nesto

Product Owner

nesto$90K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-4+ years of experience in product ownership or a delivery product role.
  • Ability to break down outcomes into clear, actionable tasks for execution.
  • Skilled in writing concise acceptance criteria and eliminating ambiguity in documentation.
  • Proficient in team alignment and proactive in spotting project blockers.
  • Comfort with making and justifying scope decisions amidst changing priorities.
  • Product instinct to assess user and business value beyond mere feasibility.
  • Strong communication skills for conveying complex requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end feature delivery from defined initiative to shipped product.
  • Break initiatives into logically sequenced epics and buildable user stories.
  • Provide recommendations for critical tradeoffs, supporting the PM's strategic decisions.
  • Ensure the team stays aligned and resolves day-to-day delivery blockers.
  • Maintain delivery status transparency for stakeholders, flagging risks early.
  • Collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager to prioritize and sequence work.
  • Engage in release planning and UAT to mitigate edge cases before launch.

Benefits

  • Work alongside a team of high-performing talent in product and tech.
  • Accelerated learning opportunities in production systems within a year.
  • Comprehensive benefits plan fully covered by the company, including premium insurance and telemedicine access.
  • 4 weeks of vacation for optimal work-life balance.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and AI resources to enhance productivity.
  • A supportive and collaborative working environment that promotes teamwork.
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE

Where you sit.

You'll join one of our product streams - [e.g. Origination] - working shoulder-to-shoulder with a Product Manager who owns the strategy and roadmap for the area. Your job is to own how that strategy becomes reality: turning initiatives into well-sequenced epics, ready-to-build stories, and predictable delivery, while keeping the team aligned and unblocked.

This is a delivery-focused role on the product management track. You own the path from a defined initiative to a shipped feature, end-to-end. Your closest collaborators are the Product Manager whose strategy you deliver, the Engineering Manager who owns how it's built, and the engineers, designers, and mortgage operations experts who bring it to life.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

  • Own the delivery of features in your area, end-to-end - from a defined initiative through to shipped, working product. You stay close to the work; you don't hand off and wait.
  • Break initiatives into a logical, correctly-sequenced set of epics, then slice those into clear, buildable stories with acceptance criteria sharp enough that engineering can start without a meeting. (You'll partner closely with your PM on epic sequencing early, and own it fully as your judgment proves out.)
  • Own scope and feature delivery but when a call touches a critical tradeoff, bring a recommendation - not just a question - and let the PM make the strategic call.
  • Keep your team aligned and moving: be the day-to-day product point of contact, resolve delivery blockers fast, and escalate the cross-team ones that need the PM.
  • Own delivery status for every feature in flight. Stakeholders always know where things stand, and risks or slippage get flagged early with a recommended path forward.
  • Partner tightly with your Engineering Manager: you own what, how much, and in what order; they own how it's built and the health of the team.
  • Stay close to UAT, release planning, and pre-launch readiness so edge cases are addressed and downstream impacts are understood before launch.
  • Grow your product judgment continuously - reasoning about user and business value and correct sequencing, not just what's fastest to build.

AI-Augmented Ways of Working

  • Actively use AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Figma AI, Gemini, and others) to accelerate your workflow - synthesizing requirements, drafting epics and stories, generating documentation, and pressure-testing breakdowns before they hit the backlog.
  • Don't wait for a perfect process. Use the tools available to get to a clear, buildable plan faster.
  • Stay close to the work and use every tool at your disposal to move it forward.
  • Share what you discover. How you work should make the people around you better.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

The profile.

  • 2-4+ years of experience in product ownership, or a delivery product role.
  • Demonstrated ability to take a defined outcome and break it into clear, correctly-sequenced, buildable work that a team can execute without constant clarification.
  • Writes acceptance criteria and documentation that remove ambiguity rather than create it.
  • Keeps a team aligned and moving, spotting drift, dependencies, and blockers early and acts on them immediately.
  • Comfortable making and defending scope and sequencing calls as priorities shift, which they will.
  • Enough product instinct (or the clear trajectory toward it) to reason about user and business value, not just deliverability.
  • Strong communication skills: able to explain complex requirements clearly to Product, Engineering, and operations.
  • Proven, active fluency with AI tools across your workflow. We will ask you specifically how you use them.

PREFERRED BUT NOT A MUST

  • Exposure to mortgage origination, lending, or a regulated financial services environment.
  • Familiarity with LOS or lending platforms, or translating operational needs into system requirements.
  • Prior experience owning delivery across multiple concurrent work streams.

YOU SHOULDN'T APPLY IF

Be honest with yourself.

  • You want to own product strategy and roadmap right now. This role owns the delivery of the strategy and grows toward owning the strategy, your judgment is built here, not assumed on day one.
  • You need a fixed, frozen spec to work from. Priorities shift here; you'll be re-sequencing and re-scoping continuously.
  • You hand off a set of tickets and consider your job done. Ownership here runs from a defined initiative all the way to shipped, working product.
  • You treat AI tools as a curiosity rather than a daily accelerant.
  • You don't thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
  • You are not open to experimentation and continuous improvement.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

How we get to know each other.

  • Recruiter Screen - 30 minutes
  • Discovery Call with Director of Product - 30 minutes
  • Take-home Assignment followed by Presentation and Q&A - 60 minutes
  • Final Stakeholder Interview - 45 minutes


THE REWARD

What you get.

  • The A-Team: Work alongside high-performing talent in product, tech, and the mortgage industry.
  • Accelerated Growth: The slope of your learning curve here will be vertical. You will touch more production systems in one year than you would in five years elsewhere.
  • Top-Tier Coverage: Premium benefits plan fully paid by nesto, including comprehensive insurance and unlimited access to telemedicine and mental health services for you and your family.
  • Rest & Recharge: 4 weeks of vacation to ensure you stay at peak performance.
  • Best-in-Class Tools: Everything you need to execute without friction, including the AI tools that make you faster.
  • Working Framework: The environment that makes you productive and enables real teamwork.


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About nesto

Nesto Group International is a multinational retail chain incorporated by Western International Group that operates a chain of hypermarkets and supermarkets headquartered in Ajman, UAE. It was founded in 2004 by K. P. Basheer, Chairman of Western International Group in the United Arab Emirates and is led by Managing Directors Siddique Pallolathil, K. P. Jamal, and Directors K. P. Nawas, K. P. Noufal, K. P. Fayiz, and K. P. Athif. The company has 99 outlets operating hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores across the Middle East and India while employing people of various nationalities. The largest hypermarket of Nesto Group is situated in Deira, Dubai with a 350,000 sqft area.
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