Senior Product Owner

As a Product Owner, you will manage the execution of NMI’s strategy and roadmap, while facilitating backlog grooming, prioritisation, triage and other development ceremonies. Our Product Owners also take an active role in product launches, ensuring internal stakeholders are trained on the latest product capabilities. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision and attention to detail, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time learning the product and understanding its users in order to make the best design decisions for our clients.

What will I be doing?
- Prioritise the product backlog and coordinate with stakeholders including the Product Manager, customer facing teams, executives, and your development team to deliver maximum value and quality to the market
- Serve as a subject matter expert in the relevant product domains
- Develop an understanding of the target market and user base; Uses this to guide product decisions
- Develop epics and user stories for all new functionality, present user stories to product teams and ensure new functionality meets the acceptance criteria
- Partner with stakeholders to help define Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that delivers incremental value; Ensure MVP aligns with product vision and NMI’s strategic goals
- Work with development team, Product Manager and other Product Owners to do release planning
- Write detailed release notes and provides product training to internal teams
- Conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure new products and functionality work as expected
- Work with other Product Owners to ensure dependencies are prioritized appropriately across teams
- Communicate work in progress and upcoming work to key stakeholders
- Ensure the conceptual and functional integrity of new features or components
- Help establish timelines and product benchmarks
- Develop the voice of customer information through customer interviews

Do I have what it takes?
The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity and approaches problem solving, teamwork, and innovation with a positive attitude. This person has a very strong understanding of our customers, including the driving forces in payments technology and product evolution. Must possess strong coaching skills and the ability to motivate teams and individuals around a common vision of product development excellence.

- At least 1-3 years of product owner experience or similar/equivalent
- Ideal candidate has experience in Ecommerce, Retail and/or Payments technology. Payment technology experience preferred
- Ability to take business requirements and translate them into detailed product specifications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with customers, business and technical team members across the organization
- Knowledgeable in technology and comfortable reading technical specifications and working with APIs and SDKs
- Ability to effectively communicate and work in a distributed environment with colleagues located in different geographical regions and across various levels of departments
- Passion for solving puzzles and understanding how different solutions work together in a retail, ecommerce or payments environment

Please check out our careers page: https://www.nmi.com/eu/careers/company

Benefits 

As well as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:

• Annual bonus scheme dependent on individual and company performance 
• Annual salary of £50,000 - £66,000
• 25 days holiday each year (+ bank holidays + 1 day after each year of service with up to a max. of 30 days)
• Workplace pension scheme
• Private medical insurance (upon 30 days of employment)
• 7 hours per day, 35 hours per week
• A remote first culture
• Great work-life balance with our Flexi-time policy
• Family Friendly policies (Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay and Shared Parental Leave).
• A chance to develop with an allocated company training budget
• Bike2Work Scheme
• Lifeworks, an Employee Assistance Programme which offers wellbeing, family and financial support services, such as assessments, resources and even 1:1 counselling sessions. It also offers interesting perks such as discounts on gyms, restaurants, high street retailers and cinema tickets
• A strong commitment to employee wellbeing including mental health first aiders
• Employee referral scheme with generous financial reward
• Bonusly colleague reward scheme

We’re looking for creative and passionate people who share our vision of making payments easy. If that sounds like you and you meet the requirements above, then please click on 'Apply for this job'!

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and will provide reasonable support throughout the recruitment process to applicants who have a disability. Please let us know in advance so that any support, aids or adaptations can be put in place to assist you.

Please be aware that all offers of employment are made subject to receipt of satisfactory background and financial checks.

About us

NMI enables our partners with choice, and challenges the one-size-fits-all approach to payments. You've probably used NMI in the last 24 hours without even realising it. We’re the platform that powers success for innovative tech created by SMBs, entrepreneurs and fintech start-ups. We’re creative problem solvers who help visionaries smash through boundaries and think beyond what’s possible so they can think about what’s next. But we’re not just built for the tech savvy. We democratise the latest payments technology so that everyone can realise the benefits of easy payments across the full spectrum of commerce. We’re all about enabling more payments in more ways and more places.

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