Senior Product Owner
Our trusted partner, a financial services corporation that is currently embarking on a digital transformation campaign is recruiting a Senior / Lead Product Owner who has demonstrable product experience either in payments, accounts, financial crime prevention and savings. This is an exciting position, where the chosen candidate will have autonomy, regularly engaging with C-Suite members of staff and senior stakeholders to deliver digital technology change during a pivotal period in our client's history. To be succeful you must have strong leadership capabilites (people management / 3rd party vendor), agile delivery background and experience of rebuilding / enhancing banking products hosted in the cloud.
Our client is looking to pay a basic salary of £90,000 crica + 25% bonus + 30 days holiday + excellent corporate benefits to be based in London or Chatham on a hybrid basis.
Core responsibilities:
- Understand customer and market needs and translate them into actionable product requirements.
- Define, prioritise, and ensure clear communication of requirements to deliver product features using EPICS and user stories
- Work closely with the organisation and SMEs to develop and execute the company's desired product technology outcomes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including technology, design, customer service and 2nd Line of Defence to ensure successful delivery of products and features
- Stay current on new technologies and trends and evaluate their potential impact on the company's products.
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching to the supporting teams to foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends to inform the development of new products and the enhancement of existing ones.
Experience requirements:
- Recent domain experience in FS (preferably Banking) is a must
- Strong SME product knowledge of domain financial services products (payments, accounts, financial crime prevention and savings) is a must
- Strong experience leading/overseeing a product function comprised of cross-functional engineers, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts is must have
- Recent experience with digital product environments preferably within Azure is a must-have
- Strong capabilities in stakeholder management / managing third-party suppliers is a must-have
- Must have a strong understanding of Agile / SAFe Agile is a must
- Any experience of lending or savings system procedures would be fantastic is a nice to have
Senior Product Owner