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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Product Owner - **Company:** Starrez - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Scrum Methodology - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/product-owner-college-pads-starrez-company-10181467 ## About the Role * 2+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Analyst, or similar role, with strong backlog management, prioritization, and the ability to translate product direction into clear, actionable requirements * Experience working across multiple markets or regions, with an understanding of how customer needs, market differences, release considerations, and stakeholder expectations can influence product delivery * Experience across B2B and B2C products, or within a B2B2C or other multi-sided product environment * Experience working directly with customers or users to validate needs, test solutions, and incorporate feedback into product decisions * Experience partnering closely with Engineering and Design to shape solutions, navigate constraints, and make informed trade-offs * Demonstrated use of AI to improve aspects of the product development lifecycle * Clear and confident communication with internal and external stakeholders * Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams, * Experience with marketplace, listings, PropTech, ILS-style, or other multi-sided products * Understanding of integrations, ecosystem dependencies, and how a marketplace or platform creates value and monetizes * Background in scale-ups or high-growth environments ## Description StarRez is seeking a Product Owner based out of the UK to join the College Pads team. This is not a typical Product Owner role. You'll help evolve a high visibility, customer-facing platform, partnering closely with cross-functional teams across the UK, US, and India. You'll translate product direction into high-quality delivery, owning the backlog, driving day-to-day execution, and helping the team make sound trade-offs across customer value, business impact, speed, scope, and risk. You'll operate in a fast-moving, AI-first environment, and play an active role in validating solutions with customers and stakeholders across markets., * Own product delivery: Translate product direction into clear, actionable work and own backlog refinement, sprint planning, day-to-day execution, and release readiness. * Turn strategy into shipped product: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design to break priorities into deliverable increments and make clear trade-offs across customer value, business impact, speed, scope, and risk. * Validate with customers: Work with universities, students, and internal stakeholders to test solutions, gather feedback, and incorporate insights into product decisions. * Drive measurable outcomes: Keep the team focused on improvements to acquisition, conversion, engagement, and business outcomes rather than simply delivering features. * Operate AI-first: Use AI to improve requirements, acceptance criteria, scenario planning, prototyping, research synthesis, and product collaboration. * Enable effective multi-market delivery: Work across UK, US, and India teams while accounting for customer, market, release, and communication differences., * Opportunity to be a part of a well-established, high-performance company that has been in business for over 30+ years * A supportive team environment with emphasis on learning and development opportunities * Our Promise: You will learn, grow, and be appreciated for your impact and contributions. * Z-Factor: Our most celebrated value, you will work with a team of caring, high-performing, and passionate people who have fun supporting our vision, innovation, and continuous improvement. ## Related Videos - [User 1st! 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