Technical Product Manager

We Are Sparta Sparta is the next-generation commodity trading platform. We give trading desks the clarity, control, and collaboration they need to move faster and trade smarter. In February 2025, we secured $42 million in Series B funding. Now we’re scaling up across the business, and it’s an exciting time to join. Our people are the driving force behind everything we do. At Sparta, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, backed by a team who wants you to succeed. You’ll be challenged, supported, and given room to grow. Because building something this ambitious takes everyone at their best. At Sparta, your work has reach. From improving our platform, to powering smarter decisions for our customers, to changing how commodity trading is done around the world. And because we’re growing fast, you won’t just build your career. You’ll accelerate it, with a level of ownership and impact you simply don’t get at bigger, more bureaucratic companies. The Role A Technical Product Manager (TPM) bridges the gap between technology and business, playing a critical role in guiding the development of products that align with both customer needs and company goals. They combine technical expertise with strategic thinking to translate business requirements into actionable product features, engage with team leadership on prioritizing features based on value, and ensure seamless communication between engineering, design, and business teams. The TPM understands the technical details and ramifications of product decisions and collaborates closely with developers to solve complex challenges, make informed trade-offs, and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. Their role is essential because they help balance product features against technical complexity, optimize resources, reduce development risks, and ensure that products not only meet market demands but are also technically feasible and aligned with the company’s vision and objectives. The Technical Product Manager (TPM) role at Sparta encompasses product strategy and execution, design and architecture. You partner with product experts, commodity owners, product designers and software developers to make sure we’re shipping high quality products on time. You define and track product delivery milestones, identify risks and blockers, remove roadblocks and anticipate customer needs. You will work on multiple Sparta products across energy commodity verticals. This position requires a combination of project management, technical proficiency in data software systems and exceptional execution skills, to successfully drive product projects. You are a team player, a person who loves enabling a team, fixing problems, scaling technical solutions, and always embraces the best idea, even when it is not your own. This role can be based out of London, Madrid or Barcelona, working on a hybrid basis- ideally 2- 3 days a week in the office with the team Core Responsibilities * Defining project scopes, objectives, and deliverables. * Identifying and resolving dependencies and roadblocks. * Partner with Sparta’s commodity owners, software engineers and other stakeholders to drive key product deliverables through the entire software development cycle, from ideation, discovery and validation through implementation, release, and support of your products. * Synthesize concrete technical goals from product vision, mapping global product strategy to granular team tasks and issues. * Keep broad and complete state of everything involving or related to team's projects. Identify and resolve issues that may steer projects off-course. * Enhance cross-team collaboration. Align domain experts and technical experts around shared objectives. Improve efficiency where you see miscommunication or lack of coordination. * Coordinating with teams to plan and prioritize tasks to deliver biggest business impact. What We're Looking For: * 4-6 years of experience as a TPM working with multiple engineering teams on multiple products simultaneously, preferably in a fast-paced or dynamic environment * Demonstrated success managing complex data and AI centric software development projects for an enterprise software company or startup. * An ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning technical concepts. * Being outcome orientated with a getting things done attitude. * Demonstrated ability to influence and coordinate between individuals who do not report directly to you. * Ability to switch thinking hats, while primarily wearing the Green focusing on creativity; the possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas. * A lightweight approach to project management centered around rapid iteration. * Building strong relationships with customer-facing teams and possessing high levels of empathy for our end-users’ needs. * Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team’s vision and maintaining a high product quality bar. * Experience and confidence using AI frameworks to automate work and generate efficiencies * Past experience working in a commodity trading environment is a plus but not required. Sparta Commodities is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. We are determined that no-one will ever receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any basis covered by appropriate law.

Hello. We’re Teya. Teya was founded on a simple belief: local businesses deserve better. They are the cafés, restaurants, salons, shops and entrepreneurs that bring character to our high streets, create jobs and keep communities moving. Yet for too long, financial services has made life harder for them - with clunky tools, poor support and complexity that gets in the way of running a business. Teya exists to change that. We’re building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe - one built around simple tools, thoughtful design and real human support. Our Members rely on us to help them run their business with confidence, and that responsibility shapes the way we work. We move fast. We care about quality. We stay close to the detail. And we believe great performance and genuine hospitality should go hand in hand. If you want to build meaningful products, solve real problems and make a genuine difference for local businesses, we’d love to hear from you Your Mission As a Senior Product Manager in the Global Merchant Database team, your mission is to own and evolve a core platform that sits at the heart of the company’s ecosystem. You will lead the development of products that manage merchant data, product catalogues, pricing models, and agreements - enabling teams across the business to build reliable, scalable, and secure merchant-facing experiences.This is a platform and technical product role, working with a highly cross-functional set of internal stakeholders. You will act as the product owner for APIs, event-driven systems, and authorization models that underpin how merchant data is accessed and used across the company. What You’ll Do * Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery for key platform capabilities within the Global Merchant Database * Act as the product owner for merchant data APIs and event interfaces, treating APIs as first-class products * Work closely with engineering to define clear, scalable API contracts, event schemas, and data models * Ensure backward compatibility, versioning, and deprecation strategies are thoughtfully planned and communicated * Partner with internal teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities, not one-off solutions * Define and evolve authorization and access control models for merchant data, balancing security, compliance, and usability * Collaborate with design, engineering, marketing, operations, security, and legal teams to bring solutions to life * Translate complex technical and business requirements into clear, actionable product requirements * Prioritise ruthlessly based on platform impact, adoption, and long-term scalability * Define platform success metrics (e.g. adoption, reliability, performance, time-to-integrate) and continuously optimise post-launch * Support the coordination and integration of multiple new products each year, ensuring a reliable, intelligent merchant data foundation * Champion documentation excellence, including API documentation, changelogs, migration guides, and internal product RFCs * Act as a strong internal advocate for platform thinking, consistency, and simplicity Required Skills & Experience * 5+ Years in a Product Manager Role * Solid understanding of how REST APIs work (and awareness of other integration patterns) * Hands-on experience testing APIs using tools such as Postman or similar * Experience working with event-driven systems and defining product-level event semantics * Ability to reason about system design trade-offs (sync vs async, scalability, reliability) from a product perspective * Understanding of data modeling, data types, and schema evolution * Basic SQL knowledge and comfort working with data directly * Familiarity with DDD concepts from a product perspective (domains, bounded contexts, ownership) * Experience defining authorization and access control models (e.g. roles, scopes, policies) in multi-tenant systems The Perks * Flexible working hours, built on trust and collaboration with your team * Physical and mental health support through Wellhub, including access to 1,500+ gyms, 1-1 therapy, meditation, and wellbeing apps * Enhanced maternity and paternity leave options * Cycle-to-Work Scheme * Health and Life Insurance * Pension Scheme * 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Bank Holidays) * Office snacks every day * Friendly, comfortable, and informal office environment in Central London Teya is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background can thrive and do their best work. We believe that a diverse team leads to better ideas, stronger outcomes, and a more supportive workplace for all. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process whether for interviews, assessments, or other parts of the application—we encourage you to let us know. We are committed to ensuring that every candidate has a fair and accessible experience with us.