Product Owner

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

ThinkMarkets, a global fintech company, seeks a Product Owner to shape and deliver AI-assisted digital products. You’ll own the backlog, define roadmaps, and collaborate with stakeholders, developers and QA to translate business needs into actionable requirements and acceptance criteria.

You will drive discovery using AI tools, refine the backlog, and ensure releases align with user needs, security, and scalability while maintaining strong client focus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as Product Owner or similar tech role.
• Experience owning backlogs and writing user stories in SDLC.
• Hands-on Agile/Scrum experience.
• Strong technical understanding of web and mobile apps, APIs, microservices, databases.
• Translate complex business requirements for engineering teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.
• Experience with JIRA.
• Fintech or AI-enabled product experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap and priorities.
• Leverage AI tools to support discovery, requirements and documentation.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog and delivery priorities.
• Translate business and technical requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement and contribute to sprint planning.
• Collaborate with tech teams to evaluate solutions for usability, performance, security.
• Document lifecycle requirements from concept to go-live with emphasis on user experience.
• Use data and feedback to identify product improvements.

Skills

Product backlog ownership

Write user stories

Agile/Scrum experience

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Web/mobile apps understanding

APIs & microservices knowledge

Engineering translation of reqs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Engineering/CS

Tools

JIRA

Claude (AI tools)

Job description

ThinkMarkets is a global financial technology company specializing in multi-asset trading solutions. Through our flagshipThinkTraderplatform, we empower clients worldwide to trade 24/7 across global markets. Our mission is to bridge the gap between traders, investors, and platforms, providing seamless access to thousands of financial instruments. Utilizingcutting-edgetechnology, we ensure a superior trading experience.

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team and play a key role in shaping and delivering innovative digital products, with a particular focus on AI-assisted solutions. In this role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, developers, QA teams and subject matter experts to translate business needs into clear product requirements and deliver high-quality solutions. You will own and prioritise the product backlog, define product roadmaps, and drive products from concept through to delivery, ensuring development remains aligned with business objectives, user needs, technical feasibility and emerging AI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and communicate the product vision, roadmap and priorities in line with business and technology objectives.
• Leverage AI tools such as Claude or Claude Code to support product discovery, requirements and documentation, ensuring accurate and validated outputs.
• Manage and prioritise the product backlog, balancing business value, customer needs, technical feasibility and delivery priorities.
• Gather, analyse and translate business and technical requirements into clear user stories, epics and acceptance criteria.
• Lead backlog refinement and contribute to sprint planning, ensuring requirements are clear and development-ready.
• Partner with technical teams to evaluate solutions and trade-offs across usability, performance, scalability, security and maintainability.
• Own product requirements and documentation across the full product lifecycle, from initial concept through development, testing and go-live, with a consistent focus on client experience and usability at each stage.
• Use data, user feedback and performance insights to identify and prioritise opportunities for product improvement.
• Manage multiple product initiatives in parallel, ensuring alignment with wider business priorities and product roadmaps.
• Act as the bridge between business and technology teams, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of priorities, progress and upcoming releases.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies, including AI and LLM capabilities, and identify relevant opportunities for product innovation.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Technical Business Analyst, Business Analyst or similar product-focused technology role.
• Strong experience owning product backlogs, writing user stories and requirements, and supporting products through the full SDLC.
• Hands-on experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Solid technical understanding of web and mobile applications, APIs, microservices, system integrations and relational databases.
• Sound grasp of data architecture, system dependencies and key technical considerations including security, scalability, performance and maintainability.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable requirements for engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across business, product and engineering teams.
• Comfortable using data and product performance metrics to support prioritisation and decision-making.
• Experience with product and project management tools such as JIRA.
• Experience within trading, fintech or financial services would be highly advantageous.
• Experience working with or exposure to AI-enabled products would be an advantage.