support timely delivery
- Collaborate with engineers to ensure features meet user needs and business goals
- Analyse product performance data and customer feedback to recommend improvements
- Partner with UX and data teams to iterate on features and designs
- Communicate updates and gather input from stakeholders across the business
- Support your Product Manager with planning, prioritisation, and strategy discussions
Where you'll work
Company Secretariat - The VHQ
Fleming Way
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 9DF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CAMBRIDGE SPARK LIMITED
Your training course
Digital product manager (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
- Diagnose problems by breaking problems down systematically into component parts and identify the relationships between those parts.
- Reflect critically on results/data/insights to identify improvements.
- Utilise iterative and sequential methodologies as appropriate to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product delivery lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify the appropriate solution using relevant methodologies, principles and approaches.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Translate back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify users, who they are, and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Engage various stakeholders, utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example but not limited to peer review, formal technical review, user research and testing.
- Utilise planning and prioritisation techniques to organise and manage the product backlog to deliver value and benefits.
- Produce reports, roadmaps, plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management at various levels within the organisation.
- Use product management life cycle tools and techniques. Where appropriate automate mechanical tasks such as scheduling, resource balancing, and time recording.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Use data to inform decision making.
Your training plan
- The course runs for 24 months at our Crawley, West Sussex, VHQ
- After that, it’ll be time to put all your training into practice. The sky really is the limit
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade C/5 or above)
- Maths (grade C/5 or above)
- Science (grade C/5 or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
You’ll need to be naturally curious and detail-oriented—digital products move quickly, and small decisions can have a big impact on the customer experience.
About this company
Virgin Atlantic took off in 1984 when Richard Branson set out to shake up the aviation industry—and we’ve been doing things differently ever since. What began with a single 747, one route, and a small but mighty team has grown into an international airline with a global network and thousands of passionate people behind it. But our story has never just been about planes—it’s about people. From the very beginning, we’ve believed that travel should feel exciting, personal, and filled with possibility. That belief still drives us today as we work towards our mission: to become the most loved travel company. Whether we’re designing innovative customer experiences, pushing boundaries in sustainability, or building inclusive teams that reflect the world we serve, we’re united by a shared spirit of adventure, heart, and humanity. Because at Virgin Atlantic, we don’t just fly people from A to B—we help them take off in every sense. We’re not just your average airline. When it comes to our people, they’re a passionate lot, united in creating something different. It’s always been like this. It’s in our DNA, and it was ignited within us from the moment we started flying.
After this apprenticeship
You’ll complete the programme with more than just a sense of achievement. Over the course of the apprenticeship, you’ll gain hands-on experience working within agile squads, supporting the delivery of real digital products used by our customers every day. You’ll develop core skills in product ownership—like managing backlogs, writing user stories, and prioritising features—and build strong working relationships across UX, engineering, and commercial teams.
By the end of the programme, you’ll have earned a recognised qualification, built a portfolio of real-world digital experience, and gained the confidence to take your next step as a Product Owner—at Virgin Atlantic or wherever your career takes you next.
In return for your passion and commitment, we’ll support you every step of the way. You’ll be surrounded by brilliant people, develop a toolkit of agile skills, and leave with the clarity, capability, and connections to thrive in the world of digital product delivery.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CAMBRIDGE SPARK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000327570.
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Closes in 20 days (Sunday 20 July 2025)
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