Product Lead- Financial Services

We put people first. Its all about you

The Product Lead for Financial Services is the single-threaded owner for Cashback and Insurance at UW. You will accountable for setting product direction owning outcomes and leading multiple squads and PMs across a regulated commercially critical domain that directly impacts acquisition retention and customer lifetime value.

The focus of the role is to make UWs Financial Services products easy to understand easy to buy and easy to scale while ensuring compliance-by-design and strong integration with UWs broader multi-service propositions.

This is a portfolio-level leadership role: bridging company strategy and execution shaping long-term direction and ensuring teams consistently deliver meaningful business outcomes

We work together. Your team and the people you will work with

Reporting to VP Product this role will manage a squad of 3-5 Product Managers whilst collaborating closely with engineering leadership and commercial stakeholders.

We deliver progress. What youll do and how you will make an impact.

• Own the Vision & Strategy: You will define and drive the product strategy for our Cashback card and Insurance pillars translating high-level company goals into bold product bets that deliver undeniable customer value and commercial growth.
• Champion Commercial Impact: Take full accountability for critical outcomesincluding conversion revenue and LTV. Youll ruthlessly prioritize to maximize ROI making smart trade-offs between growth regulation and technical investment.
• Architect Game-Changing Propositions: Design and evolve bundling and cross-sell strategies that build trust and drive retention. Youll create a multi-year roadmap that anticipates market shifts and keeps us ahead of the curve.
• Empower & Elevate Talent: Lead coach and inspire a team of 35 Product Managers. You will set clear guardrails and foster a design-led culture where your team has the autonomy to execute with confidence.
• Unite Engineering & Stakeholders: Act as a strategic partner to Engineering Compliance and Commercial leads. You will serve as the senior product voice ensuring our architecture supports our strategy and that we deliver compliant by design products with seamless execution.

Possible Next Career Steps

• Head of Product

Qualifications :

What youll need to demonstrate to be successful in this role:

• Experience leading regulated financial or insurance digital product development
• Strong commercial and customer judgement.
• Comfortable operating in an OKR-led empowered product model.
• Proven ability to work across compliance-heavy environments without slowing delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Be comfortable collaborating with teams across product & design data marketing engineering commercial & operations.
• Have hands-on experience with agile software development
• Experience in financial services desirable not essential
• Have experience and passion for analysing data and user experience

Additional Information :

So why pick UW

Weve got big ambitions so theres going to be plenty of challenges. There are also a lot of benefits:

• An industry-benchmarked salary. Well share it during your first conversation.
• Share Options and Save as You Earn scheme.
• Flexible working remote-first with access to hot desks across the UK and a central London hub.
• Work-from-anywhere policy for up to 2 weeks per year.
• Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker
• Discounts on our services and a free Cashback Card.
• Matched-contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x salary.
• Family-friendly policies designed to help you and your family thrive.
• Discounted private health insurance Employee Assistance line and free Virtual GP.
• Belonging groups helping shape an inclusive future.
• A commitment to learning and progression through our Career Development Framework with regular review and promotion cycles.

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Claire Fennell will be your point of contact throughout the recruitment process.

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We provide equal opportunities a diverse and inclusive work environment and fairness for everyone. You are welcome to apply no matter your age disability gender marriage or civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity status race religion or belief or sexual orientation. Please dont be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs. All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.

Please note if you are successful and offered a role at UW you will be subject to a background check. Where checks are unsatisfactory or incomplete and/or a failure to reveal information relating to convictions that you are required to identify as part of the background checks could lead to withdrawal of an offer of employment.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time