Senior Product Owner

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Senior Product Owner

Contract Type: Permanent | Full Time

Location: Bradford, London, Petersfield and Chatham

Working Pattern: Hybrid (usually 1 day a week in the office).

We welcome flexible arrangements and will aim to match your current flexibility where possible.

What We Offer

We care about your wellbeing, not just your work. Our benefits are designed to support your life, your health and your growth:

• Holidays: 25 days (rising to 30) + buy/sell up to 5 days + swap up to 4 bank holidays.
• Pension: Up to 10% employer contribution.
• Enhanced Leave: Enhanced maternity (post-probation), 4 weeks' paternity, and paid neonatal & carers leave.
• Workations: Work abroad for up to 20 days a year in approved countries.
• Birthday Leave: Your birthday off - paid.
• Volunteering: 2 paid volunteering days.
• Learning: Access to LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.
• Financial Wellbeing: Free Snoop Premium subscription.
• Healthcare: Self-pay Denplan & optional Private Medical Insurance.

You and your Team

Responsible for the delivery of digital change across Vanquis and Snoop, transforming ideas into high-value product features that support our strategic objectives. We work as a cross-functional Agile team and bringing together designers SMEs, developers and QAs, to design, build and iterate digital experiences at pace. Partnering closely with senior stakeholders, we prioritise based on customer insight, business value and regulatory needs, ensuring every change delivers meaningful impact. We remove blockers, maintain delivery cadence and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Above all, we empower our people, developing our Product Owners and wider teams to perform at their best while shaping the future of Vanquis' digital products.

As a Senior Product Owner, you will:

• Lead the delivery of digital change across the Mobile App, Snoop and Account Opening journeys, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives while removing blockers and maintaining delivery cadence through effective stakeholder engagement
• Lead and mentor cross-functional Agile delivery teams-developers, QAs, designers and business SMEs-driving Agile best practice across the organisation and ensuring stakeholders understand their roles to maintain a strong delivery cadence.
• Lead ideation, prioritisation and iterative design by analysing quantitative and qualitative customer and business data to identify opportunities, collaborating with designers, BAs and third parties to shape solutions, applying data-driven UX/UI insights, ensuring regulatory alignment, and validating concepts through targeted customer research.
• Refine designs and develop early prototypes with the cross-functional team and customers, using feedback to optimise solutions, while defining and maintaining clear technical requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria in Agile tools such as Jira.
• Support QA by overseeing testing activities and providing Product Owner approval as the final stage gate in the development lifecycle, ensuring full sign-off and managing the delivery of new features and experiences as part of the broader release management process.
• Lead Agile sprint ceremonies, including refinement, planning, design review and retrospectives, to ensure smooth and effective delivery.
• Provide leadership and direction to the cross-functional delivery team, remove obstacles to progress, and manage day-to-day team operations alongside key business stakeholders involved in the delivery process

What We're Looking For

• In depth knowledge of digital & mobile applications and financial services
• Extensive experience of delivering agile change
• Extensive technical skills that can be applied to solution design and improvement
• Ability in conducting qualitative and quantitative customer research
• Experience in developing and delivering product strategy
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and work effectively across teams, suppliers, and wider stakeholders to maintain alignment and drive delivery
• Demonstrable experience in people leadership, including line-managing Product Owners and coaching them to become effective, high-performing product leaders.

Offers are subject to standard background checks (credit, fraud and employment references).

Who we are

At Vanquis, our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking that helps people make the most of life's opportunities. Founded in 1880, we're now a FTSE All Share specialist bank supporting over 1.7 million UK customers with responsible, tailored lending.

We're proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK's Best Employers 2025 - ranked top 50 nationwide and seventh in Banking & Financial Services.

We're also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant, actively supporting veterans, reservists and military families.

Guided by our values - caring for people, pulling together, finding better ways and getting the right things done - we're building a workplace where colleagues feel connected, valued and empowered. Alongside competitive pay, we offer meaningful benefits, salary reviews, a discretionary bonus scheme and continued recognition.

We're invested in your development too. With the right support and hands-on learning, you'll grow your skills, shape your career and realise your ambitions.

How We Hire
We use AI to help organise applications and surface early matches, but all decisions are made by humans. Please apply authentically - especially during interviews.

Equal Opportunities

Vanquis Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value everyone's unique background, identity and experience, and we're committed to a workplace where all colleagues can thrive.

If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please contact careers@vanquis.com and we'll be happy to help.

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