Junior Product Owner

Role Overview

• Support the Senior Product Owner in evolving products used by multiple clients, countries, and tenants, learning to ensure clear vision and roadmap alignment to business and client needs.
• Assist in balancing global product consistency with local market and regulatory requirements.
• Take ownership of our early stage Asset Management platform as you develop, acting as a point of accountability for product outcomes and value delivery under the guidance of the Senior Product Owner.
• Support the maintenance and prioritisation of product backlogs, learning to ensure they are transparent, well-refined, and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Assist in making adaptive & informed decisions to support changing business needs & priorities.
• Work closely with engineering teams to plan and deliver work through regular sprint cycles, learning Agile methodologies.
• Develop effective tooling, time management and organisational skills to implement an Agile based delivery approach.
• Support gathering, analysing, and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements from internal and external stakeholders.
• Learn to translate requirements into clear user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Assist in defining and continuously improving end-to-end customer and user journeys across the platform.
• Support development teams throughout delivery, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and release activities.
• Collaborate with internal teams (Engineering, QA, Professional Services, Project management, Service Delivery) to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Support engagement with group clients to understand their needs, challenges, and feedback, learning how to incorporate these into the product roadmap.
• Learn to clearly communicate priorities, progress, and decisions to stakeholders at all levels.
• Support identification of opportunities to leverage AI and automation to enhance product processing, decision-making, efficiency, or user experience.
• Stay informed on emerging trends in AI and financial services technology.

Requirements

• Some experience in a fast paced business working with software, financial products or insurance.
• Basic understanding or willingness to learn Agile / Scrum methodologies and product backlog management.
• Demonstrated ability or strong potential to understand detailed and complex problems and convert and communicate them into understandable requirements.
• Interest in working with complex products that support multiple clients, configurations, or markets.
• Basic understanding or eagerness to learn about end-to-end customer journeys and user-centred design principles.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills, with a willingness to develop these further.
• Eagerness to learn to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment and take decision making accountability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and use agile tools (JIRA, Confluence, Slack or similar).

Desirable:

• Experience within financial services, fintech, financial software/products, or regulated software environments.
• Experience working within operational or data analyses roles to support understanding business needs.
• Interest or hands-on experience in applying AI or machine learning within software products.
• Familiarity with data-driven product development and performance metrics.

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday leave
• 1 day Charity leave
• Private Health Insurance
• EAP
• Pension (3% / 5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice
• (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)
• Monthly socials
• Charity Events