Product Owner

Company description:

ClearCourse

Job description:

Product Owner – Payments

Location: Hybrid (London, Manchester, or Maidenhead)Role Type: Full-time, Permanent

ClearAccept – our in-house payments platform – powers seamless transactions across 30+ software businesses within the ClearCourse group. We're now looking for an experienced Product Owner to lead the next evolution of our payments product suite.

This is a hands-on role with broad scope, covering everything from payment acceptance through to reconciliation, funding, and fee generation. You'll work closely with internal teams and third-party partners to shape and deliver a roadmap that’s both technically robust and commercially impactful.

What You’ll Be Doing:

You’ll take end-to-end ownership of the product roadmap, acting as the bridge between commercial ambition and technical delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Defining short, medium, and long-term product roadmaps, based on business cases and customer needs

• Collaborating with internal teams, ISV stakeholders, and partners to prioritise and refine features

• Writing clear, detailed epics and user stories for delivery by agile development teams

• Leading and participating in agile ceremonies (refinement, demos, scrum of scrums, etc.)

• Coordinating with technology and operational teams to gather non-functional and operational requirements

• Supporting go-to-market activity with documentation and value-based messaging for commercial teams

• Engaging directly with internal customers during initial adoption and integration

• Keeping competitor analysis and positioning documents up to date

What We’re Looking For:

You’re a technically savvy product owner with a strong understanding of payments – and the drive to build products that make a difference.

You’ll need:

• Strong knowledge of how card payments work and the role of gateways/acquirers

• Experience owning API-based products in an agile software environment

• Ability to write and communicate detailed user stories, roadmaps, and business cases

• Strong stakeholder skills – across both technical and non-technical audiences

• A proactive, self-starting mindset with sharp attention to detail

Bonus points for:

• Experience working at a payments gateway, acquirer or payfac

• Familiarity with tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence or LaunchDarkly

• Knowledge of feature flagging and product rollout strategies

Why ClearCourse?

We’re a fast-growing group of software and payments companies, backed by private equity and united by a common tech framework and culture. At ClearAccept, you’ll be part of a core product team building the infrastructure that underpins growth across our group.

You’ll also get:

• Hybrid working model with UK office flexibility

• 25 days annual leave + your birthday off

• Volunteering days

• Private medical cover & cash plan

• Enhanced company pension

• Life Assurance & Group Income Protection

• Employee wellbeing perks (e.g. Calm app, gym discounts, cycle-to-work)

• Retail discounts & Employee Assistance Programme

Join us and help shape the future of integrated payments – in a role where you’ll see real impact from day one.