Product Owner – Point X

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).