Product Owner (Pricing)

London Metal Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

London Metal Exchange (LME) is seeking a Product Owner to drive the product vision and backlog for core trading and post-trade solutions. You will work with the business owner, service owner, and stakeholders to define objectives, prioritise the backlog, and guide delivery teams.

You will lead sprint planning, refine requirements, and ensure the delivery of value-aligned features. A financial/exchange background and strong Agile experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience as Product Owner/Manager in a financial or exchange environment.
• Strong knowledge of IT, management and Agile software development.
• Experience with Scrum, Kanban and Lean frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap with business owner and stakeholders to deliver the solution.
• Maintain and refine a healthy product backlog aligned to goals.
• Provide vision and direction to delivery teams and ensure backlog health.
• Mitigate impediments impacting release/sprint goals.
• Clarify scope and help teams break down features.
• Scope product releases and set delivery expectations for new functionality.
• Evaluate work against acceptance criteria and outcomes.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners and manage stakeholders.
• Create user stories, epics, features and acceptance criteria.
• Gather requirements and draft high level specifications.
• Participate actively in Sprint Planning and content decisions.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile methodologies

Backlog management

Education

Agile Leadership Training

CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)

PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner)

Job description

Overall Purpose of Role

You will join the product team at the core of delivering high quality, innovative and relevant solutions to the LME with the purpose of:

• In conjunction with the business owner, sets the product vision, objectives and outcomes
• Accountable for maximizing the value of the product, the delivery of the product goal and product backlog
• Represent the needs of the many stakeholders across LME and LME Clear
• Has the mandate to make business decisions where impact is contained within the product
• Owns the product backlog prioritisation and sequencing, ensuring the team implements the right requirements
• Accountable for all stages of the delivery

Overall Purpose of Role

You will join the product team at the core of delivering high quality, innovative and relevant solutions to the LME with the purpose of:

• In conjunction with the business owner, sets the product vision, objectives and outcomes
• Accountable for maximizing the value of the product, the delivery of the product goal and product backlog
• Represent the needs of the many stakeholders across LME and LME Clear
• Has the mandate to make business decisions where impact is contained within the product
• Owns the product backlog prioritisation and sequencing, ensuring the team implements the right requirements
• Accountable for all stages of the delivery

Shift Pattern

Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Corporate Grade

C - Vice President

Reporting Line

(UK Division) Trading & COO

Location

UK-London

Worker Type

Permanent

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Business Owner and Service Owner and other stakeholders to define the roadmap with the key product goals and objectives needed to deliver the solution. Build and maintain a healthy backlog
• Constantly manage priorities to ensure work is focused, with effective management and refinement of the product backlog
• Provide vision and direction to the delivery teams; ensure that the team always has a healthy backlog of work
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Ensure scope is always clear and understood and support teams to elaborate and break-down features
• Lead the scoping of product releases; set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Evaluate the work generated by the delivery teams against Acceptance Criteria and desired outcomes
• Collaborate and coordinate with other Product Owners as applicable Manage stakeholders
• Create user stories, epics, and features and acceptance criteria
• Gathering requirements and writing high level requirements
• Key participant in Sprint Planning and agreeing content for each Sprint

Desirable Academic And Professional Qualifications Required

• Agile Leadership Training
• CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) – Product Owner Certification
• PSPO (Professional Scrum Product Owner) preferable not essential

Required Knowledge And Level Of Experience

• Experience working as a Product Owner / Product Manager
• Experience working in an exchange or financial organisation
• Sound knowledge in IT, management, and agile software development.
• Experience of using Agile methods and frameworks e.g. Scrum, Kanban and Lean as a minimum

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression & reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.