Product Owner

About us

EC Markets UK is an FCA-regulated broker building a mobile-first trading and investing platform for UK retail customers. We combine in-house engineering with specialist partners to give customers access to global markets, with market intelligence, AI-assisted analysis and education built in. We are early in the journey and building for the long term.

The role

You will be the first hire in our product function. You will take the high-level vision and turn it into features, user stories and acceptance criteria that our engineering and design teams can build from first time.

This is a hands-on role. You will own the backlog, run refinement and be in the detail every day. For the right person, it is the foundation of a product career: the team will grow as the platform does, and so will your scope.

What you will do

Break epics into well-structured features, user stories and testable acceptance criteria

Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing customer value, commercial impact, regulatory need and technical effort

Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint reviews with engineering and design

Turn complex ideas into clear user flows, process maps and diagrams using Miro, Confluence and similar tools

Work with compliance, risk, operations, dealing, marketing and customer service to capture requirements early

Challenge assumptions, including those of senior leadership, using customer insight, data and commercial reasoning

Use product analytics and customer feedback to measure what we ship and shape what comes next

Help define how product works here: templates, Definition of Ready and Done, documentation standards

What you will bring

[2+] years in an agile delivery team as a Product Owner, Business Analyst or similar role

A track record of writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria (for example Given/When/Then) that engineers build without rework

Hands-on Scrum or Kanban experience: you have run the ceremonies, not just attended them

Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence, plus a whiteboarding tool such as Miro or FigJam

A strong academic record or equivalent evidence that you learn fast

Commercial awareness and a customer-first, data-led mindset

The confidence to challenge constructively, and the openness to be challenged

Excellent written communication

Experience in fintech, trading, investing, payments or another regulated industry

Experience on mobile app products

Familiarity with product analytics tools (PostHog, Metabase or similar) or basic SQL

A Product Owner certification (PSPO or CSPO): useful, not required

Why join

Be first in and shape how product works at EC Markets from day one

Work directly with the MD and senior leadership team

Be part of something big: an industry challenger, built from inception

A clear path into broader product roles as the team scales

EC Markets UK is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. As an FCA-regulated firm, offers are subject to background screening.