About
At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology. Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Responsibilities
•Take ownership of a best-in-class lending product by scoping out breakthrough features, and owning the end-to-end delivery of your sub-domain(s) in close alignment with the Product and Engineering domain leaders.
•Own the Roadmap, vision and strategy for your sub-domain, contributing to the overall lending roadmap.
•Work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, document writers, and QA to drive the design and delivery of improvements to the product that align with the vision of the business, taking into account existing and potential clients.
•Confidently and independently prioritise incoming tasks and clearly communicate "the what" and "the why" of each decision to both internal and external stakeholders.
•Manage deadlines and be responsible for proactively raising delivery risks that may impact our client projects.
•Develop a close relationship with our Delivery and Customer Success teams, taking the lead on assessing feature requests and client requirements as a key input into overall feature and roadmap definition.
•Work closely with our Business Development team by helping the team understand Engine's capabilities in your domain and joining early-stage Sales conversations as an SME.
•Be responsible for being the champion of the feature, telling different teams and clients about the product, and adapting your style of communication and materials to different stakeholders.
•Manage difficult conversations with senior stakeholders both internally and externally, balancing strategic direction and pragmatic decision making.
•Enjoy problem solving, getting to the detail, and understanding how clients can make the best use of our product, whilst designing ways to improve it.
•Work spans product strategy, client-facing requirements gathering & solution design, and product ownership in an Engineering context.
•Have a technical mindset and enjoy working collaboratively with Engineering leadership to build scalable products for different market contexts.
Requirements
•You have been a Product Manager or Product Owner with demonstrated experience building and shipping complex and impactful products.
•You've built or significantly improved lending products before and are excited to own an ambitious sub-domain within Engine's lending.
•You have an appetite for learning, listening, and growing within an organisation that is constantly expanding.
•Prior experience or a strong baseline understanding of FinTech, or a regulated banking/lending environment.
•A product or engineering background, technical experience, or deep technical curiosity.
•You can clearly explain the "what", "how", and "why" behind the product backlog to your engineering and design triad, and you navigate risks and tradeoffs excellently.
•You're comfortable presenting in front of clients and can work closely with Client Success to manage expectations.
•You use your PM experience to contribute to team-wide improvements to ways of working and product process.
Nice to have
•Experience managing or coaching other PMs, but this is not essential.
•Experience with mortgages or secured term lending in particular is helpful but not essential.
Conditions
•We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.
•33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you).
•An extra day's holiday for your birthday.
•Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off.
•16 hours paid volunteering time a year.
•Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.
•Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection.
•Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care.
•Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton.
•Generous family-friendly policies.
•Incentives refer a friend scheme.
•Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks.
•Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing.
