Product Owner, Mobile Financial Services at Interswitch

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Planning
• Contribute to the vision and strategy development for allocated products, considering the trends in the industry both globally and locally to enable the attainment of the business objectives
• Create a roadmap, aligned to the product strategy, and conduct periodic progress reviews to support the alignment of stakeholders towards a common goal and to drive the execution of the strategy
• Support the development of the product road map and identifying growth opportunities for your product
• Work closely with the line manager to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Keep abreast with Agile best practices and new trends Implementation and Measurement
• Participate in the development of new products and innovations as a member of the project team and ensure that the scope and vision is adhered to enable the delivery of timely solutions
• Carry out the role of a Product Owner in agile teams
• Coordinate the piloting of new products or features with clients, feedback the reviews, issues and defect to the project team for resolution to ensure the deployment of a fully functional, reliable product
• Providing vision, direction, and feature list to meet customer requirements, to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Assess value, develop and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
• Monitor and report on the performance of the product and identify any issues to ensure the sustained provision of stable and reliable services to all users
• Provide technical support to sales and business development teams to enable the effective conversion of leads to revenue

Requirements

• Academic Qualification(s): Good 1st degree in relevant field/discipline Professional Qualification(s): Professional certifications in agile and scrum Experience (Number of relevant years): Minimum of 4 years experience as a product owner, with preferred experience in data-driven, highly competitive, complex, dynamic and digital environments such as payments & fintech, financial services, e-commerce, telecoms
• Skills Required: 1
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 2
• Strategic thinking 3
• Innovation & creative thinking 4
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 5
• Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills 6 Project Management Competencies required:
• 1 In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 2
• Relationship Management 3
• Resourceful and can identify requirements 4
• Analytical and Metrics-driven 5
• Flexible and adaptable 6
• Ability to multi –task