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# Associate Product Owner

- **Company:** RS Group
- **Location:** Corby, UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Application Performance Management, Confluence, JIRA, Payment Service Provider, Scrum Methodology, SAP (Applications), Management of Software Versions, Adobe, Microservices
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://careers.rsgroup.com/talentcommunity/apply/1442920433/?locale=en_GB

## About the Role

* Some experience in a product management, delivery, or business analysis role
 * Understanding of Agile methodologies and delivery processes
 * Ability to use structured approaches to solve routine problems
 * Strong communication and organisational skills
 * Generally IT literate
 * Good sense of business acumen

Desirable Experience

 * Exposure to APIs or microservices
 * Basic knowledge of payments or e-commerce
 * Familiarity with Jira, Confluence or similar tools
 * Experience working with global, cross-regional IT teams.
 * Experience working with Payment Service Providers, acquirers, or using payments tools (e.g. Cybersource, Worldpay, SAP).
 * Experience working with Adobe Commerce

## Description

Reporting into the Payments Product Owner, you will support the delivery and continuous improvement of the Sales and Payments capabilities by working closely with other Product Owners, Engineering Teams, and Stakeholders to ensure well-defined, prioritised, and high-quality delivery of our services. You will work alongside the existing Digital Product Owner for Payments (part-time) sharing tasks and workload to drive through the digital change agenda. The Sales & Payments team uses the Scrum methodology to deliver software in an Agile way. Alongside the current Product Owner, you will help manage the backlog using business led prioritisation and contribute to the overall payment's roadmap.

This new role is a rare opportunity to develop your Product Ownership skills safely within an established Agile team, working alongside experienced Product Owners.

What You Will Be Doing

 * Support backlog management, prioritisation and Agile delivery activities
 * Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria and review delivered software against business requirements
 * Act as first point of contact for routine payment-related queries and resolve routine delivery issues
 * Apply knowledge of card payment processes (authorisation, settlement/capture, refunds) to support new and existing services
 * Ensure APIs follow defined standards, documentation and versioning approaches
 * Work with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, support delivery of the payment's roadmap and coordinate between Buy, CX, SAP & Finance teams
 * Communicate progress and updates clearly and share knowledge with wider team members
 * Support monitoring of API performance and payment success rates, identify issues and contribute to continuous improvement
 * Collaborate with internal and external colleagues for incident management, issue resolution and maintaining operational standards


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