Lead Product Owner

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform empowering the future of financial services. As a tech company, we enable businesses to easily provide trusted and innovative financial experiences to their customers. Through smart APIs, our partners can embed financial services quickly and compliantly into their own product offerings.
We love what we do and we love our team. We are 750 people from over 60 nationalities - a unique blend of techies, fintech enthusiasts, bankers and entrepreneurs from various industries. Our routines are built around genuinely valuing and exchanging different perspectives as well as actively sharing knowledge as we drive our business as a team. We believe and invest in personal growth.
Job Overview:
The Lead Product Owner will work with the Head of Product to define and communicate product strategy and roadmaps in alignment with company goals and objectives.
We have talented teams across all our functions, and we are always interested in talking to more talented people who want to be a part of this journey.
Your Role:
Lead a team of Product Owners, providing guidance, and support to ensure successful go-to market and operational readiness activities for the Solaris Product function.
Work with the Product Delivery function to gather requirements, prioritise features, and define product backlogs.
Collaborate with key cross -functional stakeholders to ensure products are stood up operationally from launch.
Conduct market research and work with key partners to understand market trends when ideating new product features.
Maintain strong relationships with Solaris’ key suppliers and provide guidance to Product Owners in that capacity.
Carry out supplier performance monitoring and work with internal functions to identify new suppliers as and when necessary.
Ensure implementation of KPIs across the product suite to ensure each feature meets the customers’ needs whilst satisfying relevant regulatory requirements.
We'd Love to See:
Proven Experience as a Product Owner in the financial services sector with an understanding of the end to end product lifecycle.
Proven track record or developing and executing on product roadmaps and delivering tangible business outcomes.
Comprehensive knowledge of the payments landscape in the UK and Europe including customer trends and evolving regulatory frameworks. Ability to harness this knowledge to develop innovative solutions to meet customer’s needs.
Strong experience in stakeholder management across both internal stakeholders (Compliance, Sales, Marketing, Engineers, Business Leaders) and external stakeholders (Regulators, Clients, Suppliers)
Understanding of Agile Methodologies and the and experience working in Agile Development environments and managing and prioritising backlogs.
Why Work at Solaris?
We seek out and hire only exceptional talent, and therefore recognise that each individual brings value and contribution which has made us who we are today.
We have a tech stack to be proud of and a working environment framed by our values and behaviours.
We are passionate people who share a common vision, can think big, and thrive on delivering results.
We value diversity of thought and expect that you bring all of you to work; your passion, creativity and ideas on how we can be the best in the space that we operate in.
In return we will help you to be the very best that you can, we will support with development, give you opportunities to get involved in key projects and offer exposure to challenges that you may not get in a larger organisation.
Benefits:
25 days annual leave
Birthday Policy
Yearly Performance Bonus
EAP
Employee Referral Bonus
Private healthcare
Pension scheme, with Company contribution
Membership of our life insurance scheme
Annual Growth & Development allowance
Volunteering days
Access to Thrive mental health app
While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We'd love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.
Solaris is an equal opportunity employer, embraces diversity and builds an inclusive environment for its employees and customers. We consider all applicants for employment regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
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