Archax is an FCA-regulated exchange, broker and custodian for digital assets, targeted at professional and institutional clients. Our services cover all types of digital assets – from cryptocurrencies to NFTs to digital securities – as well as traditional financial instruments too. Our vision is to develop a truly digital capital markets ecosystem that bridges traditional and crypto markets, leveraging tokenisation and blockchain/DLT/Web3.0 technologies.

*** This is an office based role, you must be able to commute to and work in the City of London as a norm***

Product Owner– reporting to Product Manager

• Collaborate with the UK based project team and stakeholders to help define and manage the product
• Oversee the delivery of the product, working with the Solutions Architects to ensure that the teams are resourced effectively and have the appropriate skills, processes, and tools to manage risks and deliver to agreed success criteria and timelines
• Elicit requirements from the business to identify future epics and user stories
• Work with business analysts to define user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work with design team to create prototypes
• Attend review and planning meetings with the development and QA teams to discuss product deliverables
• Develop a strong partnership with the Solutions Architect to deliver high quality products, features, enhancements, and fixes at pace
• Ensure the right balance is struck between developing new features, resolving technical debt and fixing defects
• Provide support and training to operations for new functions
• Stakeholder engagement and project reporting to ensure that expectations and risks are managed effectively
• Have a flexible mindset to assume any role to get a job done

• You operate at a strategic level, but are hands-on and roll up your sleeves in day-to-day work (writing detailed requirements, internal documentation or investigating the technical nature of issues)
• You have the skills, knowledge, and technical background to gain the respect of both Product Management and Engineering teams
• You have the gravitas to influence stakeholders and inspire your team
• You are a team player and able to work well across the organisation
• You have previously led Product teams in a fast-paced financial environment
• You are entrepreneurial and have a positive ‘get it done’ attitude
• You are commercially aware, and customer focused
• Experience with capital markets and trading software
• Seeks and values data in decision making
• Highly analytical, flexible and a creative problem solver
• Strong knowledge and experience of product development and management principles, Agile methodologies, user-based testing, UX and IA
• Knowledge of the Atlassian suite and how to use it most effectively to drive and enhance management of processes

• Execution Management Systems
• Order Management Systems
• Portfolio Management Systems
• Knowledge of market data platforms and real time systems
• Blockchain
• Crypto and Digital Assets

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Discretionary bonus.
• Company pension scheme.
• Comprehensive private healthcare scheme.
• Death in service benefit.
• 25 days holiday. Increasing by one day each year up to 30 days.
• Extra day’s holiday for birthday.
• Being part of an entrepreneurial, exciting, fast-growing, and future thinking company.
• Opportunities to attend events representing Archax and its vision.
• Encouragement and support in your personal career development and industry knowledge.