Senior Product Owner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Philippines.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of product backlogs and delivery outcomes across various products and platforms.

• Convert product strategy into prioritized roadmaps and actionable requirements.

• Make daily prioritization and trade-off decisions, balancing client commitments, technical health, and new capabilities.

• Lead discovery processes, define success metrics, and ensure that delivered work generates measurable value.

• Collect, document, and validate business and user requirements.

• Define epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Translate compliance and due diligence requirements into clear, testable specifications.

• Lead backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions.

• Act as the decision-maker regarding scope and requirements, address questions, eliminate blockers, and approve or reject completed work.

• Coordinate dependencies across teams and locations, representing product areas during release planning.

• Foster stakeholder relationships, present roadmaps, and manage expectations.

• Maintain comprehensive requirement traceability.

• Lead pre-release and post-release enablement for internal teams.

• Drive product discovery, outline problems, formulate hypotheses, and collaborate with UI/UX to validate concepts.

• Analyze workflows and user journeys to pinpoint optimization opportunities.

• Oversee usability testing and the validation of delivered features.

• Define and monitor adoption, usage, and impact metrics post-release.

• Collaborate with AI & Data teams to transform concepts and prototypes into production-ready specifications.

• Specify requirements for explainable AI-enabled features, including confidence indicators and human-in-the-loop review processes.

• Partner with data and engineering teams to ensure data quality, coverage, and limitations are addressed.

• Create and maintain requirement specifications, diagrams, workflows, and product documentation.

• Review QA test cases, lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and verify that functionality meets requirements.

• Manage release notes and user-facing documentation.

• Mentor and coach Product Owners and Business Analysts.

• Establish standards for product ownership, story quality, refinement, and documentation.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team processes.

• Provide coverage and escalate issues for the Head of Product Ownership as needed.

⛳️ Requirements

• Valid documentation permitting work in the Philippines.

• Business-level proficiency (C1/C2) in English, both spoken and written.

• Analytical and detail-oriented, capable of deconstructing complex problems and converting them into structured requirements.

• User-focused, with the capacity to understand user needs and advocate for solutions that enhance user experience.

• Collaborative and influential, skilled in building strong stakeholder relationships and making tough decisions.

• Curious and proactive, enthusiastic about learning product and feature capabilities, market trends, and client challenges.

• Decisive and comfortable navigating ambiguity and incomplete information.

• Strong understanding of agile principles and practices.

• Excellent communicator, able to produce clear documentation and articulate requirements, priorities, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Organized and structured, able to manage multiple priorities across various products while maintaining orderly backlogs.

• 6–10 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a similar role within an agile environment, preferably in B2B SaaS, with experience owning a product area end-to-end.

• Proven track record of delivering measurable product outcomes and mentoring or coaching others.

• Familiarity with compliance, due diligence, or a related field is highly preferred.

• Experience in delivering AI-embedded product development is a significant asset.

• Professional product ownership certification (e.g., PSPO II, A-CSPO) is a plus.

• Ability to align working hours with the UK until 12pm GMT.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Professional work environment.

• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture.

• Opportunities for professional career growth.

• Equal Employment Opportunity.

• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.