Owen Bennett
About Candidate
Product leader with 10+ years’ experience building customer-focused payments and lending products for UK and EU markets. I specialise in turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into elegant, revenue-generating product experiences. Strong background in data-driven decision-making, cross-functional leadership and scaling teams from ideation to market. Passionate about mentoring product teams, improving conversion through experimentation, and delivering secure, compliant services that customers trust.
Education
• Focus on microeconomics, econometrics and industrial organisation. • President, Economics Society (2012) — organised speaker series and industry visits.
• Practical introduction to ML concepts and how to apply supervised models to product experiments and personalization.
Work & Experience
• Managed a suite of point-of-sale and personal-lending products serving SMEs and consumers across the UK. • Designed and launched a soft-credit-check flow which increased approval rates by 14% while maintaining underwriting standards. • Implemented A/B testing framework and analytics dashboards (Mixpanel + Looker) to accelerate iterative improvements. • Worked closely with AML and legal to introduce KYC automation, reducing manual reviews by 40%.
• Delivered requirement definitions, stakeholder workshops and process maps for retail banking transformation programmes. • Led vendor evaluations and produced cost/benefit analyses influencing selection of a core banking partner. • Created reporting models used by senior leadership for strategic decision-making.
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