Product Owner - Acquitech
Job description
Product Owner for the Acquitech team, owning the roadmap for iwoca's acquisition data, technology and models. The role turns requests from marketing and sales into well-scoped work and leads delivery and discovery for the team.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · United Kingdom
- Pay
- GBP 50,000 – 70,000 / year
What you'll do
- Own priorities across Acquitech's work, writing clear requirements and seeing them through to release
- Set direction with the Head of Direct Acquisition and the channel leads who depend on the team
- Lead the team's work on conversion tracking, custom audiences and API migrations
- Own the product change documentation that comes with tracking and ad platform integrations, working through Compliance, Data Privacy and Legal
- Run discovery work to find new opportunities, using AI to prototype and test ideas quickly, and bring findings back to the wider business, for example through weekly learning sessions
- Run the team's rhythms – stand-ups, retros and monthly reviews – and set clear quarterly goals
- Become the go-to person for Acquitech systems and processes
- Use AI to multiply what a small team can deliver, from prototyping ideas to automating workflows for the team and its stakeholders
What we're looking for
- Product ownership: worked in a product role, managing several projects end to end – writing requirements, owning priorities and being accountable for results
- Data literacy: use data to diagnose problems, size opportunities and evaluate whether a release delivered what was hoped
- Technical fluency: can discuss trade-offs with engineers around APIs, tracking pipelines and data flows, and follow the argument without needing everything translated
- Communication: write and speak clearly, adapting technical detail for commercial colleagues and commercial context for engineers
- Leadership: comfortable running stand-ups and retros, setting quarterly goals and keeping priorities clear
- AI leverage: built AI workflows, or used AI to produce specs, analysis or prototypes beyond what could be delivered alone, and judge when to use it and when not to
Nice to have
- Marketing technology: worked with tools such as Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads or Meta Ads, or on conversion tracking and attribution
- Analytics tools: used Looker, Amplitude or a similar analytics platform to build or maintain reporting
- Data pipelines: understand ETL concepts or database architecture
- Data science collaboration: worked alongside data scientists or contributed to a modelling project
- Regulated products: worked in fintech, lending or another regulated product area
Your team
Acquitech
Builds and maintains the data infrastructure behind iwoca's direct acquisition channels, covering tracking and attribution, customer value prediction, the data layer, and team tooling and automation. The team is small – three engineers, two data scientists and you – with the senior engineer sharing the day-to-day leadership; you'll report to a Senior Product Owner in an adjacent team.
Benefits
25 days' holiday per year, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave
Instant access to external counselling and therapy sessions for team members that need emotional or mental health support
- Flexible working hours
- Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
- A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents
- A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years
- 3% pension contributions on total earnings
- An employee equity incentive scheme
- Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money
- Electric car scheme and cycle to work scheme
- Two company retreats a year
- A learning and development budget for everyone
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
- Access to learning platforms like Treehouse
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About iwoca
Finance that's as flexible and responsive as SMEs are
iwoca provides finance to small businesses, using smart technology, data science and five-star service so business owners can act with the speed, confidence and control they need. It has cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with more than £5 billion in funding.
Mission
To support one million SMEs in their defining moments, creating lasting impact for the communities and economies they power.
Key facts
- Cleared the way for 100,000 businesses with more than £5 billion in funding
- Offices in London, Leeds, Berlin, and Frankfurt
- Believes in the power of AI and provides infrastructure where every team member has access to the best models
What they value
- The best idea wins
- Independent thinking
- Challenging untested logic
- Evidence-based decisions
- Learning and growth
- Autonomy