About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements
- Applicants must be UK-based and have full, current right to work status.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or in an equivalent role delivering digital products or services.
- Ability to take initiative, work independently, find necessary information, and maintain momentum without waiting for direction.
- Ability to learn new domains quickly, ask insightful questions, and become a credible product leader in an unfamiliar sector.
- Experience leading or working within a small product team, ideally in a greenfield, zero-to-one, or early-stage product environment.
- Strong discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem framing, opportunity sizing, prototyping, and validation.
- Ability to turn complex requirements into a clear, prioritised backlog and actionable delivery plan.
- Comfort working with engineers, designers, and data specialists, with enough technical fluency to discuss APIs, integrations, data, security, and platform constraints.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to align people with different priorities and levels of product experience.
- Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach that balances speed, quality, risk, and long-term product value.
- Experience using product analytics and experimentation to inform decisions.
- Comfort working with ambiguity and making progress without a fully defined blueprint.
- Knowledge of the UK property, letting, rental, or proptech sectors is useful but not essential.
- Experience establishing product ways of working in a new team or business area is useful but not essential.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a new product from concept through launch.
- Take ownership with minimal direction: identify next steps, unblock yourself and the team, and make sensible decisions in ambiguous situations.
- Lead discovery with landlords, letting agents, operations, risk, legal, and commercial stakeholders to identify customer problems and validate solutions.
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring the team delivers a coherent, high-quality product increment by increment.
- Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements for engineers and designers.
- Run regular refinement, planning, review, and retrospective sessions with the product team.
- Use qualitative research, analytics, experimentation, and operational feedback to make evidence-based product decisions.
- Partner with AI researchers, engineers, designers, and operations to deliver a secure, scalable, and compliant experience.
- Define and track success metrics, including adoption, conversion, activation, retention, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and commercial impact.
- Manage trade-offs across customer value, business value, risk, regulatory requirements, and delivery capacity.
- Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to the Head of Product and wider business stakeholders.
- Help establish strong product practices as the new product and team scale.
Technologies
- AI
- Product Manager
- Product Owner
- Security
- Support
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We are RentGuarantor, founded in 2018, providing a professional rent guarantee service that helps tenants secure homes when they cannot provide a suitable personal guarantor, protects landlords rental income, and supports letting agents throughout tenancies. We serve tenants, landlords, agents, and institutions across the UK private rented sector. We are building a new product and technology solution from the ground up, working closely with our RG Labs AI/ML team, led by Professor Dave Cliff. This full-time, permanent Product Owner role reports to our Head of Product and is based at our new Bristol office, with a hybrid working model and substantial autonomy, supported by an established business with deep sector experience.
We offer the opportunity to lead a new product from inception, shape a small team and product culture, and influence product strategy through direct access to senior leadership. The annual salary is £50,000–£60,000. Benefits include additional leave, casual dress, a company pension, an employee stock purchase plan, an on-site gym, and work-from-home options. The stated work location is in person.
last updated 45 week of 2026