Platform Product Owner, Collections
Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams
As part of the fast-growing product team, you’ll drive and be a shining example of Product excellence within NewDay Cards. Reporting to the Product Manager and supporting the other product owners – you’ll craft the future of NewDay’s API platform – building premier API services. By taking the visions and goals of the Commercial and Technical teams, you’ll give our teams the clarity to develop, adapt and innovate at speed – while maintaining our high standard of quality and agile practice.
You’ll educate, advise and inspire the wider Digital team directly though contributions such as – but not limited to - writing for our Blog, presenting on technical topics and mentorship.
We help people move forward with credit, and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic NewDay culture
We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.
You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
0-12 months you'll deliver
The Platform product set for your team, implementing new platform capability, from capturing requirements through to delivery.
Pushing the boundaries of innovative experiences across our digital spaces, working with teams to structure the overall Collections product roadmap, as well as being responsible for the product roadmap.
Product capabilities against business strategic agenda and service performance goals.
A product built scale and configure, constructed within the guard rails of regulations where applicable.
Reporting progress, risks, issues and plans to NewDay leadership teams. Efficiently influencing external partners to ensure initiatives in their domains are delivered to high quality, on time and within budgets. Turning the dial on product success metrics and Digital key performance indicators.
Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, refinement/ planning sessions, retrospectives, and Show & Tells.
Content to our Engineering and Product community (internal and external) to champion a culture of learning, growing and innovation.
We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:
Leading and empowering teams, bringing people together on a positive journey.
Collaboration; able to arbitrate ambitious, sometimes conflicting priorities.
Successful and timely delivery of product roadmap.
Strong technical skills, working predominately with APIs and Cloud Services.
Simplifying sophisticated business processes and breaking them into meaningful user stories.
Appreciating and pre-empting the risk and impact of changes across multi products and overall business.
Attention to detail is a must-have, with full end to end accountability of digital delivery from requirements, development, shift left, deployment and monitoring.
And would love you to know or learn:
Regulatory change.
The inner workings of a fast-growing FinTech.
Microsoft Azure and GitHub.
In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.
We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.
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