Senior Product Owner-Fintech

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 (ideally retail credit) and product innovation, you’ll leverage your knowledge to drive the development of the platform. Operating like an independent start-up, within an established organisation, you’ll be completely at home with agile frameworks.

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

What will you do as an Senior Product Owner at N Brown?

• 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

What skills and experience will you have?

• 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 (preferably retail credit)
• Exceptional communication and active listening skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience of working with third party cloud-based service providers
• Application life cycle management, e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence
• Continuous improvement mentality
• Manages the full product life cycle to ensure that customer/user needs are met and that financial and other targets are achieved.
• Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid working
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days
• Annual bonus scheme
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Access to Apricity, a self-funding IVF benefit at a reduced rate
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
• A range of financial wellbeing support
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?

At N Brown, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We’re a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We’re customer-obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We’re experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we’re sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in.. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat!

Our full-time working hours are 36.17 per week over 5-days. We don’t have strict working hours therefore there is some flexibility around start and finish times as long as you are meeting the needs of the business.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!