Data Product Owner

Over the past 25 years our company has transformed from a traditional financial publisher to a product-led Fintech, offering a global interchange connecting investors and managers to the people and insight-enriched data they need to raise and allocate assets. With Intelligence has recently raised a new round of funding from a successful technology investor with a value-creation plan centred around elevating our product to be the pioneering and market-leading platform we envisage. We are looking for data and user-centric people eager to help drive us through our next growth phase.

What you'll do:

• Gather and translate business requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritise the product backlog, understanding benefits to users and our business, and ensure it is aligned to the strategic roadmap.
• Lead refinement of requirements with the development team, focusing them on delivering value to our customers and business.
• Plan delivery of initiatives from Product Requirement Documents by identifying suitable breakdowns into epics and prescribing the MVP and subsequent releases.
• Manage dependencies with design, architecture and data and report on risks and issues.
• Triage bugs, identify steps to replicate and describe acceptance criteria.
• Oversee scrum ceremonies, unblock developers to facilitate efficient delivery, including setting clear sprint goals that ensure completion of a feature either for release, UAT or stakeholder demo.
• Demo to key stakeholders and produce user guides when required.
• Craft release notes both for internal client-facing teams and in support of product marketing and client communication functions.
• Run user acceptance testing where appropriate with internal teams and external clients.
• Own the set up of user engagement and KPI tracking for your features, reporting them to product management and identifying smaller enhancements to add straight to your backlog.

Requirements:

• Experience building successful relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• A user-centric mindset and familiarity with supporting product frameworks like personas, jobs-to-be-done, and user journey mapping.
• Take pride in the product, be eagle-eyed spotting bugs and opportunities for improvements and craft well considered features.
• Strong experience with user story requirements, SDLCs, unit tests and Gherkin acceptance criteria formats.
• Familiarity with modern data integration approaches.
• Experience working with ETL, data pipelines, data warehousing, and CDC methodologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices. Understand core agile methodologies such as scrum and kanban, be able to pick the right approach for your development team and spearhead ceremonies.
• Comfort with handling data and using it to inform making judgements, basic skills with Google Analytics, Tableau, SQL and such like are a bonus.
• Self-sufficient and organised - able to drive forward your plans with limited oversight.
• Take a pro-active approach to your learning and development while being able to take advice and reflect upon it.
• Experience in the financial service industry with knowledge of private markets and core asset management principles or a track record of quickly understanding similarly complex industries and use cases.
• Ability to translate technical engineering language to 'business speak' for your stakeholders and clearly articulate business priorities and user needs to the development team.

Benefits:

• 24 days annual leave rising to 29 days.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Medicash (Health Cash Plans).
• Wellness Days.
• Flexible Fridays (Opportunity to finish early).
• Birthday day off.
• Employee assistance program.
• Travel loan scheme.
• Charity days.
• Breakfast provided.
• Social Events throughout the year.
• Hybrid Working.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.