First Product Owner - Fintech Mobile Trading Platform

EC Markets UK; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

EC Markets UK is building a mobile-first trading platform for UK retail customers. We are seeking the first product function hire to translate vision into features, user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering and design.

You will own the backlog, run refinement and be involved in details daily. This role lays the foundation for a product career as the team grows alongside the platform.

Formación

• 2+ years in an agile delivery team as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or similar role.
• Proven ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria (Given/When/Then).
• Hands-on Scrum or Kanban experience; have run ceremonies.
• Strong knowledge of Jira and Confluence; comfortable with whiteboarding in Miro or FigJam.
• Strong academic record or equivalent evidence of fast learning.
• Commercial awareness and a customer-first, data-led mindset.
• Willingness to challenge constructively and be challenged.
• Experience in fintech, trading, investing or other regulated industries; mobile apps.
• Familiarity with product analytics tools (PostHog, Metabase) or basic SQL.
• PSPO or CSPO certification is useful, not required.

Responsabilidades

• Break epics into well-structured features, user stories and testable acceptance criteria.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing customer value, commercial impact, regulatory need and technical effort.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint reviews with engineering and design.
• Turn complex ideas into clear user flows, process maps and diagrams using Miro, Confluence and similar tools.
• Work with compliance, risk, operations, dealing, marketing and customer service to capture requirements early.
• Challenge assumptions, including those of senior leadership, using customer insight, data and commercial reasoning.
• Use product analytics and customer feedback to measure what we ship and shape what comes next.
• Help define how product works here: templates, Definition of Ready and Done, documentation standards.

Conocimientos

Agile delivery

User stories

Scrum Kanban

Customer-focused

Data-driven

Communication

Stakeholder management

Educación

Strong academic record

Herramientas

Jira

Confluence

Miro

FigJam

SQL basics

Descripción del empleo

EC Markets UK is building a mobile-first trading platform for UK retail customers. We are seeking the first product function hire to translate vision into features, user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering and design.

You will own the backlog, run refinement and be involved in details daily. This role lays the foundation for a product career as the team grows alongside the platform.