Founding Digital Banking Product Manager

Union Bancaire Privée; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Greenfield project

Startup vibe

Senior leadership access

Quality and stability

Competitive salary

Job summary

Union Bancaire Privée in London seeks a Founding Product Manager to lead the build of our online private banking solutions within a digital banking team. You will own the product vision, collaborate with designers and engineers, and shape releases while engaging clients and relationship managers.

You will work with senior leadership to define the digital agenda, ensuring client value, governance alignment, and growth across products and locations over time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a product manager owning a live digital product end to end
• 2+ years in payments, banking or another FCA-regulated financial service
• A track record of continuous discovery: talking to users, testing ideas before building them, and changing course when the evidence says so
• Comfort working with designers and engineers as peers, using tools such as Jira, Confluence and Figma, including leveraging AI in your workflows
• The judgement to work constructively with control functions and senior executives, and the confidence to hold a position when the evidence supports it
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English, with the ability to make complex topics simple for clients, colleagues and senior stakeholders
• Client-centred, rigorous and composed: you start from what clients need, report what the data shows, and keep the team focused on delivering outcomes
• Experience in private banking or wealth management (UHNWI / HNWI) is highly valued
• Working knowledge of UK payments (Faster Payments, CHAPS, Confirmation of Payee, Strong Customer Authentication, the Payment Services Regulations and the APP fraud reimbursement regime) is a strong advantage
• French language skills are a plus

Responsibilities

• Set the direction: own the product vision, roadmap and backlog, sequenced by client value and risk
• Discover continuously: speak to clients every week, run regular panels with relationship managers and their assistants, and use client and usage data to size opportunities and test assumptions before anything is built
• Deliver with the team: write clear requirements and user stories with client-observable acceptance criteria, prioritise the backlog, and accept completed work in short iterations
• Collaborate with control functions: work closely with Risk, Security, Legal and Compliance, the bank’s second line of defence, so that their expertise shapes the product as it is built
• Measure what matters: define and track adoption, client satisfaction and product-market fit, and report what the evidence shows, including when it contradicts expectations
• Shape the digital agenda: work directly with UBP’s senior leadership to shape the bank’s digital ambition and turn it into products clients value, and equip relationship managers to introduce new digital services to their clients

Skills

Product management

Financial services

Discovery

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

English fluency

Client-centric mindset

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Job description

Union Bancaire Privée in London seeks a Founding Product Manager to lead the build of our online private banking solutions within a digital banking team. You will own the product vision, collaborate with designers and engineers, and shape releases while engaging clients and relationship managers.

You will work with senior leadership to define the digital agenda, ensuring client value, governance alignment, and growth across products and locations over time.