Value Stream Specialist

About the role

The Value Stream Lead is accountable for end‑to‑end product coherence across the value streams.
This role has the expertise and product judgement of a Product Specialist but focuses on orchestration, alignment, and long‑term product integrity across multiple Product Experience Leads and delivery pods.
The Value Stream Lead ensures that what is being built:
•    is cohesive rather than fragmented
•    avoids duplicate or overlapping features
•    evolves as a single, usable product, not a collection of siloed experiences

What you’ll be doing

1) Value Stream Ownership & Product Coherence
•    Own the end‑to‑end value stream view of the product or platform.
•    Maintain a single, authoritative master feature set across all Product Experience Leads.
•    Ensure features are reused, extended, or evolved where appropriate—rather than duplicated.

2) Cross‑Product Alignment & De‑duplication
•    Work closely with all Product Experience Leads to:
o    identify overlapping requirements or features
o    resolve duplication before it enters delivery
o    promote shared capabilities and patterns
•    Act as the arbiter of product scope conflicts, ensuring alignment to the broader value stream.

3) Strategic Product Evolution
•    Envision and articulate the future evolution of the product across the value stream.
•    Define how today’s features ladder into longer‑term capability, usability, and scale.
•    Ensure incremental delivery decisions do not undermine long‑term product coherence.

4) Usability & Experience Consistency
•    Champion usability, consistency, and intuitive experience across the value stream.
•    Ensure that experiences designed by individual Product Experience Leads fit into a cohesive overall product experience.
•    Promote shared interaction patterns, terminology, and conceptual models where applicable.

5) Partnership with Product Experience Leads (Critical)
•    Operate as a strategic partner, not a gatekeeper, to Product Experience Leads.
•    Provide guidance, challenge, and alignment—without taking over their accountability.
•    Enable Product Experience Leads to move fast without fragmenting the product.

6) Stakeholder Alignment & Narrative
•    Maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across business, technology, and operations.
•    Communicate a clear, compelling value stream narrative: what the product is, how it fits together, and where it is going.
•    Ensure stakeholders understand trade‑offs made in the interest of coherence and reuse.

Essential Skills / Experience

•    Strong experience as a Product Specialist, Product Lead, or Product Strategist.
•    Proven ability to reason at system and value‑stream level, not just feature level.
•    Strong product judgement, with a bias for simplicity, reuse, and usability.
•    Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
•    Ability to resolve conflict through clarity, evidence, and product thinking.

Desirable Skills / Experience

•    Experience operating across multiple products or journeys.
•    Experience working in Agile, product‑led, or scaled delivery environments.
•    Exposure to AI‑enabled delivery models.