Product Owner, Payments & Data Products

Sean
Facey

I take data and payments products from idea to production. Based in Hertfordshire.

Currently at Redbridge
Based in Hertfordshire, UK
Experience 10+ years
00 — About

The work
behind the title

Product Owner working in payments and data products.

I currently lead product for a payments analytics platform used to help enterprise merchants understand and reduce their card-acquiring costs, taking it from early concept through to production.

Before that, I managed a portfolio of client software projects at Builder.ai, and spent eight years at Capgemini, starting as a degree apprentice and working across government, professional services and aviation programmes.

What I bring

Hands-on card-payments knowledge: acquiring, interchange, scheme fees, authorisation
Data product ownership, from ingestion to reporting
Agile delivery and cross-functional team leadership
AI-assisted ways of working
Product Management Product Ownership Payments & Card Acquiring Interchange & Scheme Fees Data Products & BI Agile / Scrum Stakeholder Management Programme Management AI-Assisted Delivery
10+ Years delivering technology
3 Sectors: government, enterprise software, payments
7.5 Months, concept to production
01 — Experience

Where I've
delivered

Aug 2025 — Present Redbridge Debt & Treasury Advisory
Product Owner

Product Owner for a payments analytics platform supporting Redbridge's advisory work with enterprise merchants.

Leading the product from concept to production: roadmap, backlog, requirements, UAT and release
Working across card acquiring, interchange and scheme-fee data from multiple acquirers and processors
Collaborating with advisory, engineering, data and external partners
Mar 2024 — May 2025 Builder.ai
Product Owner

Product Owner at an AI-powered software development platform (company entered administration in May 2025).

Managed a portfolio of 11 concurrent client projects (255+ features), with 95% client satisfaction and budgets up to $250k per project
Led cross-functional teams of 40+ across design, engineering and QA, improving sprint velocity by 25% and reducing timeline slippage by 15%
Ran customer discovery and requirements sessions, and supported pre-sales scoping, RFPs and proof-of-concepts
Sep 2015 — Nov 2023 Capgemini
Application Consultant

Joined as a degree apprentice and progressed to Senior Analyst across government, professional services and aviation clients.

Ran programme office services for a £30M+ UK government digital portfolio: planning, risk, financial forecasting and supplier commercial management
Coordinated the migration of 100+ physical servers to Azure, managing an offshore engineering team and stakeholders across six continents
Led a team of 5 software engineers on a business-critical airport operations application
02 — Education

Academic

2015 — 2020
BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions
Aston University
Degree apprenticeship with Capgemini. Upper Second-Class Honours.
03 — Contact

Let's
talk.

Always happy to talk payments, data products and product delivery.

Email sean@seanfacey.uk
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/seanfacey
Location Hertfordshire, UK