Product Owner

We're looking for an experienced Product Owner to lead the end-to-end creation and launch of a best-in-class CFD and spread betting mobile app. In this high-impact role, reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you'll optimize our product development lifecycle through close collaboration with product and development teams.

**About Trade Nation**:
At Trade Nation, we empower our customers with insights that drive their trading decisions. Founded on principles of transparency and trust, we have established ourselves as a leading low-cost trading platform across multiple global markets including the UK, Australia, South Africa, Seychelles, and The Bahamas.

We celebrate innovation and are committed to minimizing trading costs while maximizing our customers' potential to succeed in the markets.

**Your Role**:
You are an innovative problem-solver who enjoys collaborating with various stakeholders to drive product success. Your ability to balance technical insight with customer perspective will allow you to thrive in our fast-paced, dynamic environment.

You'll champion the product vision, articulate user stories, and effectively work with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Own the development and launch of a best-in-class CFD and spread betting mobile app
- Translate complex business requirements into clear product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate closely with engineering and architecture to understand the technology stack, influence architectural decisions, and ensure scalability.
- Manage the technical product backlog, prioritising tasks, guiding estimation, identifying dependencies, and addressing technical debt.
- Lead Agile ceremonies and foster a collaborative culture within development teams and engagement with the wider business community and strategy
- Oversee release management with your QA, SRE and engineering team to ensure smooth and predictable deployments
- Act as the primary point of contact for development squads and communicate effectively with all stakeholders on roadmap delivery and technical concepts.

**Requirements**:

- 3-5+ years of proven success as a Product Owner, Technical Product Owner or Technical Business Analyst.
- Experience working in JIRA, Confluence, Figma, Miro (or similar tools) in a masterful way.
- Strong grasp of mobile development principles (native, hybrid, cross-platform frameworks like React Native), understanding of mobile-specific APIs, performance optimization for mobile, and considerations for offline functionality and data synchronization.
- Knowledge of mobile-specific testing methodologies, including device testing, network condition testing, performance and security testing.
- Excellent interpersonal, and presentation skills to clearly communicate delivery progress and timelines in different ways.
- Strong project and cross-functional stakeholder management skills.
- Experience cooperating with Engineering Leads to get the most out of development teams.
- Strong technical writing ability with experience co-creating and reviewing technical specifications and tasks.
- Experience managing and communicating releases to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Experience implementing agile processes and being able to adapt to the needs and capabilities of the business.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Proficiency in using mobile analytics tools to track user behavior, identify funnels, measure engagement, and inform product decisions.
- Proven experience in optimizing app store listings to improve discoverability and conversion rates on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
- Experience working with hybrid, remote, in-house, outsourced, and mixed-capability development teams.
- Experience working with tech stacks - such as C#, Python, Javascript / Typescript.