Product Owner, Platform

TITLE: Product Owner, Platform

DEPARTMENT: Product

REPORTING TO: Director, Product Management

OFFICE LOCATION: London, UK

ROLE TYPE: Hybrid, Full-time

IPC is a global fintech company that puts people at the center of innovation. With a strong global footprint, we empower financial institutions and capital markets with advanced cloud-based trading communications and managed connectivity solutions.

Through our portfolio of communications and connectivity solutions, we focus on solving business challenges and adapting to regulatory changes in the fast-paced global financial markets. This enables our clients to maintain consistent market access, a strong competitive advantage, and enhanced operational efficiency.

Join a team that is dedicated to delivering groundbreaking products and making a significant impact on our clients' success.

www.IPC.com

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Overview of the Team

The team consists of three Product Owners reporting to the Director of Product Management based in Paris, France. This role will work closely with global stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams, supporting a highly collaborative and distributed operating model.

Role Overview:

The Product Owner, Platform will own and prioritize the platform roadmap that enables the successful delivery of IPC's strategic product portfolio. Acting as the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams, this role will translate platform strategy into actionable product requirements and measurable outcomes.

The successful candidate will work closely with distributed engineering teams, architects, and operational stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities that improve reliability, scalability, security, and speed of innovation. This role requires strong product ownership skills, technical fluency, and the ability to balance customer, business, and engineering priorities in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the platform product backlog to ensure alignment with business priorities and strategic objectives.
• Define and communicate product requirements, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that enable successful execution.
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to prioritize platform investments that improve scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate strategic initiatives into platform capabilities.
• Drive roadmap planning and release prioritization based on business value, customer impact, and technical dependencies.
• Analyze platform performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Support delivery teams throughout the Agile development lifecycle, ensuring requirements are clear and actionable.
• Work closely with Security, Compliance, and Operations teams to support platform governance and risk-management objectives.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment across multiple functions and geographies.
• Contribute to the evolution of platform standards, best practices, and product management disciplines.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Accelerate delivery of strategic platform capabilities that support IPC's product portfolio.
• Improve engineering efficiency through clear prioritization and well-defined requirements.
• Drive enhancements in platform reliability, scalability, availability, and operational excellence.
• Enable faster product innovation through reusable platform services and capabilities.
• Improve stakeholder satisfaction through transparent roadmap planning and execution.
• Support the continued modernization of IPC's technology ecosystem.
• Contribute to measurable improvements in platform adoption, quality, and business outcomes.

Essential Skills and Experience to be Successful in this Role:

• 2-5 years of experience in Product Ownership, Product Management, or a related platform-focused role.
• Proven experience managing product backlogs and delivering products within Agile and Scrum environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, platform services, APIs, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering and architecture teams on technical products.
• Ability to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable product outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience prioritizing competing initiatives and managing dependencies across multiple teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in fintech, capital markets, financial services, SaaS, or regulated technology environments.
• Knowledge of cloud-native architectures and platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with observability, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform engineering concepts.
• Familiarity with trading communications, connectivity services, or mission-critical enterprise platforms.
• Experience with API platforms, developer platforms, or integration ecosystems.
• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), or similar certification.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Understanding of regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to financial markets.

What’s in It for You?

At IPC, your compensation is only part of the package. We are committed to investing in a range of programs and initiatives to improve the overall experience of our employees.

In addition to a collaborative, high-performing team environment, we’re pleased to offer benefits including:

• Competitive Base Salaries
• Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance and Optical Reimbursement
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• 25 Holidays per Year Plus Public Holidays
• Additional Time off for Charity Work and Volunteering
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Certification Bonus Program
• Access to “IPC University” our Internal E-Learning Platform
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Wellness Program
• Fitness Membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Employee Referral Scheme

Further information about your benefits will be provided during your onboarding process.

Additional Information:

At IPC, we believe that hybrid working creates an inclusive, flexible environment where employees can perform at their best, and teams can collaborate, innovate, and celebrate successes together. We spend around 60% of our time in the office and around 40% of our time working remotely. Some employees may be required to work from the office or client sites more than 60% of the time, if required by their role and/or client needs.

Your precise work schedule will be determined by you and your Line Manager before commencement of employment with IPC.

You can explore more about our culture, offerings and commitment on www.ipc.com/careers/ and www.ipc.com/about-us/about-ipc/.

IPC’s Work Culture:

The IPC work culture is one that fosters inclusion, prioritizes innovation, and maximizes potential. We are a global ecosystem, full of diverse people that together made IPC what it is today.

Our strength as an organization is the sum of our different backgrounds, perspectives, skills and geographies; supported by an ironclad commitment to constructive dialogue and open-mindedness.

We live and breathe our commitment to innovation by embracing bold ideas, seizing new opportunities and striving for excellence. Our people have continued to deliver ground-breaking solutions to our clients for over 50 years