Product Owner

Product Owner – Engagement – Job description

About Jaja

Jaja is a consumer finance business, launching its first product, a digital credit card, in 2018. Since then it has grown rapidly and has recently completed the acquisition of a multi-£000m credit card portfolio. With backing from several major Private Equity funds, Jaja has an ambitious growth strategy that includes providing consumer finance in partnership with leading consumer brands, with a number of partnerships secured alongside an exciting pipeline of opportunities.   

Jaja is on a mission to redefine the consumer finance experience and liberate customers from needless complexity, wasted time, and frustration. Or as we say it, Make Simple. We will delight our customers – making the customer experience simpler, more enjoyable, more intelligent – treating customers fairly and giving them more control of their money. 

Role details: 

The Jaja Product Owner will be responsible for the full end to end delivery of a strategic programme of work looking to move Jaja into its next phase of growth. You’ll be working day-to-day with the project team and other stakeholders ensuring the project remains on track. You’ll be co-ordinating our teams and third party providers working towards a new product launch. Experience managing third party providers in card-based organisation is key.

You will need to coordinate across complex dependencies to drive delivery of ideas whilst collaborating with all teams across Jaja to align plans, unblock development and communicate your project to colleagues and partners.

Key responsibilities:

• Coordinating with workstream leads across product, technology, finance and operations
• Manage third parties and ensure alignment of deliveries
• Own overall programme plan to track and report against
• Ensure senior stakeholders are kept up to date on latest programme progress
• Working to help teams resolve blockers to ensure they keep on track

Personal qualities 

• Innovative mindset 
• Tenacity to get the job done 
• Likes to collaborate 
• Self-motivated 
• Well organised 
• Analytical 
• Likes to get involved in the nitty gritty 
• Delivery orientated 
• Problem solver 
• Negotiator 

You should apply if 

• You have experience in Programme Management roles accountable for the delivery of a strategic programmes of work in a cards-based business.
• Programme experience managing departments across the whole organisation in order to align delivery.
• Experience managing third parties and incorporating their deliveries into the overall programme plan.
• You care deeply about helping customers manage their money smarter and want to make a tangible impact, in an outdated consumer finance industry, by applying technology and processes to make things simple 
• You are a reliable and structured professional who excels in a flat team structure where trust, integrity, and collaboration are the key foundation for everything, we do 
• You are comfortable using a direct language and speaking in a straightforward yet respectful manner to save peoples´ time and simplify everyone´s workday 
• You love rolling up your sleeves to get it done  
• What we’re doing at Jaja excites you! 

Culture 

Jaja are in the simplicity business and they are building a team who look at the world a little differently. People that look at the needlessly complicated and are bold enough to challenge convention. And brilliant enough to actually change it. 

What's in it for you?  

• The chance to make a real impact in a growing start-up on a mission to change the face of the consumer finance industry forever 
• Competitive salary  
• Pension  
• More exciting benefits you will hear about when we talk