Product Owner - UK

About StarCompliance

StarCompliance is a high-growth software-as-a-service company that helps financial services firms manage employee and firm compliance on one connected platform. More than 500 clients, including asset managers, broker-dealers, private equity firms and banks, rely on us, and we operate globally.

Our accounting team gives leaders accurate, insightful information that guides their decisions. We are early adopters of AI, using it to automate tasks and reconciliations and exploring how it can improve our reporting and analysis.

Product Owner

Role

The Product Owner drives the development and delivery of high-value capabilities within StarCompliance Enterprise SaaS platform, turning customer needs and product strategy into measurable outcomes.

Hands-on use of AI is central to this role. You will use AI throughout discovery, prototyping, requirements, delivery, testing, and post-launch analysis to accelerate learning, reduce manual effort, and deliver better products faster.

You will join a well-established Product Owners community, sharing knowledge and improving practices. You will work closely with Engineering, Customer Success, and commercial teams across multiple geographies, operating with significant autonomy over assigned product areas.

Responsibilities

• Own features and functional areas from discovery through launch and continuous improvement, aligning priorities with customer value and product strategy.

• Lead customer interviews and stakeholder workshops, using AI to synthesize research, identify opportunities, and validate assumptions against evidence.

• Create prototypes using AI-assisted tools to explore solutions, gather feedback, and assess feasibility with Engineering.

  • Produce clear specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria, using AI to accelerate drafting and identify business rules, dependencies, and edge cases.

  • Prioritize the backlog, guide refinement, and provide timely product decisions to support effective delivery.

  • Maintain and prioritize the Product Suggestion backlog and triage Tier 3 (T3) escalated Service Desk tickets, working with Engineering and Customer Success to assess customer impact, coordinate resolution, and inform product improvements.

  • Prepare release documentation and internal enablement materials, and coordinate launch readiness with relevant teams.

  • Analyze adoption, customer feedback, and delivery performance to guide improvements and demonstrate the impact of AI on speed, quality, and outcomes.

  • Contribute reusable AI workflows and effective delivery practices to the Product Owners community, and support roadmap refinement and capacity planning.

Skills and Experience

• Five or more years of product management or product ownership experience in SaaS, enterprise software, or regtech, with successful delivery of complex capabilities. Experience in financial services compliance is desirable.

• Demonstrated use of AI across the product lifecycle, with concrete examples of improved delivery speed, quality, or customer outcomes.

• Ability to create working prototypes with AI-assisted tools and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

• Experience managing change and building organizational readiness for new capabilities and ways of working, including stakeholder alignment, communication, enablement, and adoption.

• Strong discovery, prioritization, requirements analysis, and agile delivery skills.

• Technical fluency to discuss APIs, integrations, data flows, and implementation trade-offs with Engineering.

• Strong analytical, communication, and facilitation skills, with the ability to work independently across teams and geographies.

Experience in financial services compliance, regulated workflows, or AI-enabled product capabilities is desirable.

Integrity and Ethics

All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner.