THE ROLE 📝
This is an exciting opportunity for a Product Owner to join the US Product team within Form3. This role will act as a product expert for both internal teams and external stakeholders, driving continuous improvement and providing clarity on Form3’s full US Payments product suite. With previous experience working across US A2A Payment rails, you will be supporting the wider team to make informed decisions, making a meaningful impact on the build and delivery of Form3’s US Payments products.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate effectively across the FedNow, RTP, Fedwire, Zelle and ACH product lines, working closely with Product Owners and Product Managers to support the end-to-end delivery of payments solutions.
- Partner with the wider business to initiate and support the build of future products, such as Form3’s Zelle, Fedwire and ACH gateways.
- Partner with cross-functional Engineering teams across the US to translate product vision into actionable requirements.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert on Form3’s full US payments product suite, offering guidance and clarity to both internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Analyse the impact of product changes and enhancements quickly and effectively, shaping and documenting requirements to support continuous improvement.
- Take full ownership of certain tasks within the team, such as writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, creating functional features and non-functional specifications, and analysing data.
- Develop a high-level understanding of the overall US product line and underlying platform architecture to further inform decision-making and prioritisation.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR 🔍
Form3’s Product team is a central function to the success of our US offering, we're therefore looking for an ambitious and versatile Product Owner who can act autonomously, whilst also working well as a key player within a close-knit and delivery focused team.
Essential:
- Over 3 years experience in a Product Owner (Business Analyst) role.
- Experienced working on US Payment gateway products (e.g. FedNow; RTP; ACH; Fedwire; Zelle), with in-depth knowledge of how these schemes work.
- Proven ability in writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and creating functional features and non-functional specifications.
- Technical experience working with API and/or cloud-based product offerings.
- Hands-on experience with data analysis and presenting insights to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Understanding of the full product development lifecycle.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across multiple internal teams, particularly within Engineering.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Desirable
- Previous experience working on Zelle products, with demonstrated understanding of how Zelle differs to other US payment schemes and experience of implementing Zelle gateways.
- Experience within an external-facing role, in which partnering with customers / clients has been a core responsibility.
INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️
Stage One: Screening Call with the Talent Team
Stage Two: Team Interview with a Senior Business Analyst and Senior Product Manager
Stage Three: Zoom Interview with two Heads of Product
Stage Four: Executive Review with the Chief Product Officer
We always aim to stick to the above process; however, there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is required for us to be sure we are hiring the right person!
HIRING LOCATIONS 📍
We're currently able to consider applications from candidates based in Ontario (Canada) and the following US states: Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina.
This is a fully remote role. You'll be expected to travel occasionally for team and customer meetings, primarily to New York, with occasional travel to the UK.
BENEFITS 🏝️
Form3 are a 100% remote, flexible business and are able to offer part-time working arrangements. We believe this enables our people to achieve amazing things with a healthy work-life balance.
For further information on what it’s like to work here, and for more information on our full benefits package, visit our careers page. If you have any other questions, we’d be happy to discuss these with your during the interview process.
ABOUT FORM3 💭
At Form3, we're building the technology that powers the future of account-to-account payments, helping banks and financial institutions deliver faster, smarter and more resilient payment experiences. We're committed to creating a flexible, inclusive workplace where people can do their best work. As a remote-first company, we support flexible working patterns and offer part-time opportunities where possible. We continually invest in our people through a competitive benefits package, although these vary by location. Speak to our Talent Team to learn what's available where you are.
For more information about life at Form3, check out the following pages:
What we do | Life at Form3 | Benefits | Flexa-verified employer | Podcasts
OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT
We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.
Our employee lifecycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.
As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.
If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to [email protected] clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.
For more information please refer to our Recruitment Data Policy.
Skills Required
- 2 years' experience in a Business Analyst or Junior Product Owner role
- Previous experience working on Zelle products
- Proven ability in writing user stories, defining acceptance criteria, creating functional and non-functional specifications
- Technical experience working with API and cloud-based product offerings
- Hands-on experience with data analysis and presenting insights to stakeholders
- Sound understanding of the full product development lifecycle
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Working knowledge of other US payment schemes (e.g. FedNow; RTP; ACH)
- Experience in an external-facing role partnering with customers/clients
What We Do
Form3 develop payment technology. We offer a fully managed, payment technology platform for Financial Institutions as-a-Service.Our vision is to be the worlds most trusted provider of payment technology.We design, build and run the technology that powers the future of payments.Historically, banking leaders believed that infrastructure technologies were an asset for their financial institution because they were managed locally and could be customised. Form3 is changing this model and offering payments infrastructure as a service. A fully cloud native platform that is fully managed to lower costs across operations, infrastructure, security, upgrades, and change management.Form3 has proven that there is a cheaper, simpler, and more efficient way for FI's to handle large payment volumes and scale dynamically without a heavy infrastructure burden. We enable FI’s to benefit from the flexibility, business agility and speed to market that an API-first platform brings along with embedded services that ensure they are always future-ready.Form3 work with regulated financial institutions including large Enterprise banks and digital challenger banks including Mastercard, Lloyds Banking Group, Ebury, LHV, PPS, N26, Square, Aion Bank and others.
