Platform Product Owner

AppyWay group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary (£60k)

Royal London pension

Job summary

AppyWay is seeking a Platform Product Owner to lead the Kerbside Intelligence Platform, the Hub. You will translate strategy into a prioritised backlog and partner with Engineering and Data to deliver scalable platform capabilities and reusable APIs. This hands-on role blends product, tech and data to drive value.

You will work across Product, Engineering, Data, GIS and Commercial teams, shaping data pipelines, AI opportunities and platform standards to support multiple products and customers.

Qualifications

• 6+ years’ experience owning technical, platform or data products in an agile environment.
• Proven experience with a geospatial product, geospatial data platform or complex SaaS data platform.
• Track record of owning technical products or platforms, with API, data model and data pipelines knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Execute the product roadmap, backlog and priorities for the Hub Platform.
• Define and deliver scalable platform APIs consumed by multiple products and customers.
• Work with Engineering and Data to implement the kerbside data model and data pipelines.
• Define data classification and standardisation requirements and quality standards.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI/ML to improve data quality and automation.
• Maintain a clear, prioritised backlog and communicate platform changes clearly.

Skills

Platform ownership

Geospatial data

APIs

Data pipelines

Cloud architecture

AI capabilities

Communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

C# .NET

Azure

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

QGIS

GeoJSON

Elasticsearch

Power BI

Job description

Who we are

AppyWay is the UK’s largest kerbside data company and Europe’s leading intelligent kerbside platform, decarbonising cities by empowering local authorities to digitally manage their kerbside and share that data with fleets and drivers.

Our journey began with AppyParking, an app born from the frustration of finding and understanding parking on the streets of London. During the app’s creation, it was clear that cities lacked shareable, machine-readable, standardised parking restriction data. So we built the UK’s largest set of standardised kerbside data, in turn discovering the untapped potential beneath everyone’s feet.

Today, we help cities and drivers across the UK, Europe and now New York City optimise operations and transition to net zero by uniting parking/loading maps, occupancy data, and cashless payments. We’ve now mapped over 50,000km of kerbside, enough to circle the Earth! We’re also co‑creators of UK regulations such as the Digital Traffic Regulation Order (D‑TRO), helping shape the standards that will bring the UK’s traffic system into the digital age. Our API and standardised D‑TRO data, already trusted by councils, will soon help self‑driving vehicles know where they can park.

Our impressive client roster includes local authorities such as Edinburgh, Southwark, Lambeth, Haringey, Harrogate, Brighton, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Dublin, North Yorkshire and, more recently across the pond, New York City. Additionally, our apps and API are trusted by tens of thousands of drivers and fleets.

We are proud to have the support of top investors, including Hyundai Motor Company, Aviva Ventures, Mastercard and Esri. To date, we have raised over £20 million in funding, allowing us to continue building something big from the ground up.

If you’re passionate about tangible solutions to help decarbonise the world, then AppyWay is the perfect place for you. Come and make your mark on a company you can call your own!

About the role

We’re looking for a Platform Product Owner to own our Kerbside Intelligence Platform, also known internally as “The Hub.”

The Hub is a foundational part of AppyWay’s product strategy. It will become the canonical platform for our parking and kerbside intelligence, bringing together data from multiple sources into a consistent, trusted and reusable model.

The Hub vision and strategic direction are set. You’ll own day‑to‑day product delivery — translating that strategy into a clear and prioritised backlog, partnering closely with Engineering and Data to execute it, and ensuring consuming products have the platform capabilities they need to move forward.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product, technology and data, and who can turn complex platform problems into clear, incremental pieces of work that deliver value.

What you will be doing

• Execute the product roadmap, backlog and priorities for the Hub Platform.
• Work closely with Engineering to implement the kerbside data model, ensuring it meets consuming product requirements and that concepts such as parking assets, geometry, restrictions, tariffs, rights, entitlements and operating rules are represented consistently.
• Work with the Data team to define requirements for data classification and standardisation, ensuring data from multiple sources is transformed into consistent, machine-readable information and meets agreed quality standards.
• Own product requirements for data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation and publication.
• Work closely with Engineering and Data to define and deliver scalable platform capabilities and APIs that can be reused across multiple products and customers.
• Drive the development and scaling of platform APIs, defining contracts, capabilities, consumption patterns and priorities for internal and external use cases.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and machine learning to improve data classification, anomaly detection, validation, conflict resolution and other data‑intensive workflows.
• Work with Data Operations to move towards an exception‑based operating model, where automation handles high‑confidence cases and people focus on complex decisions and edge cases.
• Work across Product, Engineering, Data, GIS, Commercial and Operations to understand requirements, manage dependencies and ensure the platform solves real business and customer problems.
• Maintain a clear and prioritised product backlog, balancing foundational platform development with the needs of consuming products.
• Define clear acceptance criteria, quality standards and success measures for platform capabilities.
• Manage dependencies across technical teams and ensure platform changes are clearly communicated, understood and adopted by consuming teams.
• Continuously identify opportunities for the platform to remove duplication, reduce manual effort, improve data quality and enable AppyWay to scale its coverage and product offering.

