Product Owner-Product Owner – Web Platform, Design Systems

The Role

As a Product Owner for the central web platform, you will own the product vision and backlog for a platform that powers digital experiences across all FDJ UNITED brands and web channels. Your remit sits at the intersection of web technology, design systems, and brand expression — ensuring the platform evolves in a way that is technically sound, scalable, and visually consistent.

You bring a genuine understanding of how modern web platforms are built and maintained. You are fluent in the language of frontend engineering — familiar with component-driven architecture, design tokens, accessibility standards, performance considerations, and the challenges of scaling a design system across multiple teams and brands. You don't need to write the code, but you understand the trade-offs behind technical decisions and can engage engineers as a credible, informed partner.

You are highly empowered and self-directed. You define your own priorities, build strong cross-functional relationships, and take ownership of outcomes — not just outputs.

What You Will Do

Web Platform Product Ownership

• Own and evolve the product vision and backlog for the central web platform, with a clear focus on scalability, performance, and developer experience.
• Deeply understand the platform architecture — including how components are built, versioned, consumed, and deprecated across brand and product teams.
• Define clear acceptance criteria for platform capabilities, ensuring technical requirements are well understood and solutions are built to last.
• Identify platform gaps and technical debt that impact brand teams' ability to build consistently and efficiently across web channels, and prioritise accordingly.
• Work with engineering leads and architects to evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, third-party integrations, and architectural changes — providing product context to technical decisions.

Design System & Branding

• Act as the product owner for the design system — owning its roadmap, component backlog, and adoption strategy across teams.
• Understand the anatomy of a design system: design tokens, component APIs, theming layers, accessibility compliance, and the relationship between design tooling (e.g. Figma) and code implementation.
• Partner with brand, design, and engineering teams to ensure the design system accurately reflects FDJ UNITED's brand guidelines and can flex to support multi-brand, web-channel requirements.
• Champion design system adoption by making it the path of least resistance for product teams building on the web platform.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Technical Communication

• Translate complex technical and brand platform concepts into clear, business-friendly narratives for senior stakeholders — and equally, translate business needs into technically grounded requirements for engineering teams.
• Engage closely with UX, brand, and product design teams to ensure platform capabilities enable — rather than constrain — great design outcomes across web channels.
• Collaborate with domain architects and engineering leads to shape the long-term platform and design system roadmap.
• Use data — platform usage metrics, component adoption rates, web performance analytics, and customer insights — to inform prioritisation and validate decisions.

Customer & Brand Experience

• Maintain a strong customer lens — understanding how platform and design system decisions ultimately affect the end user's experience across all brands and web channels.
• Evaluate platform capabilities and constraints through the lens of brand integrity, accessibility, and cross-device web consistency.
• Stay current with emerging web standards, browser capabilities, and design system trends — bringing relevant insights back to shape the platform's direction.
• Ensure adherence to Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations relevant to the platform, including accessibility standards and data handling requirements.

Your Experience

• Proven experience and knowledge in web-based applications and technology.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience as a Product Owner.
• Genuine passion for web platforms and upcoming web trends.
• Fantastic communication and presentation skills.
• Creative and strategic thinker with a positive attitude.
• Data and evidence-driven mind-set in decision making.
• Excellent English speaking and writing skills.
• Experience from working in the online gambling industry is an advantage.
• Experience from working with CX, UX, and technical stakeholders.
• Must thrive in a multi-tasking, fast-moving, and demanding environment.