Senior Product Owner

Job Purpose The job holder is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and work of the product development team by serving as the voice of the customer. The job holder has responsibilities across product management (solution design, solution development, testing, marketing, evaluation and refinements), business analysis and user experience to deliver on the customer value proposition within the business. The job holder owns the product vision and roadmap of deliverables with accompanying profit and loss accountability.
Furthermore, the Job Holder has accountability to leading/ coaching other Data Product Owner in career development and guiding them to resolve their product roadblocks.
Key Accountabilities (1)
A. Product Development and Delivery Roadmap
A1. Product Development
Co-working with business stakeholders to define Key Objectives and Business value of data products.
Analyze new technology opportunities and other new market trends to form product ideas (including but not limited to User Workbench, Machine Learning model, Business
Intelligent Dashboard, AI Chatbot, Metadata tool)
Develop product requirements and manage end to end product delivery including customer portrait identification and pain-point journey; Solution design; Solution Development;
Testing; Launching; Experience Evaluation... and Solution Adjustment.
A2. Delivery Roadmap
Drive end-to-end implementation of business as well as technical, security, governance requirements.
Take charge of defining solution epics, user stories and specific business acceptance criteria with cross functional development team.
Oversee tasks related to product launches and co-create high impact marketing plans for go-to-market implementation.
Key Accountabilities (2)
B. Project/ Stakeholder Management
B1. Project Management
Adopt and embrace Agile/Scrum practices during the product development process/life cycle.
Lead product planning release plans and set the expectation for the delivery of new functionalities, as well as strengthen the Agile working rhythm by joining daily stand-ups,
iteration, sprint reviews, sprint refinement and retrospectives.
Resolve people problems and project roadblocks, conduct post mortem and root cause analysis to improve Agile/Scrum practices for maximum productivity and stay on track with committed deliverables.
Fosters collaboration between cross-functional teams involved in projects.
On top of risk/issue/dependency management within and across related projects, including: proactive communication of risks prior to an issue developing, clear articulation of the risk, specific project impact due to dependency/risk/ issue with mitigation plan, update regularly clear next actions/ steps.
B2. Stakeholder Management
Represent the product development team with stakeholders and customers / users, as required.
Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product, also gather feedback, address concerns and inform stakeholders about project progress.
Drive alignment between product management and senior management teams to create a product that fits the company portfolio.
Key Accountabilities (3)
C. People Management
C1. Team/ Squad Management
Attract, onboard and retain the right talents for a high- performing team
Communicate team and individual KRAs/ KPIs, goals, action plan, expectations and results, as well as relevant HR offerings to team members
Act as a role model and promote corporate culture at sub- function level
Manage team performance & provide feedback regularly (following the annual performance management cycle)
C2. Cross Team Management
Leading/ Coaching other DPO in building product ideas/ requirements as well as other perspectives such as Stakeholder Communication, Solution building, Blocker clearance.
Responsible for business efficiency, profit and loss for the product/solution offerings of the subjected domain which contributed by cross-delivery teams.
Job requirements:
A Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Banking, Economics, Computing, Information Technology, Business Management or related disciplines
Professional certification in Agile Product Management and Product Owner certification is preferred
At least 8 years of relevant banking experience or financial services/Ecommerce consulting with 2 years of managerial experience
Business English standard proficiency as required for the role
Understanding of digital banking industry and recent financial innovations
Experienced in business analysis and implementation of retail banking/corporate banking/lending/payments digital solutions
Experienced working with cloud data platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Databricks), data analytics and develop / implement AI/ML models are preferred.
Experienced with defining minimum marketable features and minimum viable products to define product roadmap
Working knowledge of JIRA and CONFLUENCE
Experienced leading large scale projects within an agile setup is preferred