Product Owner

S&P Global, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services company is seeking a Product Owner to join their Analytical Experience team in London. The role involves driving product innovation, managing cross-functional teams, and enhancing user experiences. Ideal candidates should have over 4 years of experience in product management within an Agile environment. This full-time position offers opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefits

Health & Wellness

Flexible Downtime

Continuous Learning

Family Friendly Perks

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management experience in an Agile environment.
• Strong knowledge of product management techniques including backlog management.
• Ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Define product features and oversee user flow.
• Manage multiple product backlogs efficiently.
• Communicate with users and technology teams to define requirements.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Product management

User experience design

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field

Job description

locations London, UK ES - MADRID PASEO DE LA CASTELLANA 7 PLANTA 6

time type Full time

posted on Posted Yesterday

time left to apply End Date: August 5, 2025 (3 days left to apply)

job requisition id 315638

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

The Team:

This roles sits within Analytical Product Management under the Analytical Experience team. As a Product Owner within the Analytical Experience Product Management team at S&P Global Ratings, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering innovative solutions that directly impact our global ratings services.

The Impact:

You will help lead the Agile transformation of our product management processes, ensuring we create high-value products that serve our users while driving the long-term success of S&P Global Ratings. By partnering with cross-functional teams and driving initiatives in Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, and automation, you will play a key role in accelerating the efficient execution of Content Management / publishingproduct strategies across all practices.

What You Stand to Gain:

• Career Growth: As part of the Analytical Product Management team, you will work alongside talented and experienced professionals, further developing your product management expertise , particularly within the financial services and ratings industry.

• Influence & Impact: Lead key product initiatives with a direct impact on global financial markets and S&P Global Ratings’ customers. Be at the forefront of driving product innovation, leveraging Agile methodologies and cutting-edge technology.

• Learning & Development: Participate in S&P Global's ongoing Agile transformation, gaining exposure to advanced product management practices, as well as cross-departmental collaboration and leadership development.

Responsibilities:

As a Product Owner, your responsibilities will include:

• Flow Design Thinking & Features: Operate under a flow design mindset, focusing on creating seamless and intuitive user experiences across the entire product journey. Focus on end-to-end user journey, understanding how each element of the features interacts with and impacts the product and overall user experience.

• Backlog Ownership & User Flow/Feature Prioritization. E nsu re user flow, including features and user stories are clearly defined, technical requirements are well articulated and aligned to business goals and user needs. Collaborate with senior Product Managers to define product priorities and groom the backlog effectively.

• Cross-team coordination: Ability to play a crucial role in managing multiple teams, ensuring teams ha ve a clear understanding of the product’s goals and priorities while maintaining a balance between competing demands. Effective management of multiple product backlogs, ensuring that each team is focused on delivering high value outcomes and improvements.

• Collaboration with Users & Development Teams: Work closely with users and Ratings Technology teams to define product requirements, deliverables, and timelines. Ensure clear communication of the team’s goals, requirements, and dependencies to drive successful product delivery.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead and collaborate with other Product Owners, Scrum Masters, designers, and developers to ensure consistency, quality, and alignment in product development. Champion best practices in Agile processes and ensure teams are empowered to achieve results.

• Product Roadmap Development: Support the development and refinement of the product roadmap. Ensure it reflects strategic objectives , customer needs, and technological advancements. Stay informed on market and industry trends to shape the future of our product offerings.

• User-Centric Product Development: Actively gather user feedback, analyze customer insights, and identify opportunities to integrate improvements and new features into the user flow and product roadmap. Advocate for user needs while balancing business requirements and technical feasibility.

• Innovation & Risk Management: Drive innovation by identifying emerging technologies and trends that may affect the product landscape. Proactively manage product risks, ensuring that potential roadblocks are identified and mitigated early in the development process.

• Stakeholder Communication: Communicate regularly with stakeholders to provide updates on product status, timelines, and risks. Act as the primary point of contact for key product initiatives, ensuring alignment across internal and external stakeholder groups.

• Product Demos & Training: Lead and participate in product demos to end-users and other stakeholders. Collaborate with Product Enablement teams to create adoption strategies, training materials, and communication plans for product features.

What We’re Looking For:

We are seeking a Product Owner with:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field. Product Management certification(s) are a plus.

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 4+ years of product management experience, with a proven track record of delivering successful products within an Agile environment ( SAFe Agile or similar framework). Experience within financial services or ratings is highly preferred, but not required . Strong knowledge of product management techniques including backlog management, writing features and user stories, and working with cross-functional teams.

• Flow Optimization. Prioritize user experience and holistic design, not just discrete features. Ensure features delivered fits seamlessly into broader user flow.Facilitate workshops and design sprints to identify opportunities for flow improvement.

• Challenge Traditional Thinking. Guide teams to think strategically about entire user journey, ensuring product evolves as a cohesive system rather than collection of separate features.

• Technical Expertise: Solid understanding of technical requirements and how they impact the product. Ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams, making informed trade-offs where necessary.

• Agile Methodologies: In-depth experience working in Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe). Familiarity with Agile frameworks and how to effectively implement them in product development.

• Customer Focus: A strong customer-centric mindset with the ability to gather, interpret, and act upon customer feedback to drive product improvements.

• Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to present product ideas and solutions to stakeholders at all levels and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Problem Solving & Innovation: Strong problem-solving skills, with a creative and innovative approach to overcoming product challenges and seizing new opportunities.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Comfortable with data analysis and making decisions based on KPIs, metrics, and performance analytics.

• Risk Management: Experience in risk assessment and mitigation strategies, ensuring smooth product delivery and minimizing potential disruptions.

About S&P Global Ratings
At S&P Global Ratings, our analyst-driven credit ratings, research, and sustainable finance opinions provide critical insights that are essential to translating complexity into clarity so market participants can uncover opportunities and make decisions with conviction. By bringing transparency to the market through high-quality independent opinions on creditworthiness, we enable growth across a wide variety of organizations, including businesses, governments, and institutions.

S&P Global Ratings is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/ratings

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected andengaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

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