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Senior Product Owner

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Product Owner – Mortgage Origination | Contract | Outside IR35

6-month contract

Cardiff - Hybrid - 2 days p/week onsite ideally

Outside IR35

£400–£500/day DOE

We’re hiring an experienced Product Owner for a growing FinTech focused on digital lending. You’ll be shaping the direction of a mortgage origination product used by large financial institutions. You must be able to speak the language of banks and hold your own in conversations with senior stakeholders.

What we need:

Previous experience as a Product Owner (or similar role – e.g. Business Analyst or Scrum Master) in the financial services sector

Intimate knowledge of the administration/servicing of a Loan agreement.  

Previous experience as a Product Owner, or similar role in software delivery with hands-on experience of managing aspects of the product life-cycle. (i.e. Business Analyst, Scrum Master)

Confident communicator with senior banking stakeholders

Skilled at gathering and writing user stories, setting sprint goals, prioritising backlogs

Hands-on with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps

Able to work closely with engineers and UX designers to get things built

Strong sense of MVP vs “nice to have”

Experience planning releases, managing product roadmaps

Nice to have:

Exposure to competitor lending products

Technical understanding (Postman, SQL tools, API testing, etc.)

Ability to analyse user data and issues to drive improvements

You’ll be working in a fast-paced team that builds, improves and ships real software. No fluff – just getting stuff done.

Start date: ASAP

IR35: Outside

Location: Remote UK

If you’ve delivered digital lending products before and know how to drive a product forward while juggling stakeholder expectations – we want to hear from you

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