Senior Product Owner

St. James's Place; Cirencester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days' annual leave + bank holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Generous Pension Scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

Protection Benefits

EV salary sacrifice scheme

Job summary

St. James's Place is seeking a Senior Product Owner to drive value across complex product areas within the Digital Product Team. You will bridge stakeholders and delivery teams, shaping requirements and prioritising backlogs to maximise business impact.

In a hybrid Cirencester-based role, you’ll own multiple products, guide teams and suppliers, and maintain a sharp focus on user experience and strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering large-scale product initiatives in financial services.
• Ability to articulate product vision and strategy to stakeholders.
• Strong backlog management and requirement defininition skills.
• Experience collaborating with development teams and third-party suppliers.
• Experience with product roadmaps and supplier roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy aligned with value stream OKRs.
• Own and maintain product backlog and roadmap, delivering features.
• Manage multiple products ensuring coherence across the portfolio.
• Provide guidance to development teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure product quality and user experience throughout delivery.
• Conduct market and competitor analysis to inform strategy.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Scrum knowledge

Communication skills

Unblocking delivery

JIRA

Agile methods

Financial services experience

Education

Product Ownership certification / PRINCE2 / Agile qualifications

Tools

JIRA

Salesforce

Job description

Are you ready to chart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success. This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.

At a glance

Location: Cirencester Office

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

About the role

The Change, Digital & Delivery division is responsible for driving business growth at SJP by delivering strategic change, optimising core processes, and enhancing experiences for clients, Partners, and employees. The division oversees the successful delivery of key programmes and projects, ensures our technology platforms are secure and high-performing, and manages critical third-party suppliers. Acting as a key enabler of transformation, it plays a central role in building the systems and capabilities that power the future of the business.

The Digital Product Team brings together specialist Product Owner teams aligned to key business capabilities. The function owns the digital tools and platforms that support the end‑to‑end financial advice process, working closely with a range of third‑party suppliers. Its focus is on delivering fit‑for‑purpose, intuitive products through strong user insight and active management of product and technology supplier roadmaps.

The Senior Product Owner will take ownership of several complex products and/or provide deep expertise in a specific product area to deliver maximum business value. You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and development teams, ensuring the successful delivery of high-value products. You will be responsible for defining product requirements, prioritising backlogs, and ensuring that the team delivers products aligned with business goals and customer needs.

What you’ll be doing

• Defining and articulating product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with the value stream’s OKRs.
• Creating, owning and maintaining the product backlog, delivering features aligned with business goals
• Managing multiple products within a portfolio, ensuring coherence and synergy across the product suite
• Providing vision, direction and assistance to the development teams.
• Ensuring the quality and user experience of the product, holding development and support teams to account for the delivery of that quality and experience.
• Conducting detailed market research and competitor analysis to inform product strategy and maintain a competitive edge

About You

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Owner who can build and maintain strong relationships and can work with business stakeholders to understand, inform and influence business and technology strategies.

Essential Criteria

• Ability to build strong relationships internally and externally, including tenacity in holding 3rd parties to account for delivery.
• Deep expertise in managing complex product lifecycles and delivering large-scale solutions
• Strong knowledge of Scrum theory and practices
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and able to liaise effectively at all levels within the business to understand, inform and influence business and technology strategies.
• Ability to clearly and concisely explain complex features and product visions to multiple stakeholders (including ‘what good looks like’, definition of done, MVP, and MMF)
• Experience working in financial services with a clear understanding of financial services and/or wealth management products.
• Proven experience unblocking delivery by tackling complex problems and influencing stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of other development methodologies approaches
• Working knowledge of JIRA
• Relevant professional qualifications in Product Ownership, PRINCE2 or Agile methodologies.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of Salesforce or other configuration-based software
• Experience of working in Value Streams

What's in it for you?

Whatever stage of life you're in, our benefits are designed to provide the support, flexibility, and peace of mind you need to thrive both at work and beyond.

In addition to our discretionary annual bonus scheme, which reflects both individual and company performance, you'll benefit from a market-leading benefits package tailored to support your wellbeing, financial security, and family life.

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Private Medical Insurance – company-funded cover for you and your immediate family
• Generous Pension Scheme – a non-contributory employer contribution of 10%, increasing with length of service up to 15%, plus the opportunity to increase this through salary sacrifice
• Enhanced Parental Leave – up to 26 weeks' full pay to support growing families.
• Protection Benefits – company-funded critical illness cover, income protection, and life assurance
• EV salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker

Reasonable Adjustments

We're an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at [e-mail]

Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.

As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.