Product Owner
Softcard (acquired by Google)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Henley-on-Thames • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Prioritising product features that deliver the greatest client value while remaining technically and operationally feasible.
- Balancing flexibility to iterate whilst ensuring the product is built for scale - across data, infrastructure, and user experience.
- Defining the data strategy for personalisation: what’s the minimum viable data set, determining the most effective methods for collection, and informing what analytics needed to extract maximum value and where does data collection become a barrier to feasibility.
- Contributing to shaping a modular, scalable solution that can evolve with client needs and platform capabilities.
- Owning and prioritising the product backlog, ensuring feasibility, and alignment with stakeholder requirements.
- Leading Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, reviews) and maintain delivery cadence.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to elicit and validate business, client and technical requirements.
- Coordinating validation sessions with end-users to ensure product features meet expectations.
- Managing release planning, technical debt, and dependencies across teams and vendors.
- Aligning with Solution Owner and technical leads on architecture and integration and the Client and Proposition Manager on client requirements, needs and commercial considerations.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Product Owner in Agile environments, ideally within digital financial services.
- Entrepreneurial, can-do attitude and comfortable managing ambiguity and working within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience integrating digital solutions into intermediary platforms or environments - including managing cross-functional dependencies and navigating platform constraints.
- Experience or familiarity with data science, martech (e.g. personalisation engines, marketing automation), or behavioural finance is highly advantageous.
Benefits
- Company-provided healthcare
- A generous annual leave allowance
- Flexible working options, including hybrid working arrangements
- Generous pension provisions
- Income protection
- Health and wellness benefits
- Volunteering days
- Enhanced parental leave
- Life insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Agiledata strategyproduct backlog managementrelease planningdata collection methodsanalyticsmodular solutionsscalable solutionstechnical debt managementcross-functional dependencies
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationentrepreneurial attitudecan-do attitudemanaging ambiguitycollaborationvalidationflexibilityleadershiporganizational skills