Product Owner

Trade Nation

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 16 days ago
  • Apply easily
We're looking for an experienced Product Owner to shape and deliver an exceptional customer experience for our retail CFD and spread betting products. In this high-impact role, reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll optimize our product development lifecycle through close collaboration with product and development teams.Who we areWe are Trade Nation. We help our customers power up their trading through killer insights, transparent costs, and fairer ways to trade. We’re innovators, and proud of it. And we’ve grown a lot in our decade as a market-leading low-cost trading powerhouse. Our reach is global through our teams in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Seychelles and The Bahamas.Founded on transparency, forged in trust and powered by people, we’re committed to empowering our customers to outperform the markets. How? By minimising expenses and harnessing technology to prioritise the lowest trading costs.But enough about us. Let’s hear about you.Who you areYou’re something special. You pride yourself on being unique and bringing your own history to the table – finding solutions to daily challenges in a way that can’t be done by anyone else. Maybe you talk a big game, maybe you don’t. The important thing is that you do what you say and follow through to see every customer thrive.You don’t play with the bumpers up. That means breaking out of your lane when needed to help others – or forging your own completely. Every problem is our problem and that’s how you see it too. Because Trade Nation’s people have a shared vision, and you want to be part of making it a reality.You know when to take the right sort of risks, the ones that push you to be better. You’re not afraid to try, fail, and then try harder. But don’t worry, you’ll have all the support you need to thrive with us at Trade Nation, and we can’t wait to enable you to learn and grow.Ready to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in?Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end product delivery, focusing on high-quality customer experiences and operational solutions.
  • Translate complex business requirements into clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Collaborate closely with engineering and architecture to understand the technology stack, influence architectural decisions, and ensure scalability.
  • Manage the technical product backlog, prioritising tasks, guiding estimation, identifying dependencies, and addressing technical debt.
  • Lead Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative culture within development teams and engagement with the wider business community and strategy
  • Oversee release management with your QA, SRE and engineering team to ensure smooth and predictable deployments
  • Act as the primary point of contact for development squads and communicate effectively with all stakeholders on roadmap delivery and technical concepts.
Requirements
  • 3-5+ years of proven success as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner or Technical Business Analyst
  • Experience working in JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Miro (or similar tools) in a masterful way
  • Experience working with regulated financial services products with thousands of retail customers
  • Experience building user interfaces and understanding how they interact with the back-end.
  • Understanding of payments infrastructure and how different payment components fit together
  • Understanding and awareness of financial regulations, compliance requirements, and consumer protection laws (e.g. FCA, PSD2, GDPR, Consumer Duty).
  • Excellent interpersonal, and presentation skills to clearly communicate delivery progress and timelines in different ways
  • Strong project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills
  • Experience cooperating with Engineering Leads to get the most out of development teams
  • Strong technical writing ability with experience co-creating and reviewing technical specifications and tasks
  • Experience managing and communicating releases to customers and internal stakeholders
  • Experience implementing agile processes and being able to adapt to the needs and capabilities of the business
Preferred requirements
  • Direct experience in CFD, spread betting, sports betting, direct trading / investment products.
  • Awareness of server-side languages, databases, APIs, and how data flows through the system.
  • Experience working with hybrid, remote, in-house, outsourced, and mixed-capability development teams.
  • Experience working with tech stacks - such as C# , Python, Javascript / Typescript.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.
  • Private healthcare.
  • Life Insurance, Critical Illness & Income Protection cover.
  • Active Lifestyle allowance.
  • Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
  • Up to 3 weeks allowance to work in any location.
  • Fresh fruit weekly

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