Product Owner (Financial Markets)

Location: Amsterdam, North Holland

Salary: EUR per year, negotiable

Company

Levy Global is a specialist consulting and recruitment partner supporting technology professionals and connecting them with projects and roles across the UK, Europe, and North America.

What you will do

• Own and prioritise the roadmap and backlog for two squads supporting Equity Structured Products and Listed Derivatives/Fixed Income.
• Translate business needs into outcomes, requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities.
• Improve execution and trade capture flows across applications, squads, and stakeholders.
• Manage change intake, release planning, vendor governance, prioritisation decisions, and communication.
• Turn incidents and operational risks into preventative backlog items while coordinating with operations.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and align neighbouring Product Owners to deliver end-to-end value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 7+ years of experience in Financial Markets and/or Treasury, including ownership of change delivery in complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong knowledge of cash equities, equity-based structured products, and front-to-back trading, execution, trade capture, and downstream processing.
• Understanding of product flows, controls, risk points, operational handoffs, and application capabilities in an IT delivery context.
• Experience prioritising competing demands and making explicit trade-offs across scope, time, and risk.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills in English, plus experience in an Agile/Scrum setting.

Nice to have

• Experience with vendor trading platforms and release or change processes such as Fidessa or Horizon.
• Exposure to leveraged derivatives, listed commodities, or fixed income in a front-to-back context.
• Experience working in regulated environments with audit-ready decision-making.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent position within a change delivery organisation for Financial Markets.
• End-to-end squad ownership of technology delivery and evolution.
• Collaboration with Trading, Sales, Risk, Operations, IT, Procurement, and neighbouring Product Owners.
• Opportunity to improve sustainable solutions and reduce key-person dependencies.