Product Owner

Role Title Product Owner

Location: Cardiff

Hybrid / Flexible Working (Full time)

Salary: Up to £45,000 depending on experience + up to 20% annual bonus

About Us:

Founded in 2018 LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 4 pillar organisation that has over 2,000 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.

We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.

The Role

As a Product Owner you will be a key part of the Product team at LDMS, you will be responsible for organising, prioritising and refining work for our agile engineering teams.

You’ll assist in creating, defining and delivering the product strategy, gather feature requests and coordinate the team's sprint cycles, ensuring quality and clarity of items and stories. We’re looking to speak with candidates who are able to identify and understand customer needs and communicate these clearly to the cross-functional teams to ensure smooth product releases.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities 

• Incorporate feature requests into the Product backlog and Roadmap
• Constantly groom and prioritise the product backlog in line with company objectives
• Develop clear, understandable user stories and define easily understandable acceptance criteria
• Work with our in-house UX designer to construct high fidelity prototypes and present to stakeholders for feedback.
• Plan releases and upgrades in collaboration with the Release Manager
• Analyse requirements and the needs of the end users
• Keep track of industry developments and trends

Skills & Knowledge 

Essential

• Previous experience as a Product Owner, or similar role in software delivery with hands-on experience of managing aspects of the product life-cycle. (QA, Scrum Master, Software Developer)
• Natural problem solver, with ability to define a MVP and strike a balance between strategic and tactical delivery and route a path between day 1 functionality to later sophistication.
• Proven experience in effectively communicating stories, epics and initiatives to engineering teams under a scrum methodology and use of supporting platforms (JIRA, Azure DevOps).

Desirable

• Be able to compare and contrast existing and competitor solutions to maximise relevant outcomes.
• Experience in analysing data and customer issues to draw business-relevant conclusions.
• Technical background/understanding with experience of software such as Postman, Database IDEs (Dbeaver, SQL Server, sql developer).
• Exposure to financial/credit services would be a positive.

What’s important to us?

It’s safe to say our passion is tech but we recognise that it’s the people that we hire and bring together who are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing, however, what we do have in common are our values:

• Teamwork
• Merit
• Develop
• Honest
• Impactful
• Integrity

They may just look like corporate jargon but they mean something to us, and if you can relate to the above, get in touch as it there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.

Benefits

• Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
• 25 days Annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1 day Birthday Leave
• 1 day Charity Leave
• Private Health Insurance - AXA VIP comprehensive cover - optional
• EAP
• Pension (Salary Sacrifice 3%/5% contribution)
• Salary sacrifice bike and electric car scheme
• Monthly Socials
• Charity Events