Product Lead Financial Services

Utility Warehouse; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in the UK is looking for a Product Lead to oversee their Cashback and Insurance sectors. The ideal candidate will set product strategy, drive commercial outcomes, and manage a team of Product Managers. Responsibilities include defining product vision, ensuring compliance, and fostering collaboration with stakeholders. The role requires strong leadership skills and commercial acumen, as well as the ability to create impactful product propositions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management, ideally in financial services.
• Strong leadership skills with a track record of managing product teams.
• Ability to drive strategic initiatives and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product strategy for Cashback and Insurance products.
• Ensure compliance and integration within multi-service offerings.
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers.

Skills

Product strategy development

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Cross-sell strategies

Job description

The Product Lead for Financial Services is the single-threaded owner for Cashback and Insurance at UW. You will accountable for setting product direction, owning outcomes, and leading multiple squads and PMs across a regulated, commercially critical domain that directly impacts acquisition, retention, and customer lifetime value. The focus of the role is to make UW's Financial Services products easy to understand, easy to buy, and easy to scale, while ensuring compliance-by-design and strong integration with UW's broader multi-service propositions. This is a portfolio-level leadership role: bridging company strategy and execution, shaping long-term direction, and ensuring teams consistently deliver meaningful business outcomes We work together. Your team and the people you will work with… Reporting to VP, Product, this role will manage a squad of 3-5 Product Managers whilst collaborating closely with engineering leadership and commercial stakeholders. We deliver progress.

What you’ll do and how you will make an impact

• Own the Vision & Strategy: You will define and drive the product strategy for our Cashback card and Insurance pillars, translating high-level company goals into bold product bets that deliver undeniable customer value and commercial growth. You'll create and maintain a multi-year strategic roadmap for their domain, anticipating future technical and market needs.
• Champion Commercial Impact: Take full accountability for critical outcomes-including conversion, revenue, and LTV. You will understand build-vs-buy decisions, and apply ruthless prioritisation to ensure the team can move quickly and deliver meaningful outcomes within a complex regulated landscape.
• Architect Game-Changing Propositions: Design and evolve bundling and cross-sell strategies that build trust and drive retention. You'll create a multi-year roadmap that anticipates market shifts and keeps us ahead of the curve.
• Empower & Elevate Talent: Lead, coach, and inspire a team of 3-5 Product Managers. You will set clear guardrails and foster a design-led culture where your team has the autonomy to execute with confidence.
• Unite Engineering & Stakeholders: Act as a strategic partner to Engineering, Compliance, and Commercial leads. You will serve as the senior product voice, ensuring our architecture supports our strategy and that we deliver "compliant by design" products with seamless execution.