Lead Product Owner - Operational Workflow

Location: Hybrid, Leeds or Edinburgh, UK; at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site.

Salary: £78,098–£91,880 per year, plus benefits.

Company

hirify.global is investing in its people, places, and technology to serve 28 million customers and develop the future of finance.

What you will do

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the W&I Operational Workflow product.
• Prioritise modernisation and simplification opportunities based on customer benefit, commercial value, feasibility, risk, and strategic fit.
• Translate customer and operational needs into reusable capabilities, measurable outcomes, objectives, key results, and product measures.
• Lead multiple feature teams delivering business and technology change, while maintaining operational continuity.
• Own the product backlog, manage dependencies, make trade-off decisions, and focus resources on the highest-value outcomes.
• Build investment cases and influence senior internal stakeholders to secure alignment and remove delivery barriers.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience as a Product Owner leading complex change and delivery at scale.
• Evidence of modernising and simplifying operational workflow tools and solutions.
• Recent experience leading multiple feature teams in an agile environment to deliver business and technology change.
• Strong commercial acumen, including defining benefits and managing product value.
• Experience setting product vision and strategy and translating customer and business needs into outcomes, roadmaps, and prioritised backlogs.
• Strong delivery leadership, with the judgement to intervene, unblock issues, and hold teams and partners accountable for outcomes.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment with an extensive benefits package.
• Hybrid working with workplace adjustments available for colleagues with disabilities.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, learning, and development.
• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.
• Disability Confident Scheme interview guarantees apply to a fair and proportionate number of applicants meeting the minimum criteria.

Hiring process

• Apply through the hirify.global careers application for Job ID 165510.