Digital Product Owner Apprentice - Crawley
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Company: THALES UK LIMITED
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Location: Crawley, RH10 9HA
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £24,000.00 per year
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Sector: Digital
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Ref: NAS-2000056197
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Application Deadline Date: 17/02/2027
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Start Date: 06/09/2027
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday – Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday – Thursday, 5 hours Friday).
Brief Description
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…
Training to be Provided
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.
Future Prospects
- Secure a permanent role from day one at the start of your apprenticeship
Vacancy Detail
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
Other Information
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