JOB DESCRIPTION
Role: Digital Product Owner - Wealth Management
Location: Abu Dhabi
Summary of role:
- A Digital Product Owner within Wealth will lead a team of highly talented engineers and designers to envision, prioritize and build innovative digital products that will shape the industry for a new generation of tech-savvy customers.
- His/her mission is to work closely with business sponsors to identify key pain points and to collaboratively design and build solutions that delight customers and empower internal staff.
- Product owners will have cutting edge tools and technology at his/her disposal and will work in a high-performing Agile team.
Responsibilities:
- Innovation in products with cross-functional teams and think creatively to deliver first class digital solutions that create rapid impact for employees, customers or advisors.
- Prepare and present product visions and proposals to the leadership team when required.
- Identify KPIs and use them as a cornerstone for team focus and priorities.
- Gain an in-depth understanding of customers and users and gather key insights that will shape the digital experience.
- Manage expectations with business sponsors and company executives.
- Manage cross-functional relationships with emphasis on decision-making over consensus.
- Identify future potential of products and get teams, customers and business network excited about it.
- Lead design and development teams to deliver high profile digital solutions and products.
- Define MVPs, manage product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles.
- Work closely with designers and engineers to define and drive product vision and lead.
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge, Technical Competencies Required for this role:
- Deep experience in digital product developmentand marketing
- Experience with designing creative, quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology.
- Experience of operating within a multi-channel/multi-region brand
- Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
- Demonstrates thought leadership and is able to influence at all levels in the organization.
- Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping and analytics
- Knowledge of Lead and Agile software development processes
- Expertise across all areas of digital acquisition marketing including PPC, SEO, Social, Content Marketing, Affiliate Marketing and funnel optimization.
Previous experience:
- 5+ years of total experience including 3+ years of experience in product development and marketing.
- Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree a plus.
- Experience of operating within a multi-channel/multi-region brand
- Knowledge of Lean and Agile software development processes
