In this role, you’ll get to;
- Analyze the online financial and/or loyalty ecosystem, markets, competitive landscape and user requirements.
- Conceptualize, launch and optimize products and features, experiment, test their performance and iterate quickly.
- Work collaboratively with Engineering, Marketing, Legal and UX teams on cutting-edge technologies.
Business Requirements Gathering;
- Proven ability to leverage analytics and quantitative methods to inform and influence decision-making.
- Strong data skills
- Experience developing and launching products.
- Experience leading global product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
- Entrepreneurial and analytical skills; effective at breaking down complex problems and driving and managing change.
- Prioritize requirements and align with all other teams around a product or large-scale release through primary user research and workshops.
- Capture stakeholder feedback through multiple channels and methods to inform multiyear product roadmaps.
- Analyze product and business dependency with rough estimation and time to market.
- Analyze impact from requirement to cost of development and development effort.
Product Development Leadership;
- Define, maintain, and develop Product strategy and roadmap for the implementation and rollout.
- Define product prototyping and design detail for UX/UI designer to develop product detail design and style guide.
- Instruct and direct the development team on functional and technical requirements, formulating, and defining system scope, integration requirements, and objectives.
- Resource/vendor management for development, testing and support.
- Manage stakeholders’ expectations while building credibility with senior stakeholders through a strong business sense.
Ongoing Delivery and Support Management;
- Develop and implement product launch plans from rollout to technical and non-technical service delivery teams.
- Own quality and ongoing management of product support materials – e.g. technical “how-to’s”, digital properties, marketing content, etc.
- Train service desk, customer service teams and/or knowledge team owners as appropriate
- Prioritize ideas and opportunities to enhance products and maintain product
roadmaps/investment cases. - Expand reach and effectiveness of existing products including making recommendations for new execution and support models as well as technological improvements.
- Focus more on delivery and results rather than ideology.
- Develop operational process, practice, handbook and FAQ for operation and customer service.
- Ability to lead the first setup of operation process and command center.
- Working with Marketing team on product release communication and business impact announcement.
Qualifications;
- Bachelor’s degree in technical field (i.e. Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline).
- MBA or Master’s degree in Math, Economics, Computer Science or Statistics
- Data tools – SQL, Python, R, or equivalent
- 5-10 years of experience of being product owner that develops digital products across different mediums like web and mobile. Previously being a mobile application product owner is a plus.
- Excellent understanding of Mobile app ecosystems, business strategies, industry benchmarking.
- Experience in loyalty program, finance industry and/or retail program is a plus.
- Basic understanding of software development technology tool stacks e.g., Mobile Application (iOS, Android), Web application, API spec, Cloud Service, etc.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of business process analysis and exposure to software development methodologies (e.g., agile).
- Strong work ethic; demonstrated attention to detail; excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to lead meetings with off-site technical and development teams.
- Ability to multi-task and lead various work streams concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong command of English (written and spoken).