Product Owner

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking for a better way of doing things?  
• Do you want to keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience delivering for a FinTech scaleup in the embedded payments space?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to lead product and user experience activities across an exciting range of industry verticals with a rapidly growing customer base?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

We are one of the fastest-growing payments businesses in the UK and Europe and are looking to hire ambitious, and value-adding talent. The Senior Product Manager, UX is a key role within the product team and will play a critical role in driving the success and evolution of our products for a range of industry verticals.

About Us

At Modulr, our vision is a world where all businesses are powered by embedded payments.

Modulr enables thousands of businesses, from SMEs to Enterprises, across the UK and Europe to efficiently pay-in, collect and disburse funds instantly via a range of payment methods, accounts, and card products.

We’ve created an industry-leading platform with comprehensive online tools and API access, to meet the demands of daily business payments. We are connected to an expanding network of accounting and payroll platforms, including Sage, Xero, BrightPay and IRIS. Our payments expertise and extensive product capability also enables us to build tailored solutions to solve complex payment problems for hundreds of clients in a range of industries, including Travel, Merchant Payments, Lending, Wage Advance and Investment & Wealth.

We are deeply integrated into the payments ecosystem. In the UK, we are direct participants of Faster Payments and Bacs, and hold settlement accounts at the Bank of England. Our payment network connectivity includes CHAPS, Open Banking, SEPA and SWIFT. We are principal issuing members of Visa and Mastercard across the UK and Europe.

Our regulatory permissions and governance structure underpin our business. We are regulated as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) in the UK by the Financial Conduct Authority and in the Netherlands by De Nederlandsche Bank.

Our founding team has a wealth of experience in the payments industry and growing successful businesses. Modulr is backed by the venture arms of payments giants PayPal and FIS, as well as growth investors Blenheim Chalcot, General Atlantic, Frog Capital and Highland Europe.

Modulr now has over 400 employees globally across offices in London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Mumbai.

Modulr values

• Build the extraordinary and go that extra mile.
• Own the opportunity: be passionate and proud of the time you invest.
• Move at pace: reach your goals faster with us supporting you each step of the way.
• Achieve it together: work as a team, collaborating with other Modulites.

The Role

The Product Owner is a key role within Modulr and will directly impact the growth and scale of the business by driving delivery of fixes, enhancements and new products. 

Key responsibilities

• Be an intrinsic member of assigned agile quads, representing product and driving the timely execution of roadmap whilst managing product incidents, support requests and engineering initiatives.
• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in Payments & Scheme rules, guidance and requirements. ecoming a key go.
• Developing an understanding of the value proposition of the products you manage, their positioning in each of the verticals and how they solve their customers’ problems.
• Creating requirements and product stories in an Agile development environment, working with both internal and external stakeholders to elicit requirements to ensure all regulatory, Scheme and operational standards are met.
• Defining the product and technical roadmap for the engineering team, ensuring requirements are clearly articulated and communicated to your agile quad(s), and prioritise work that delivers value within each sprint.
• Ensuring a clear product development plan that aligns with any external and internal milestones.
• Actively managing key supplier relationships relating to assigned products & services.
• Developing and supporting launching the product, ensuring impacts on teams across the business are assessed, and actively managed/signed off ahead of go-live.
• Creating and maintaining internal documentation and functional overview(s)for use by stakeholders, and supporting development of external collateral including technical and propositional materials where needed.
• Responsible for regularly communicating updates on progress, ensuring any issues are pro-actively managed.
• Establishingthe performance and scalability of your products against KPIs, including monitoring ensuring issues are triaged and resolved in a timely manner,and also responding to changes in the market and client demands.
• Working closely with the wider product & marketing team to ensure we successfully package products to solve problems for our customers in our target verticals.

Opportunity 

This role is an excellent platform for experienced professionals to take their career to the next level and an opportunity unlikely to be found anywhere else.

About you

You will have a track-record of delivering results in a fast-moving business where complexity and ambiguity is the norm. Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration is essential to being successful in this role.

• Relevant experience as a Product Owner/ Product Manager, or a strong background in a Technical leadership role or similar.
• A proven track record of delivery in a high-growth, fast-paced environment, able to demonstrate a strong ability to balance multiple priorities that may change frequently.
• Ideally a background in Payments, particularly the technical operation of Payment Schemes, Settlement and interfaces/gateways.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail and experience of agile tooling & methodologies.
• Outstanding communication skills, able to manage internal and external stakeholders at all levels. 
• Be able to operate at a range of levels – both in terms of big picture strategic thinking, thought leadership and getting into the data and analysis.
• Strong collaborative skills and enjoys working with different functions within the business.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, who can operate at a range of levels – both in terms of big picture strategic thinking, thought leadership, and getting into the data and analysis.

What can Modulr offer you

You’ll be part of a cross disciplinary team(s), with co-workers located in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and/or Mumbai. We are friendly and sociable, challenging but rewarding. We want you to push yourself and for us to support you in your future as we scale up and grow. Our culture and values put you first and are about investing in your future. 

• Share Options Incentive Scheme
• Company Bonus - the more successful we are together, the more company bonus we offer
• Benefits pot - £1000 towards a variety of benefits for you to choose (including healthcare, dental etc), Perkbox (freebies and discounts!), plus access to season ticket loans
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) + your birthday off - choose which days you take off to relax and/or spend time with loved ones
• Learning Opportunities – on joining Modulr you will embark on our 3-day onboarding programme, called ModStart, to be equipped with the Modulr know-how and arm you with the tools you need to be successful from day 1! But, we don’t want your learning to stop there so we will continue to provide you with the tools and capabilities through our learning channels, platforms and Buddy allocation to allow you to grow and develop in Modulr. 
• Modulr All hands - join your colleagues for our company wide events throughout the year
• Great workspace - Modulr thrives on innovation which is best done through in-person collaboration. This approach enables us to work together closely, exchange ideas, and create innovative solutions that drive our success. 
• Bike to work scheme

ModInclusion 

We believe that by seeing Modulr, and the world, from all sorts of angles, we can make life better for all.​ We want you to know that the things that make you, you — like your identity, age, ability, and background — are things that we will always celebrate and support with open arms.  As such, we are keen to maximise the diversity of our workforce and actively encourage applications from anyone and everyone.

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