Open Digital Services is a tech company with a unique culture, dedicated to creating innovative products for Santander Group Affiliates. Open Digital Services is part of the Retail & Commercial Division of Santander Group, one of the world's largest financial institutions and the Eurozone's leader, we're committed to being the best Digital Bank with Branches in the industry.
Our mission at ODS is to design and support an advanced digital and omnichannel platform, ensuring the best customer experience using cutting-edge technology. Openbank, our flagship partner, is where we develop our most advanced concepts. Be part of our Best-in-Class tech team and help us create unique value for our customers!
Join us to tackle exciting tech challenges in an agile environment, benefiting from learning, growth, and local and international career opportunities in a modern, diverse setting.
As a Senior Business Product Owner, you will:
- Work tightly with Business sponsors in different geographies and projects to define the products & services development end to end
- Interact with multiple stakeholders (Legal, Compliance, Fraud, Risk, ..) during the ideation and discovery phases to align market practices and regulatory requirements.
- You will work with product managers, designers and engineers across the organization to assess value, scope of effort, usability, and priority of features and customer solutions.
- Understand local market practices, perform gap analysis versus existing platform and create product requirements to be used in written specifications, business rules, flows and use cases.
- You will be responsible for the quality and timely delivery of project output from a Business perspective.
- Ensure product rollouts are delivered successfully by conducting end-user testing Knowledge & Personal Skills.
- Collaborate with local Programs to promote global functionalities by detailing functional specification, demo the product and share comprehensive documentation.
To be successful in the role you must have:
- University Degree (Equivalent to a Bachelor degree), preferably in Business, e-business, design or digital field.
- +8 years of professional experience in business consulting, FinTech, or digital business projects in a product management or business analysis roles.
- High knowledge of user experience requirements for front-end digital flows.
- Good understanding of technical delivery best practices, including user story and acceptance criteria, working in cross-functional agile teams and designing MVPs and customer testing approaches.
- Conceptual knowledge of business processes and front-to-back solution architecture that support retail Markets products & services.
- Exceptional problem-solving ability to structure and define analyses to draw conclusions.
- Collaborative and effective work in a group dynamic.
- Advanced level in English.
What do we offer?
- Immediate incorporation to a dynamic and agile company with a growth and expansion project.
- Working in start-up model with the support of Santander Group.
- Competitive remuneration and attractive benefits package.
- Possibility of growth within the company and the Group.
- Collaboration in international projects and possibility of contact with different countries.
- Excellent work environment, social clubs and frequent events.
Would you like to grow with us? Join our team!
Open Digital Services is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered as equal without paying attention to gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, age, political orientation, union membership nor disability status.
We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.
The personal data you provide as well as any data generated during the selection process are confidential and will be processed by Open Bank, S.A./ Open Digital Services, S.L. with registered office at Plaza de Santa Bárbara 2, 28004 (Madrid), for the sole purpose of managing your participation in the selection processes and, where appropriate, to formalise your recruitment.
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Santander Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Santander and has not been reviewed or approved by Santander.
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Retirement Support — A dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% of eligible pay and immediate vesting are highlighted as core strengths, supporting long‑term savings. This is reinforced by company‑paid disability and life/AD&D coverage that bolster financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off typically ranges from 18–30 days in the U.S. with 11 paid holidays, plus dedicated volunteer and development time; the UK features a minimum of 25 days with buy/sell options. Some roles also use self‑managed PTO, offering additional flexibility depending on team norms.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. parental benefits include 8 weeks paid for all parents and a total of 16 weeks paid for birth mothers, with flexibility for reduced hours around childbirth. Caregiver leave and dependent‑care programs add further family support.
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Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN) is a leading commercial bank, founded in 1857 and headquartered in Spain and one of the largest banks in the world by market capitalization. The group’s activities are consolidated into five global businesses: Retail & Commercial Banking, Digital Consumer Bank, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), Wealth Management & Insurance and Payments (PagoNxt and Cards). This operating model allows the bank to better leverage its unique combination of global scale and local leadership. Santander aims to be the best open financial services platform providing services to individuals, SMEs, corporates, financial institutions and governments. The bank’s purpose is to help people and businesses prosper in a simple, personal and fair way. Santander is building a more responsible bank and has made a number of commitments to support this objective, including raising €220 billion in green financing between 2019 and 2030. In the first quarter of 2024, Banco Santander had €1.3 trillion in total funds, 166 million customers, 8,400 branches and 211,000 employees.
