Company description:

ClearCourse

Job description:

Product Owner - Payments

Location: Hybrid (London, Manchester, or Maidenhead)Role Type: Full-time, Permanent

ClearAccept - our in-house payments platform - powers seamless transactions across 30+ software businesses within the ClearCourse group. We're now looking for an experienced Product Owner to lead the next evolution of our payments product suite.

This is a hands-on role with broad scope, covering everything from payment acceptance through to reconciliation, funding, and fee generation. You'll work closely with internal teams and third-party partners to shape and deliver a roadmap that's both technically robust and commercially impactful.

What You'll Be Doing:

You'll take end-to-end ownership of the product roadmap, acting as the bridge between commercial ambition and technical delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining short, medium, and long-term product roadmaps, based on business cases and customer needs
  
• Collaborating with internal teams, ISV stakeholders, and partners to prioritise and refine features
  
• Writing clear, detailed epics and user stories for delivery by agile development teams
  
• Leading and participating in agile ceremonies (refinement, demos, scrum of scrums, etc.)
  
• Coordinating with technology and operational teams to gather non-functional and operational requirements
  
• Supporting go-to-market activity with documentation and value-based messaging for commercial teams
  
• Engaging directly with internal customers during initial adoption and integration
  
• Keeping competitor analysis and positioning documents up to date
  

• Strong knowledge of how card payments work and the role of gateways/acquirers
  
• Experience owning API-based products in an agile software environment
  
• Ability to write and communicate detailed user stories, roadmaps, and business cases
  
• Strong stakeholder skills - across both technical and non-technical audiences
  
• A proactive, self-starting mindset with sharp attention to detail
  

• Experience working at a payments gateway, acquirer or payfac
  
• Familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence or LaunchDarkly
  
• Knowledge of feature flagging and product rollout strategies
  

• Hybrid working model with UK office flexibility
  
• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off
  
• Volunteering days
  
• Private medical cover & cash plan
  
• Enhanced company pension
  
• Life Assurance & Group Income Protection
  
• Employee wellbeing perks (e.g. Calm app, gym discounts, cycle-to-work)
  
• Retail discounts & Employee Assistance Programme