Senior Product Owner

Product Owner – Mortgage Origination | Contract | Outside IR35

6-month contract
Cardiff - Hybrid - 2 days p/week onsite ideally
Outside IR35
£500–£600/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 Snr Product Owner (or similar role – e.g. Business Analyst or Scrum Master) in the financial services sector
• Experience working within Mortgages, Loans or Savings sector is essential 
• 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
• Experience planning releases, managing product roadmaps
• Previous experience as a Product Owner, or similar role in software delivery with hands-on experience of managing aspects of the product life-cycle

Nice to have:

• Exposure to competitor lending products
• Strong sense of MVP vs “nice to have”
• 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: Hybrid/Cardiff

*** Please note you must be able to attend the Cardiff office 1-2 days per week for the duration of the project ***

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.