Product Manager / Product Owner – Contract – Remote – Outside IR35
2 days ago
Leigh
Product Manager / Product Owner (Back Office) – Contract – Remote – Outside IR35 - £500 per day We’re hiring a Product Manager / Owner to support one of our highest-priority platform initiatives. This is a central commercial platform, not a front-end user experience role. You’ll be working in a data-heavy, API-led environment, shaping requirements that impact multiple internal teams and upstream/downstream systems. This is a hands-on execution role, supporting a product team that is approaching a key release. You’ll help turn business needs into clear, actionable delivery items and ensure the engineering team has everything required to move efficiently. What You’ll Do • Translate commercial and operational needs into structured product requirements, • Map data flows, upstream/downstream impacts, and system interactions, • Work closely with architects and senior engineers to clarify trade-offs and constraints, • Support backlog refinement, sprint readiness, and prioritisation, • Facilitate discovery and alignment sessions with stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams, • Document workflows and platform behaviours with clarity and consistency, • Challenge assumptions and highlight dependencies early to avoid delivery blockers, • Support testing and validation alongside Product and QA teams This role sits between Product, Engineering, and Commercial, ensuring clarity, alignment, and momentum. Must-Have Experience • Product Business Analyst or Product Owner experience in platform / internal tooling environments, • Strong experience working in API / data integration projects, • Ability to work with architects and discuss data models, system interactions, and work decomposition, • Excellent backlog writing, user stories, acceptance criteria, and refinement skills, • Comfortable navigating multi-system complexity, • Confident communicator who can work with senior stakeholders, including director/C-suite Nice-to-Have • Affiliate / iGaming / gaming industry experience, or similar performance-driven commercial platforms, • (The domain experience helps when working with commercial models, partner structures, and bonus/offer logic.), • Experience supporting the launch or scaling of internal commercial platforms, • Familiarity with Jira, Miro, Confluence, and other collaborative tools The Environment • Fast-paced, delivery-focused, highly cross-functional, • Expectation to act with initiative, clarity, and autonomy, • You’ll be stepping into a platform that is mid-launch, where precision and alignment are key