Digital Product Owner Apprentice - Crawley
THALES UK LIMITED
Crawley (RH10 9HA)
Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
Posted on 5 October 2026
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Summary
Turn your curiosity into a career. If you’re passionate about delivering digital solutions, eager to learn, and looking for an apprenticeship that blends academic study with hands-on experience, we’d love to hear from you…
- Wage
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£24,000 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- Competitive salary of £24,000 per annum
- Performance-related pay uplifts
- Contributory Company Pension
- Training course
- Digital product manager (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday – Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday – Thursday, 5 hours Friday).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 6 September 2027
- 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
About the Role:
As a Digital Product Owner Apprentice, you will develop the product knowledge, practical skills and professional behaviours needed to define, prioritise and deliver valuable products and improvements.
Working as part of our product and delivery community, you will contribute to live projects by collaborating with engineering, design, data, systems and domain specialists to turn user and business needs into clear outcomes, well-prioritised work and measurable delivery.
What You Will Learn
Your responsibilities may include:
- Working with experienced product owners, AIDMs and teams on live initiatives to learn effective product practices
- Shadowing Product Owners and AIDMs 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
- Conducting straight forward stakeholder and user research (e.g., interviews, surveys, feedback review) and summarising findings
- Supporting product discovery activities by helping write drafts of problem statements, hypotheses and success measures
- Producing lightweight documentation (e.g., user story notes, FAQs, release notes drafts, decision records)
- Supporting change management activities such as training materials, rollout checklists and escalation paths
Where you'll work
Manor Royal
Crawley
RH10 9HA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
QA LIMITED
Training course
Digital product manager (level 4)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify a solution for example using methodologies, principles and approaches to resolve the issue.
- Critically reflect on results, data and or insights to identify improvements or problems.
- Utilise iterative and or sequential methodologies to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product development lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Refine back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify and segment users, who they are, and what their needs and problems are for example accessibility, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service when engaging with stakeholders.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example 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 and plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management throughout the organisation.
- Identify opportunities to use AI and or machine learning to automate or increase the impact of your digital product such as a built in AI powered assistant, Vibe coding or Spec Driven Development.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
- Identify, understand, and define problems, analyse and help to identify a solution for example using methodologies, principles and approaches to resolve the issue.
- Critically reflect on results, data and or insights to identify improvements or problems.
- Utilise iterative and or sequential methodologies to develop products.
- Work within a multi-disciplinary team through two or more phases of the product development lifecycle.
- Manage the operational running of a live product or service.
- Support the development of artifacts for assessment.
- Refine back log and roadmap, and show how it aligns to strategy.
- Identify and segment users, who they are, and what their needs and problems are for example accessibility, based on evidence.
- Define user stories, write stories and acceptance criteria.
- Utilise the vision, goals, KPI’s and objectives for the product or service when engaging with stakeholders.
- Ensure methods and techniques for structured reviews are applied, for example 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 and plans to report progress and support governance processes and stakeholder management throughout the organisation.
- Identify opportunities to use AI and or machine learning to automate or increase the impact of your digital product such as a built in AI powered assistant, Vibe coding or Spec Driven Development.
- Manage, mitigate and investigate product risks and ensuring product meets the need of its users.
Training schedule
Apprenticeship Programme:
This is a 24-month programme aligned to the Level 4 Digital Product Manager Apprenticeship standard. Delivered in partnership with a digital specialist provider, the programme is delivered via a virtual model including:
- Live virtual lectures
- Online learning resources
- Self-directed learning activities
The programme will conclude with an End Point Assessment, followed by roll-off into your permanent role within the Thales UK business.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 3 x GCSE's (grade 9-4 or A*-C)
- English (grade 9-4 or A*-C)
- Maths (grade 9-4 or A*-C)
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Team working
Other requirements
To be considered for this position, you must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening and Security Clearance (SC), which is a government background check, before starting employment.
To be eligible for SC clearance, you will typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. As part of the vetting process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, right to work in the UK, any time spent overseas during the last five years, and your employment and/or education history.
For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels
About this employer
Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.
Company benefits
- Holiday entitlement of 201 hours a year (plus a company day and bank holidays)
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Hybrid/flexible working options
- Employee assistance programme
- Learning and development support
- Employee discounts and well-being initiatives
- Life Cover
- 80 Hours Volunteering per year (first two years)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Secure a permanent role from day one at the start of your apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
QA LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000056197.
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Closes on Wednesday 17 February 2027
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