Modern Start-Up Product Owner

Job Description

Toucanberry Tech is a UK-based boutique software consultancy delivering high-impact solutions to the financial sector.

You’ll be joining a pivotal project, building a cutting-edge reinsurance platform from the ground up for a global reinsurer in Bermuda.

ROLE:

We are looking for a hungry and hands-on Product Owner to join our dedicated onshore team. This is not a project management role; we need a modern start up Product Owner who lives and breathes the product, sits side-by-side with our developers, and is passionate about building exceptional backend, data-centric solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the product backlog, translating high-level business requirements into clear, actionable user stories for the development team.
• Collaborate daily with a co-located, onshore squad of engineers, QAs, and designers to ensure seamless delivery and a shared understanding of the product vision.
• Define and analyse metrics to inform the success of the product, using a data-driven approach to guide your decisions.
• Lead product discovery, roadmap planning, and stakeholder management sessions, ensuring alignment between technical execution and business goals.
• Become the subject matter expert for a complex, data-heavy platform, focusing on backend functionality, data flows, and API integrations.
• Champion an iterative, feedback-driven culture, continuously refining the product to deliver maximum value.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience as a Product Owner in your last two consecutive roles.
• Proven, hands-on experience working directly and exclusively with onshore/co-located development teams.
• Strong technical background with significant experience in data-heavy environments. 
• Comfortable with concepts like data stacks, data platforms, API development, and backend architecture.
• Experience working on products with a focus on backend functionality and complex data flows, rather than purely front-end, high-user-volume applications.
• A "modern start-up PO" mindset: you are deeply involved in the 'what' and 'why', and you are used to sitting with developers to solve problems.
• An entrepreneurial approach; perhaps you’ve helped build an MVP, secured funding, or worked in a role where you had to justify product value with clear commercial outcomes.
• A willingness to get "stuck in" – you are proactive, a problem-solver, and ready to tackle challenges head-on.
• Must have worked closely with onsite developers

Desirable Attributes:

• Experience in a technical role (e.g., Software Developer, Data Analyst) before transitioning into product ownership.
• Experience within the financial services or insurance/reinsurance sectors.
• Familiarity with conceptualising and delivering platforms that integrate with third-party systems (e.g., CRMs, payment providers).

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• Outside IR35
• Long term contract
• £500/Day