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About the Role
Lead and develop a Product Development team working across multiple digital feature teams, turning product strategy and customer needs into high-quality digital products and experiences. Provide clarity, establish effective practices, and ensure work is ready for successful delivery by collaborating with Product, UX, and Technology teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and support a Product Development team across multiple agile feature teams.
- Create clear ownership and help colleagues develop necessary capabilities and ways of working.
- Set and maintain high standards for product definition, requirements, refinement, and Definition of Ready.
- Ensure work is clearly understood before development, identifying customer, business, technical, regulatory, and operational considerations.
- Support teams in resolving ambiguity, managing dependencies, and unblocking decisions.
- Translate product strategy, customer needs, and business objectives into clear, deliverable outcomes with Product Managers.
- Ensure customer insight, design, technical constraints, APIs, architecture, and dependencies inform product decisions.
- Facilitate constructive challenge and decision-making across multidisciplinary teams.
- Build strong relationships across Product Development and the wider business, influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Ensure priorities, decisions, and outcomes are clearly communicated and understood.
- Align product development activity with wider programme plans, dependencies, and delivery commitments with Project Management.
Requirements
- Significant experience within product development, product ownership, digital delivery, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of how digital products move from strategy and customer need through definition, refinement, and delivery.
- Experience leading or working across multiple agile feature teams.
- Strong experience working across Product, UX, and Technology in a multidisciplinary digital environment.
- A track record of defining, refining, and delivering requirements for digital products.
- Experience coaching or leading Product Owners, Business Analysts, Product Development Analysts, or similar roles.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Ability to bring together different perspectives and drive decisions.
- Ability to operate comfortably at both a strategic level and in the detail.
- A collaborative leadership style with the confidence to challenge constructively and create clarity in complex environments.
- Experience delivering consumer-facing digital products or applications is valuable.
- Experience within financial services or another regulated environment is beneficial.
- Experience working with APIs, digital channels, complex technology ecosystems, transformation, or platform programmes is beneficial.
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- GBP 70000 - GBP 85000
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, increasing with service + buy/sell scheme + bank holidays
- 8% Pension with matched contributions
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Share schemes (including free shares and BAYE)
- Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
- Free gym
- Enhanced family leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
- Travel and bike loan schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
- Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
- Casual dress code
- Friendly, supportive team environment
About the Company
- AJ Bell believes investing should feel good, offering easy-to-use solutions for ISAs, pensions, and dealing accounts.
- One of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by financial advisers and first-time investors.
- Manages over £121.5 billion of assets for more than 762,000 customers.
- Strives to make investing simpler and more accessible, helping people control their financial futures.
- Recognised as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years.
- A Great Place to Work® in 2025 and 2026, reflecting a supportive and collaborative culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to be themselves at work.
- Welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience, and potential.