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We're looking for an experienced Product Owner to deliver an unparalleled trading experience for global CFD and spread betting traders, focusing on performance, scalability, and robust trading execution systems. 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.
Who We Are
We are Trade Nation. We help our customers power up their trading through killer insights, transparent costs, and fairer ways to trade. We’re innovators, proud of it, and have grown a lot in our decade as a market-leading low-cost trading powerhouse. Our reach is global through our teams in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Seychelles and The Bahamas. Founded on transparency, forged in trust and powered by people, we’re committed to empowering our customers to outperform the markets by minimising expenses and harnessing technology to prioritise the lowest trading costs.
Who You Are
You bring your own history to the table, finding solutions to daily challenges in a way that can’t be done by anyone else. Whether you talk a big game or not, the important thing is that you do what you say and follow through to help every customer thrive. You don’t play with the bumpers up; you break out of your lane to help others or forge your own path. Every problem is our problem and you see it as such. You know when to take calculated risks, are not afraid to try, fail, and then try harder, and we’ll give you all the support you need to thrive and grow with us at Trade Nation.
Our Commitments To Each Other
We have each other’s backs, we challenge each other to be more creative, curious, and bold, we thrive together and take our work to the next level, we form strong bonds through team building and social events, we don’t judge—instead we teach and are open to learning—and we step up by taking ownership and supporting each other.
Responsibilities
* Lead the delivery of our trading platform roadmap, enhancing the experience for global CFD and spread betting traders.
* 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 across the wider business community and strategy.
* Oversee release management with QA, SRE, and engineering 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.
* Experience building delightful trading experiences and understanding the underlying trading execution platform.
* Experience with trading products such as CFD, spread betting, sports betting, direct trading and investment products.
* Proficiency in discussing and understanding APIs, microservices, databases, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
* Knowledge of common architectural patterns and trade‑offs—including scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
* 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 adapting to the needs and capabilities of the business.
Preferred requirements
* Direct experience in the CFD, spread betting domain.
* Experience with API design (e.g., Swagger) and championing well‑defined, documented APIs.
* Experience working with hybrid, remote, in‑house, outsourced, and mixed‑capability development teams.
* Experience with tech stacks such as C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
Benefits
* Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus.
* Private healthcare.
* Life insurance, critical illness & income protection cover.
* Active lifestyle allowance.
* Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
* Allowance to work from any location up to 3 weeks per year.
* Fresh fruit delivered weekly.
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