Product Owner
Job Description & Overview
About 1st Formations
At 1st Formations, we empower entrepreneurs to start, run, and grow their businesses with confidence.
Running a business shouldn’t be slowed down by company formation, statutory compliance, accounting, or payroll. From day one, these essentials should be seamless, reliable, and intelligently handled — freeing founders to focus on building and scaling.
We’re a leading UK provider of company formation and compliance services, building a modern, fully integrated technology platform that supports founders at every stage of their journey. Our platform brings together formation, compliance, accounting, payroll, and ongoing business support in one cohesive experience.
No stitched-together services.
No legacy workflows disguised as software.
Just a single, scalable platform built for ambitious founders who want to move fast, stay compliant, and grow with confidence.
Why Join Us Now?
You’ll be joining a business with strong momentum, clear direction, and real opportunity for progression.
£18m annual revenue, including £9m ARR
Over 1 million companies formed
Certified B Corp and Carbon Neutral Business
Forecast to grow 5x–10x over the next three years
The Role
As Product Owner (Data & Delivery), you'll own one product area end to end, from requirement through to released, accepted and measured. Working to the Senior Product Manager, you'll turn agreed outcomes into well-shaped requirements, a prioritised backlog and released changes that work for customers, operations and commercial teams.
The role is data-led. You'll define the measures that matter for your area, query the data yourself rather than waiting to be told what it shows, and work with our Data and Analytics Lead to turn data needs into clear specifications. Quality is part of the job too: you'll own business acceptance, defect triage and release readiness, with changes you specified accepted by our Product Quality Analyst, and theirs by you. You'll also play a significant part in our platform migration programme, covering requirements, scoping, prototyping and testing.
Key Responsibilities
Own delivery of your product workstreams end to end, from refined requirement to release and post-release review.
Turn outcomes set by the Senior Product Manager or CPO into clear epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
Own and prioritise the backlog, running refinement, planning and review with engineering and design.
Manage dependencies and risks, and keep operations, support and commercial teams informed on scope and timing.
Define success measures, baselines and targets for each workstream before build starts.
Query data directly to size problems, test assumptions and challenge analytical outputs before they're relied on.
Analyse funnels, cohorts and drop-off to