Senior Product Owner

Senior Product Owner
Location: Cardiff (Hybrid)
Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 + Bonus

CPS Group are working with a financial technology organisation that is investing heavily in its product function as it continues to expand across multiple markets. This is an great opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of a market-leading SaaS platform, working on greenfield initiatives alongside the ongoing evolution of established products.

This is a senior position offering genuine autonomy, strategic influence, and the opportunity to work with modern technologies, AI-driven innovation, and cross-functional teams to deliver products that have real business impact.

The Role

As a Senior Product Owner, you'll own one or more complex software products, defining product strategy, prioritising delivery, and ensuring your roadmap delivers measurable value to customers.

Working closely with Engineering, Technology, QA, Professional Services and senior business stakeholders, you'll drive product direction, manage competing priorities, and translate complex business challenges into clear, deliverable solutions.

You'll also help shape wider product strategy, mentor Product Owners within the team, and champion best practice across product discovery, backlog management and Agile delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Own the vision, roadmap and delivery of complex SaaS products.
Define priorities and make strategic product decisions that deliver measurable business value.
Lead product discovery and backlog management within an Agile/Scrum environment.
Translate complex business requirements into clear user stories and product outcomes.
Collaborate with Engineering, QA and Delivery teams throughout the development lifecycle.
Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influencing at all levels.
Analyse product performance using metrics and customer feedback to drive continuous improvement.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation and data-driven solutions to improve products and user experience.
Mentor and support other Product Owners, helping raise standards across the wider product team.

About You

We're looking for someone who has:

Significant experience as a Product Owner within Financial Services, FinTech or another highly regulated software environment.
Strong knowledge of lending, credit, loan origination, onboarding or loan servicing platforms.
Experience owning complex SaaS products across multiple customers or markets.
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence senior business leaders.
A proven track record of delivering large-scale software projects in Agile environments.
Strong experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps or similar.
The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on product ownership.
Experience mentoring or coaching other Product Owners would be highly advantageous.

Desirable

Experience delivering products across multiple countries or regulatory environments.
Exposure to AI or Machine Learning within software products.
Strong understanding of product analytics, KPIs and outcome-based product development.
Technical awareness of software architecture and modern SaaS platforms.

Contact: Zach Bennett - CPS Group

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