This isn't your typical Product Owner role
Moorepay is a trusted leader in UK payroll and HR, serving thousands of employers — and we're now in the middle of the most significant transformation in our history, reinventing both what we build for our customers and how we build it. We're bringing payroll, HR and workforce management together on a single, modern platform, and we've rebuilt our product and engineering model around it from the ground up: AI-first, fast, and unlike anything the business has done before.
This is a genuine inflection point. The foundations are being laid right now, and you'd be joining while there's still real shape to give — not walking into a mature product with years of legacy to wade through. It's fast-moving, it's new, and plenty of it is still being figured out. That's the appeal.
We're looking for a Product Owner who turns platform strategy into the specifications our delivery teams build against, day in, day out.
This is a hybrid role based 3 days a week in our Manchester office
We work in small, autonomous, cross-functional teams — we call them Pods — that bring Engineering, QA, UX and Product together around measurable outcomes rather than feature output. It's a deliberately modern, AI-first way of working, and it moves quickly.
As Platform Product Owner you sit inside the Pod. The Platform Product Manager sets the strategy, the commercial case and the roadmap; you turn that into a clear, sequenced backlog of precise, buildable specifications, make the day-to-day trade-off calls that keep the Pod moving, and accept the work as it's delivered. You are the difference between a good brief and a good product.
Here's the part that makes platform work different: the platform is the foundation the rest of the business builds on, so your customers aren't only end users. The Payroll, HR and Workforce Management teams rely on what the platform provides to build their own products — they're your customers too. Serving all of them cleanly, at once, is the hardest and most rewarding part of the job.
Run the Pod's rhythm — Drive Pod ceremonies — planning, stand-ups, retros — keeping the team focused on outcomes, not just output.
Experience with platform or shared-services product areas — identity, integration, shared data, workflow — rather than standalone feature products.
This is a full time, permanent role on a hybrid basis, 3 days per week in Manchester. You'll work daily alongside your Pod (Engineering, QA, UX) and closely with the Payroll, HR and Workforce Management Product Managers and Owners, with some collaboration across our other pods. Occasional travel for workshops and team events will be required.
Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!
To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.
Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:
- A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
- A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
- Competitive base salary.
- 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
- Private medical insurance.
- Life assurance 4x salary.
- Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
- A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.
