Context
Extended Warranty and Cashbacks add value around everyday purchases, but a benefit is only useful if customers understand it and the service behind it works. As Senior Product Owner, I connect the customer experience with the commercial, legal and technical requirements needed to deliver these services.
The challenge
Make a partner-backed financial service feel straightforward without hiding the conditions that matter. Customer expectations, service rules, compliance requirements and API constraints all need to describe the same experience—including what happens when a journey does not follow the happy path.
Approach
- 01Start with the customer journey: what the benefit is, which conditions apply, what the customer needs to do and what happens next.
- 02Work with design to turn service rules into understandable flows and messaging, rather than leaving customers to interpret operational complexity.
- 03Translate partner capabilities and API constraints into product requirements, including customer-facing states, exceptions and acceptance criteria.
- 04Bring commercial, legal, compliance and engineering into scope decisions so trade-offs and dependencies are resolved before implementation.
- 05Own roadmap and backlog decisions across both services, keeping customer needs connected to what the team can deliver.
System / stack
Ownership in practice
- Customer experience: the journey, conditions and next steps customers need to understand to use the benefit.
- Integration requirements: the business rules, partner dependencies and exception scenarios engineering needs to implement.
- Delivery decisions: a prioritised scope shared across design, engineering, commercial, legal and compliance.
What this reinforced
A benefit is not finished when its screen is designed. The customer promise, partner behaviour and service rules have to hold together.
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