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Role: Product Owner
Location: Nottingham (Hybrid)
Salary: £60k-£70k
Key Skills:
- Decision Engine experience
- Middleware experience
- APIs experience
The Opportunity
Our client, a well-established UK financial services business, is looking for an experienced Product Owner to join its product function. Reporting into the Head of Product, you'll sit at the heart of the organisation, connecting the operational side of the business with an in-house engineering team so that every piece of software delivered solves a real problem for customers.
What You'll Be Doing
- Partnering with senior leadership across product, operations, and technology to turn business strategy into a clear, achievable product plan
- Shaping and communicating the product vision and roadmap, and helping keep the technology platform modern and fit for the future
- Acting as the decision-maker on technology change, setting priorities, and managing the backlog
- Gathering and refining requirements with stakeholders and writing well-defined user stories and backlog items
- Collaborating with engineers on test planning and delivery
- Strengthening day-to-day collaboration and trust between business and technical teams
- Leading and developing your team, encouraging an environment where people feel safe to experiment, test ideas, and learn fast
- Helping the wider business shift its focus from discussion to action and delivery
- Taking part in, and facilitating where needed, all Scrum ceremonies
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How Success Will Be Measured
- Delivered work addresses the intended problem and has measurable outcomes
- Results of change are tracked and shared with the wider team
- Stakeholders feel involved in, and ownership of, the solutions being built
- The business sees ongoing, improving value from its investment in product development
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What You'll Bring
- Proven experience as a Product Owner in an agile software environment, ideally within financial services
- Specific experience with decision-engine products
- A solid grasp of the software development lifecycle and modern technology stacks
- Good working knowledge of APIs and middleware
- Strong analytical and documentation skills
- Familiarity with analytics and user-behaviour tools (such as Hotjar or Google Tag Manager) is a plus
- An understanding of good UX/UI practice and how to build it into requirements from the start
- A track record of seeing projects, preferably software, through to successful delivery
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- A people-focused leadership style and a genuine commitment to continuous improvement
- Experience working alongside in-house engineering teams using agile methods
- An agile certification such as CSPO would be advantageous
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