Technical Product Owner

We’re looking for an experienced Product Owner to shape and deliver an exceptional customer experience for our financial products. In this high-impact role, reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you’ll optimise the product development lifecycle through close collaboration with product and development teams.

Who we are

Trade Nation is a global CFD and spread betting broker. We help traders make better decisions through clear market insights, transparent pricing and fairer approach to trading.

Since 2014, we’ve grown into a market-leading, low-cost broker with our headquarters in London and offices across Europe, South Africa, Asia-Pacific, and key offshore regions including the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Our platform is available in 14 languages, making it accessible to traders worldwide.

Built on transparency and trust, and driven by our people, our focus is simple: helping customers trade more effectively. We do that by keeping costs low, cutting unnecessary complexity and using technology to put traders first.

Your team

Our Kuala Lumpur office is a bright, modern space located at the heart of the city. The team here is expanding, making it our second-largest hub, and we’re excited to welcome like-minded individuals to join an exciting, collaborative environment filled with professionals who have a passion for innovation and driving change.

Our commitments to each other

We have each other’s backs

There when we need each other most

We challenge each other

Be more creative, more curious, more bold

We thrive together

Taking our work to the next level

We form strong bonds

Through team building and social events

We don’t judge

Instead, we teach and are open to learning

We step up

Taking ownership and we are supporting each other to do the same

Responsibilities

• Leading end-to-end product delivery, focusing on high-quality customer experiences and operational solutions.
• Translating complex business requirements into clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborating closely with engineering and architecture to understand the technology stack, influence architectural decisions, and ensure scalability.
• Managing the technical product backlog, prioritising tasks, guiding estimation, identifying dependencies, and addressing technical debt.
• Leading Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative culture within development teams and engagement with the wider business community and strategy
• Overseeing release management with your QA, SRE and engineering team to ensure smooth and predictable deployments
• Acting as the primary point of contact for development squads and communicate effectively with all stakeholders on roadmap delivery and technical concepts.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of proven success as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner or Technical Business Analyst
• Experience working in JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Miro (or similar tools) in a masterful way
• Experience designing and delivering exceptional user experiences for financial products and understanding the underlying product platforms.
• Experience working with a range of financial products, including investment, banking, and digital finance solutions.
• Proficiency in discussing and understanding APIs, microservices, databases, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of common architectural patterns and trade-offs - including scalability, reliability, security, performance.
• Excellent interpersonal, and presentation skills to clearly communicate delivery progress and timelines in different ways
• Strong project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills
• Experience cooperating with Engineering Leads to get the most out of development teams
• Strong technical writing ability with experience co-creating and reviewing technical specifications and tasks
• Experience managing and communicating releases to customers and internal stakeholders
• Experience implementing agile processes and being able to adapt to the needs and capabilities of the business

Preferred requirements

• Direct experience in financial product or investment products.
• Awareness of server-side languages, databases, APIs, and how data flows through the system.
• Experience working with hybrid, remote, in-house, outsourced, and mixed-capability development teams.
• Experience working with tech stacks - such as C# , Python, Javascript / Typescript.