Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

We’re looking for a Senior Lead - Agile Product Owner in our ever-evolving Global Developer Experience and API Product team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About the team

Our Product and Technology teams are the Worldpayers behind the game-changing products and digital experiences we’re best known for. Striving for better, they never stand still — delivering impactful innovations that power transactions across the world.

 At Worldpay, we are on a mission to modernize our technology and supercharge developers with APIs that are simple to integrate yet powerful. The Developer Experience and API Product team owns the vision for how we empower developers with innovative tools, products, and delightful self-service experiences.

Our team builds the API Platform and developer tools that enable Worldpay’s integrations across the world. This team plays a pivotal role in Worldpay, focusing on our API products and end-to-end user journeys in our developer portals. This team’s priority is to drive the strategy that enables Worldpay to deliver world-class experiences at every customer touchpoint. Because this team unifies capabilities across the product portfolio, this is a highly collaborative team that works closely with stakeholders across the organization as well as internal teams such as other Product leaders, UX, engineering, architecture, operations, sales, and marketing. While our PM team is primarily based in USA, and you will closely collaborate with them with some overlap, much of our engineering team is based in India across multiple locations and we have team members in London and virtually in multiple time zones in the US.

What you’ll own

Worldpay powers the technology behind some of the most innovative companies in the world and is known as the leading provider in the industry. As the Technical Product Owner for the API platform, you will be responsible for various cross domain activities related to building and supporting APIs and/or developer user-facing applications, and any partner relationships we leverage to deliver these experiences to our developer community. You will work closely with the API Center for Enablement team that will be responsible for building developer tools, automation frameworks and other assets for Worldpay API governance. You will also work with other Product Managers/Product Owners on the team to help with Product delivery, support, governance and go to market functions as needed. You will work closely engineers, architects, system analysts, and other stakeholders to help execute the product vision for our product area. The ideal candidate is an experienced Product Owner with real-world experience working with APIs and developer tools.

The Product Owner will be a product champion, a great team player who works with encouraging approach with cross functional teams. Curious, motivated, forward-thinking can-do attitude could join the team.

• Understands product strategy, market, industry, and client goals.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Support the API Platform and Developer Experience product team analyze needs of the consuming applications to understand and articulate API needs.
• Works with architecture and engineering leads to design and build scalable products.
• Drive and participate in the product governance initiatives.
• Ability to review API specs and provide feedback.
• Understands and advocates API Best Practices for all API products.
• Creates product documentation and helps guide technical writers/analysts.
• Trains internal employees or external clients on changes, new systems, or new procedures.
• Participate in Product Support and maintenance activities along with operations teams.
• Define user stories, create Sprint Release Plans with scrum master, project managers & development teams in alignment with priorities defined by the Product Managers.
• Reviews and provides feedback on test plans to ensure application changes meet acceptance criteria.
• Work closely under the guidance of the Product Managers and architecture to establish governance framework and launch developer tools to make it a quick automated process

What you bring

• 7+ years of experience in software product development, specifically with technical products like APIs as a Product Manager, Product owner, business analyst, or equivalent role.
• Understanding of API Technologies (e.g.: Open API 3.0, REST/JSON and SOAP/XML, API tools)
• Understanding of agile methodologies, e.g. Scrum, SAFe, with competence to write concise user stories to communicate with the Engineering teams and to ensure feasibility.
• Strong team player, comfortable collaborating with and coordinating the efforts of cross-functional colleagues.
• Highly self-motivated with a strong will to win, ability to take ownership and desire to drive for optimal business results.
• Ability to operate independently and effectively, under the supervision of Product Managers
• Ability to adapt to and embrace frequent change with a positive attitude.
• Ability to effectively prioritize competing priorities to meet business need.A self-starter with a can-do attitude who can operate with minimal direct/daily supervision.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience with APIs as a developer