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FINTECH / VALUE-ADDED SERVICESZEN.COM

Making purchase benefits work end to end

I own Extended Warranty and Cashbacks across the customer journey, service rules, partner integrations and delivery—not just the feature backlog.

Extended Warranty + Cashbacks

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

  1. 01Start with the customer journey: what the benefit is, which conditions apply, what the customer needs to do and what happens next.
  2. 02Work with design to turn service rules into understandable flows and messaging, rather than leaving customers to interpret operational complexity.
  3. 03Translate partner capabilities and API constraints into product requirements, including customer-facing states, exceptions and acceptance criteria.
  4. 04Bring commercial, legal, compliance and engineering into scope decisions so trade-offs and dependencies are resolved before implementation.
  5. 05Own roadmap and backlog decisions across both services, keeping customer needs connected to what the team can deliver.

System / stack

Customer journeysPartner APIsService rulesComplianceProduct prioritisation

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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