Product Manager (Fintech)

Job Summary:

Our Mission is to Simplify Life. We are looking to Simplify and automate complex decision-making for customer-centric industries, like Utilities, Financial Services, Logistics, and commerce, that drive the world's economies and you have the chance to join the revolution. We are trying to solve huge challenges in today's enterprise that are directly impacting the employee and customer experience.

The Product Manager (Banking) is responsible for developing products by identifying potential initiatives, conducting market research, generating product epics, time-integrated plans for development, and designing product strategies aligned with the client's business goals. You will partner with seasoned teams to plan, drive, and execute key product initiatives that cover multiple features. Oversee a group of product owners that create banking products and ensure their success during the program execution.

Job Responsibilities:

Product Strategy and Client Engagements:

• Developing and implementing effective banking products based on Avertra's modules and platform.
• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and client needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Avertra customers with an unparalleled shopping experience.
• Collaborate directly with customers, Business stakeholders, and Portfolio Product manager to understand the desired outcomes.
• Partners with account executives to understand client needs and assists in the creation of business account plans.
• Owns the creation of Statement of work for new clients.
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners.
• Define the Product Vision and Roadmaps and align them to the portfolio outcomes.
• Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the program backlog based on learnings.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize the Program backlog.
• Define release planning with the PO collaboration.
• Lead the Product increments planning.
• Develop and analyze the highest-priority epics and let them ready for future sprints.
• Make System demos for key stakeholders.
• Ensures that the program delivers tangible business value.
• Maintains constant synergy between product, Engineering, and X and Insights leaders.
• Ensures that releases meet a wide range of customer needs.
• Defining the value of solutions within the enterprise context and tracking it to ensure business goals are achieved.
• Synchronize all the POs within the program.
• Leads the continuous exploration process.
• Conduct end-user research to help identify feature detail and help determine Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class.
• Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at program level and in all formats the product's strategy which is used to prioritize short-term action.
• Ensure product is aligned with client, stakeholder, and end-user priorities to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Formulates tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing.
• Creates, prioritizes, and accepts features; incorporates them into release planning.
• Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis.
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert.
• May take on the role of Product Owner on one or more sub-teams (if needed).
• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders.

Delivery and Program Management:

• Owns program Financials and budget (Program margin maintenance, invoices, billing, etc).
• Leads the overall program, coordinating activities within the program to keep it on track.
• Guides the Product Owners through negotiating functional dependencies.
• Delivery of PM/PO artifacts aligned with the Avertra methodology.
• Monitor and report on delivery KPIs and SLAs.
• Achieving Program KPIs.
• Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements at program levels.
• Negotiate capacity allocations for the program execution.
• Documents, reviews, and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
• Coordinates the activities within a large delivery team (program).
• Collaborates with Product Owners to allocate and organize work amongst sub-teams.
• Collaborates with Architecture Owners to negotiate technical dependencies.

Team and People Management:

• Oversee a group of product owners that create banking products and ensure their success after the product launch.
• Regularly works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand the next steps.
• Manages cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute product strategy.
• Provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience.
• Mentoring people where needed.
• Program onboarding & off-boarding.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to work with remote teams.
• Ability to manage tough clients and stakeholders.
• Product Management Mindset.
• Project Management Skills.
• Planning and Pricing knowledge.
• Agile Mindset.
• People Management.
• Requirements Analysis.
• Financial Planning and Strategy.

Skills

Needed Competencies:

• Strategist and tenacious in delivery.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative mindset.
• A well-organized team player.
• Quality-Based Thinking.
• Great written and verbal communication skills.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Time management.
• Leadership.
• Negotiation.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science, Engineering, technology, business, management information systems, economics
• Agile certification from a reputable methodology provider (Scrum Alliance, SAFe)

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a software Product Owner, Product Manager
• 3+ years in the Banking industry
• 3+ years in leadership
• 3+ years of working knowledge of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver software solutions

Preferences:

• Certified SCRUM Product Owner (CSPO)
• Certified Agile Project Management (Or similar)

Travel:

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Depending on project commitments

Work Schedule:

Middle east working hours preferred

Benefits

What can we promise you:

• You’ll join a global family of awesome, passionate people that are working together to build a sustainable, scalable ecosystem committed to using logic to create a better experience.
• We want you to help us become better. You will be empowered to drive change and innovate.
• That we will invest in you. We will give you the opportunity to master your domain and drive excellence.

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