Senior Product Owner

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Product Owner with a proven track record of defining and delivering digital products to join a new ‘start-up’ division within N Brown.
As a member of the Castle team, you’ll be at the heart of a unique and exciting venture to assemble a new financial services platform. With a background in financial services (preferably retail credit) and product innovation, you’ll leverage your industry knowledge to drive the development of the platform, initially prioritising the delivery of the Originations component. Operating like an independent start-up, within an established organisation, you’ll be completely at home with agile frameworks and will fully embrace empirical process control.

What type of person are we looking for? 

*       Driven by boundless curiosity and is experimentally minded, always starting with ‘why?’

*       Tenacious and persistent, willing to go above and beyond to deliver great outcomes

*       Focused and decisive, able to ruthlessly prioritise to stay on track

*       Energised by collaboration and a champion of radical candour

*       Believes as much in having fun as working hard

About the Role

*       Acting as a champion for the platform as a product and a service

*       Taking full ownership of the product roadmap and defining product goals

*       Cultivating positive and reciprocal relationships with stakeholders to support the product vision and drive prioritisation of the roadmap

*       Owning sprint planning and release planning to deliver incremental value

*       Evolving the product through rapid iteration and hypothesis driven development

*       Maintaining the health of the backlog through continuous refinement and prioritisation

*       Working in an agile environment and embracing DevOps within a small internal team and an external systems integrator (SI)

*       Building a strong culture of learning within the team, providing feedback to continuously improve the way we work together

*       Establishes and owns measurement objectives, with continuous review and improvements to measurement capability, whilst providing advice and guidance for effective use of measures to drive product evolution

Must-Have Skills & Experience:

*       Experienced in digital product development/innovation

*       Experienced in working with agile development methodologies, such as Scrum

*       Experienced in owning multi-channel customer applications

*       Understanding of financial services business processes (specifically retail credit)

*       Exceptional communication and active listening skills

*       Strong stakeholder management skills

*       Experience of working with third party cloud-based service providers

*       Application lifecycle management, e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence

*       Continuous improvement mentality

About N Brown 

Working here you’ll explore everything the world of digital retail has to offer — asking questions, trying new things and chasing new opportunities. Combine this curiosity with the freedom to make your own decisions, take charge of projects and work flexibly, and you’ve got the perfect place to show your skills and learn new ones. It’s fast and furious here at times, but this just means something new and exciting is always on the way. So, if you collaborate, think on your feet, embrace innovation and love rising to a challenge, your work with us will have a serious impact on the business, your career and our customers’ lives.