Product Owner

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Product Owner

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Edinburgh, Peterborough or Witham (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)

Salary: A competitive salary from £46,000 - £69,000, depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: Friday 13th December

We're Aegon. We're a company of ambitious, positive problem-solvers who get things done. We're a team, not a group of individuals. Collaboration is our life force and we believe it's our duty to leave things better than we find them.  

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

We’re excited to have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Owners to join our dynamic team!

As one of our Product Owners, your role will be pivotal in shaping how we connect with our users, providing seamless, engaging and innovative digital experiences.

We’re looking for someone to drive innovation and lead product development in our Retail team. If you are passionate about creating exceptional customer experiences for our users (advisers, customers and employers) and motivated to help us improve our proposition, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:

• Set a clear vision and purpose for the team based on the scope areas you will be looking after

• Creating/organising a backlog of work, ensuring it’s prioritised, understood and delivered by the team to the agreed Acceptance Criteria 

• Liaising with a range of key stakeholders to ensure objectives for product increments and sprints are well understood & supported

• Accountability for the feature delivery roadmap in your team, ensuring that key stakeholders are kept informed of progress.

• Building and maintaining a strong team ethos, ensuring full team involvement in activities with a clear vision and a strong sense of shared purpose to get the best out of your feature team members 

• You will support the wider business with its Agile Transformation by sharing ideas, acting as a champion, promoting positive team culture, driving continuous improvement, while help define best practice

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience as a Product Owner in an agile environment

• Understanding of financial services sector and the associated customer demands and dynamics

• Understanding of the regulatory framework in UK financial services and the application to customer conduct, financial promotions and product governance

• Understanding of the UK investment platform market and products within it

• Strong knowledge of UK long term savings and pensions propositions, digital features & capabilities

• Experience working within a UK platform

What’s in it for you?

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%

• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance

• 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

We ask everyone to be brave, raise their game, deliver first time, help others, and act in everyone’s best interests. If you recognise yourself in this, we’d love to hear from you.  

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.