Product Owner, Vitesse
US Market Claims Experience, Fixed Term Contract
Tuesday - Thursday
2-3 days a week in office
Cross-border payment solutions
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Cross-border payment solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Tuesday - Thursday
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the treasury and payment provider of choice for the Insurance Market.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years’ experience in a B2B fintech, ideally with exposure to payment and treasury platforms in a Business Analyst, Product Owner or Product Manager role
- Knowledge of the US insurance claims market desirable but not a prerequisite
- Must be highly analytical, organized and structured
- Versatility with ability to act as PO across different domains/products preferable to be adaptable to future change
- Technical understanding of Agile development practices
- Excellent communicator. You should be a people person with a proven track record of establishing, building and maintaining strong, high value relationships
- Passion for scale-ups with a mentality to get your hands dirty. You will be expected to provide live feedback on improvements to existing product features as you gain an understanding and also improve processes and ways of working
- A team player, with the ability to relate well with co-workers, customers and partners and other stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to be proactive and self-driven
What the job involves
- In support of our newly formed US entity, we are seeking to accelerate our US Insurance market specific product development, with a focus on US insurance claims experience
- You will act as the Product Owner for this US market squad, responsible for shaping the mission and driving the squad to deliver against the vision
- You will work closely with internal subject matter experts including: Engineering, other product team members including BA and designers, Operations teams and Implementation
- This role will sit in the Product function, reporting into VP Product
- Own the product backlog for your assigned theme
- Create and manage all epics, features and stories related to the changes in question, whether customer specific or to deliver against strategic objectives
- Clearly document and communicate requirements to the development team by running refinement sessions with your assigned development resource
- Have a thorough understanding of the journey that needs to be taken to reach the ultimate end feature goal, creating incremental steps where possible to reach the end complete feature deliverable
- Analyse overall business impact across all relevant stakeholders and create a plan to implement necessary changes
- Understand any wider client impact of implementing any changes and devise a communication plan in conjunction with your colleagues in the product team
- Input to product documentation to assist successful roll out to help maximise utilization of new features
- Track success post implementation by measuring KPIs
- Support the business where necessary with subject matter expertise on the changes that have been implemented
- Work with your product colleagues to ensure changes are coherent and consistent with a broader value proposition and bring as much benefit to as much of our client base and target market as possible
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Vitesse PSP is a payment business providing global payment services to a range of businesses. Operating on one of the largest domestic banking and payment networks in the world, Vitesse gives its customers direct access to over 170 countries' domestic payment networks and processes over $6B in transactions.
It's focused on serving customers in the insurance market by providing improved liquidity management and faster claims settlement. Insurance is the largest market in terms of revenue, as well as the fastest growing, and as a result of Vitesse's success in the Lloyds of London market, the company has established itself as an industry leader.
Having closed a successful funding round, the company aims to double its revenue in the coming years whilst also focusing on growing its team across London and Rotterdam, and establishing a presence within the US market.
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back within 2 weeks
36% female employees
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$93m
SERIES C
Feb 2022
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.3m
Company benefits
- Enhanced parental leave
- Sabbatical after 5 years' service
- 25 days holiday per year and bank holidays
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Contributory pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Private medical insurance with AXA
- Free access to Oliva our Mental Health Therapy partners
- Financial coaching with Octopus Wealth
Company values
- CONFIDENT HUMILITY - We don't do ego and we know that unless we all win, none of us win. We admit when we're wrong, we ask for help and always think about the wider business before ourselves
- DRIVEN TO SUCCEED - We see the opportunity ahead of us and we won't stop until we fulfil the potential we know we have. We hold ourselves to high standards and deliver high quality outcomes for Vitesse and our Customers
- TENACIOUS RESPONSIBILITY - We take ownership for our actions and decisions, and face into the challenges that come our way. We are committed to seeing things through to completion, even in the face of adversity
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
Paul Townsend
(Chairman)Experienced in banking having previously worked for Barclays, Bank of New York, Earthport, and Neteller. Also founded the global payment service, Envoy Services.
Phillip McGriskin
(CEO)An experienced CPO having worked for Worldpay. Was also the Founder and CEO of Envoy Services.
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