Senior Product Owner Job in United Kingdom Recruiting by Moneyhub

Senior Product Owner

Who are we and why do we do what we do?

We are a data and payments company on a mission! We’re a group of developers, financial experts, and optimists who share a vision for improving the financial wellness of people, their businesses, and their communities.

We started this company with the aim of changing how the industry used and viewed data. As architects of Open Banking, Open Finance, and Open Data, we strive to be a force for good — changing the status quo of how businesses interact with people. We strive to serve the whole population through every change in their finances.

We do this by powering businesses through our APIs and Personal Finance Tech solutions as well as our own personal financial management app for consumers.

We can only do that by being an inclusive and diverse organisation. We invest in our people, and enjoy an environment focused on innovation, collaboration and openness.

What do we offer?

We champion flexibility, and we trust and respect our employees to deliver results in a way that best suits them, working around their own lives and commitments.

We live and breathe a fantastic culture of remote working and you will perform your duties predominantly from your home. However, the heart of Moneyhub is in Bristol and from time to time you will be required to attend company meet ups.

As well as a truly flexible approach, we also offer a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• Remote working - with quarterly away days, regular team meeting and face to face client meetings as required
• 10% contribution towards your Pension from your very first day with us;
• 25 days of holiday (plus bank hols), rising to 30 days after two years;
• Choose to take your entitlement to UK bank holidays at other times based on your own days of significance;
• Private medical insurance, including cover for pre-existing conditions, plus dental and optical benefit;
• Six week Moneyhubber Family Pay when you become a new parent;
• Permanent health insurance and life cover  - much greater than the industry standard (death in service);
• Employee assistance programme;
• Professional development support, with dedicated allowance of time and money;
• Life event leave;
• Cycle to work scheme;
• EV Salary sacrifice scheme;
• £750 towards professional memberships
• Remote working benefits, including work from almost anywhere, access to co-working spaces and support for your home office set-up
• High spec laptop
• Holiday purchase and more

Requirements

Sounds great right? What will you be doing?

Moneyhub has a vision to Enhance the Lifetime Financial Wellness of People, Their Communities and their Businesses. We are achieving this with our B2B2C business model. 

We are  seeking an experienced and skillful senior product professional to join our Product team within Personal Finance Technology. This role is suited to someone who can see the big picture and then roll up their sleeves to deliver items on the roadmap.

As the Senior Product Owner, your role will be to be highly influential in developing our roadmap, driving its implementation and balancing that with co-ordinating the needs of clients being onboarding into our enterprise solution. This role is about unlocking the potential of today with clients and tomorrow with prospects. 

Reporting to the Product Director this role will have a wide variety of stakeholders who will be looking for your advice, support and insight when it comes to the performance of the Personal Finance Tech line of business. From Sales and pre-sales consultants to customer success and clients. This role needs someone who is happy to engage with the market, clients (prospects and existing) and our MD and wider Moneyhub Executive.

The right person will intuitively work out when is the right time to MVP a feature, when to enhance an existing piece of functionality, how to get the most of user experiences and how to manage all elements of the product lifecyle, in a regulated SaaS environment. 

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team of Product Owners and providing guidance to them, the business (sales, pre-sales and marketing) and the Product Director in key elements of our SaaS offering.
• Engaging with clients and the market to understand the problem state and ideate the solution state based on experience, stakeholder engagement and testing in our own Moneyhub app experience.
• Working with the Product Director to identify, plan and articulate the Roadmap in a way that will create confidence, buy-in and purpose for key stakeholders in the business and clients (including prospects).
• Working with your Product Owners, the technical leads of their teams, the Senior Tech Lead for Personal Finance Tech and other influential members of engineering to help them develop engineer plans that turn the ‘what’ into ‘how’.
• Create a close working relationship with the UX team to help form the ‘what’ and ‘how’ when it comes to the experience, actions and outcomes of using features and functionalities being defined. 
• Be an active member or even the facilitator of prospect/existing client workshops to help clarify scope, purpose and outcomes of customised or innovative items presented to the business.
• Deputise for the Product Director in their absence, alongside your fellow Senior Product Owner.

Experience:

• Significant experience as a product manager leading a team in a SaaS business, creating apps and/or digital products (i) being used by large volumes of users or consumers, and (ii) producing significant volumes of data.
• Experience in regulated environments e.g. financial services, healthcare and/or government. Domain knowledge specifically in Retail Banking, Pensions, Wealth or Insurance is highly desirable.
• Experience of Agile methodology both in the form of planning/management and  different roles and responsibilities..
• Significant experience of successfully managing multiple stakeholders (within and outside the organisation) as well as being able to clarify objectives, goals, outcomes and requirements.
• An understanding of UX and the value of iterative development to the overall success of features, functionalities and performance.
• Experience in a scale up B2B business at the cutting edge of a new and rapidly evolving regulated market is beneficial.
• Ability to balance complex requirements from multiple sources with a commercial approach. Go-to-Market experience is an advantage.
• Experience working directly with developers, ideally within a remote-based environment.