Digital Product Owner

Description:

Minimum Experience

• 5 years’ relevant experience in product management functions designing and developing digital solutions.=

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in business/engineering/computer science or related discipline.
• Specific training and certifications for Agile Scrum Master and Agile Product Owner or rela5ted disciplines.

Key Responsibility

• Own and manage the delivery of Mobile Banking across multiple delivery squads driving innovation and the best customer experience in the market.
• Own the KPIs for driving digital usage, activation and engagement in collaboration with the user experience and sales and activation and product teams.

Responsibilities

Product ownership

• Represent, interface and engage with the business team and technology s and act as the voice of the market to drive creation of value adding digital solutions.
• Understand the customer, market and business needs and align them with the strategic direction of the business segment and organization.
• Responsible for overall agile product development for mobile across the banks services and products.
• Build and manage the mobile banking requirements roadmap and associated backlog

Product vision

• Collate information from various stakeholders and structure it to develop an overall product vision and roadmap
• Responsible for communicating clearly to all the respective agile teams.
• Responsible for the product and product features from conception to delivery.
• Act as the voice of business and be empowered to make decisions that would drive the product development and bring all streams together towards a single goal.
• Set the product roadmap for digital products in development.
• Align different stakeholders on the priorities and features to be built for different releases.

Strategic Contribution

• Ensure effective cascading of the functional strategy into department business plans to ensure vertical alignment and horizontal integration with other interfacing departmental strategies.

People Management

• Motivate and work directly with the agile development team and business stakeholders.
• Ensure all team members are communicating with other teams effectively to produce quality deliverables in line with the product vision.
• Align team objectives for agile development to the overall target business performance KPIs.
• Collaborate with technical/discipline experts and align teams according to business requirements.
• Act as a role model and drive adherence to organizational values and ethics by employees of the assigned department to foster a values driven culture within the bank.

Product management

• Own and manage the delivery of mobile banking across multiple delivery squads
• Build and manage the mobile requirements roadmap and associated backlog
• Create product requirements in forms of epics, themes and stories and provide direction to the agile teams to execute on those requirements
• Define, build launch digital solutions for the bank. Move quickly with a focused vision to get things implemented and done. Break down complex problems into actionable solutions.
• Responsible for timely and successful delivery of products, anticipating bottlenecks, making tradeoffs and welcoming an acceptable level of risk to maximize business benefit.

Agile

• Drive one or more agile squads to build and launch amazing digital products
• Empower the product team and agile coach to manage the backlog to create a release and iteration plan based on the roadmap
• Lead the product release planning and set expectation of delivery of new features.