Senior Product Owner

St. James's Place; Cirencester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme

Parental leave

Protection benefits

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

St. James's Place in Cirencester is seeking a Senior Product Owner to steer complex product portfolios within the Digital Product Team. You will translate business needs into clear requirements, own the backlog, and collaborate with stakeholders and developers to deliver high-value features.

You’ll drive product strategy, ensure strong user experiences, and align roadmaps with business goals in a hybrid work environment. Relevant ownership or agile qualifications are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading complex product lifecycles within financial services.
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable product requirements.
• Proven track record delivering high-value features with strong UX focus.

Responsibilities

• Define product vision and strategy aligned with OKRs.
• Own and maintain product backlog to deliver features.
• Manage multiple products, ensuring coherence across portfolio.
• Provide vision and guidance to development teams.
• Ensure quality and user experience of products.
• Conduct market research to inform strategy.

Skills

Scrum/Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Product lifecycle

Cross-functional leadership

Communication skills

Financial services knowledge

Vendor management

Defining product vision

Education

Product Ownership cert

PRINCE2 cert

Tools

Salesforce

JIRA

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.

Our benefits include:

• 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.