Essential

• 6+ years’ experience owning technical, platform or data products in an agile environment, with a proven ability to work closely with Engineering teams on complex, data-heavy systems.
• Essential: proven experience with a geospatial product, geospatial data platform or complex SaaS data platform.
• A proven track record of owning technical products or platforms, with a good working understanding of APIs, data models, data pipelines and microservices.
• Experience designing or managing data pipelines, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation and distribution.
• Experience with data classification, standardisation and data quality, particularly where multiple data sources need to be brought together into a consistent model.
• Experience working with and scaling APIs and platform capabilities that are consumed by multiple products, customers or third parties.
• Strong technical understanding of APIs, integrations, data models and modern cloud architectures, with the ability to work confidently with engineers and architects.
• Demonstrable experience identifying and applying AI capabilities to improve product functionality, automation, data quality or operational efficiency.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with engineers, data practitioners, product teams and senior stakeholders.
• Comfort with ambiguity — you can break complex problems into clear scope, sequence work incrementally and make pragmatic product decisions without needing all the answers upfront.
• A strong analytical and structured approach to problem solving.
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple teams and keeping delivery focused on outcomes.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of how shared platform capabilities can create leverage across a product portfolio.

Preferred

• Experience building geospatial data platforms or products involving maps, location intelligence or spatial data.
• Experience with GIS technologies, GeoJSON or spatial databases.
• Experience working with complex kerbside, parking, transport or mobility rules.
• Experience standardising fragmented datasets from multiple sources into a common canonical model.
• Experience with event‑driven data architectures and real‑time or near‑real‑time data processing.
• Experience applying AI/ML to geospatial or data‑quality problems, such as feature extraction, classification, anomaly detection or automated validation.
• Experience building developer‑facing products, APIs, SDKs or data services.
• Experience taking a platform from early‑stage architecture through to adoption across multiple products or teams.
• Experience working in SaaS, mobility, smart cities, transport or other location‑based technology environments.

Our tech stack

(This isn’t a shopping list — these are the technologies and patterns we use. We’d love to hear from people with some of these, or who are excited to pick them up and suggest alternatives.)

• C# .NET
• Aurelia, TypeScript
• Azure infrastructure (App Services, Function Apps, Container Apps, etc.)
• DDD, CQRS, Event‑Driven Architecture
• SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Azure Storage
• Service Bus
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Git, Octopus Deploy
• Pulumi for IaC
• Microservices, SOA
• Power BI
• Time‑series data processing
• QGIS and related GIS/GeoJSON tools

• Enjoy a competitive salary of £60,000 depending on your profile and experience
• 25 days’ holiday plus all UK bank holidays and accrue additional holiday for each year you work with us up to 30 days total - it’s our way of saying thank you!
• A hybrid flexible working model: Thursdays in our Covent Garden based office, and the option to work from home the rest of the week (if you that works for you), so that you don’t have to sacrifice your personal commitments
• Want to stay a little longer at your dream destination? Have greater flexibility to ‘Work from Anywhere’ for up to a week at time
• Experience true ownership! Everyone at AppyWay owns a piece of the pie through our share option scheme, so when AppyWay does well, so do you!
• Save and plan for the future with our enhanced company pension scheme provided by Royal London. The more you contribute, the more we’ll contribute too!
• We’ll work to protect your compensation from a rapidly changing economy by carrying out an annual Cost of Living exercise to ensure your salary stays ahead of rising prices and interest rates
• Whilst we hope you never have to use it, we offer our entire team Death in Service insurance cover
• Your wellbeing matters to us, gain access to GP consultations, nutritionists, dental advice and counselling on demand
• Access hundreds of perks, discounts, weekly freebies, cashback offers and discounted gym memberships to help with the cost of living changes via PerkBox
• Working on site? Enjoy a freshly made coffee from our onsite barista and a cold beverage at our bar at the end of the day!
• Everyone at AppyWay has their optimum setup, we’ll let you choose your own laptop, (PC or Mac) and accessories so you can work in comfort!
• Everyone at AppyWay has a clear growth framework and we’ll support you with the appropriate learning and development plan to achieve your goals
• Planning for or raising a family? You can expect to benefit from our inclusive leave options, nursing rooms and a dedicated plan to ensure you are fully supported on your return. You can also benefit from savings on nursery fees through our Workplace Nursery scheme
• We may work flexibly but we’re still a social bunch! Join one of our regular social events, group trips and activities throughout the year