The Product Owner represents the voice of the customer at the squad level, maintaining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure that the squad is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality to all customers. The Product Owner is responsible for leading squads to ensure timelines are met, ensuring deliverables are aligned with Business requirements / quality standards, ensuring timely day-to-day decisions are made and roadblocks are escalated to Senior Management as required
Requirements
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Own the vision and backlog for a particular journey; align with DVP Digital Customer Journey & Product Lead, Business Analysts on backlog
Understand key business objectives and strategy of the product
Work with Business Analysts to ensure that they are engaged and supportive of direction
Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities. Track progress towards the release of a product. Gathers, manages, and prioritizes product backlog
Create user stories, acceptance criteria, and guide development of customer journeys, experience and design of product features
Ensure that Project deliverables are of the desired quality and have appropriate endorsements; Ensure that all submissions to committees are of the right quality and are timely
Check product is aligned with business needs / requirements.
Act as the link between squads and Business.
Identify potential roadblocks and mitigating actions.
Assist with prioritization of work / time / resources.
Ensure the squads are fully up to date with latest context and specific tasks
Assess business value and prioritize all stories to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that align with strategy
Ensure stories clearly communicate customer / stakeholder needs to the squad; work with team to clarify stories as necessary
Understand and support inter-team dependencies, and escalate issues as needed
With squad, set and communicate release date and scope
Lead squad events (e.g. daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review) and attend standups with other Product Owners
Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends
Selectively take on process design and analytics roles to fill in for a business analyst role as required
Lead a cross-functional team consisting of NBK resources as well as external vendors / consultants
Educational Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor's degree holder in related field , Master's is a plus
8 or more years of experience in a product strategy role or requirements intake role (e.g. business analyst); additional business or technical training may be required
5 or more years of experience managing a team
Background in Digital Banking and/or customer experience
Experience with agile development strongly preferred; agile certification a plus
Prior exposure to the Financial Services industry / payments is a plus
Competencies
Knowledge and understanding of Financial Services industry (specifically consumer / retail banking)
Outstanding communication, presentation and leadership skills
Ability to manage large-scale initiatives and effectively partner with stakeholders across business and technical teams
Strong understanding of customer needs and business strategy
Ability to use analysis to prioritize business value
Ability to synthesize data to form a story and align information to contrast or compare to industry perspective and historical business trends
Deep understanding and experience with Agile methodologies
Knowledge and understanding of online authentication, authorization, fraud, or security
Experience with a definition of minimum marketable features and minimum viable products
