Product Owner at Intelligent Debt Management

What's in it for you?

• Being South Africa’s largest company of its kind – IDM is continuously growing, with no signs of stopping.
• One of our core values is ‘growing people’ and we take that very seriously. We have internal learning opportunities to better our people, and leaders who are experts in their fields and freely impart knowledge and are open to new ideas. As one of our people said, “you can speak to anyone here. Your rank doesn’t matter. You are listened to.” Our culture is one of collaboration, diversity, and helpfulness. That goes for our people internally and how we deal with our clients.
• At IDM, you can play a part in educating and assisting real South Africans get out of tough financial situations. You can make a difference with the work you do. Our people believe this too – one said, “I wake up each day knowing I am going to make a difference.”

Other key benefits:

• We make sure our employees are mentally and physically healthy with Healthy Together campaigns throughout the year.
• We offer various rewards and awards as tokens of recognition for hard work.
• We have a vibrant office in a lively part of the city, meaning you have easy access to stores and outlets if you need.
• We offer company benefits – like subsidized lunches, a half day off on your birthday, medical aid, retirement annuity, and further study opportunities should you meet relevant requirements.
• We have a culture of growth, meaning you have access to move both upwards or across in the business if you want to.

Key responsibilities:

• Work with internal and external customers to analyse needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Owns the product roadmap.
• Develop scope and define backlog items (epic/features/user stories) that guide the Agile software development team.
• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, and complete trade-off analysis to stay on track toward business deliverable commitments.
• Draft key objectives and results, and strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product.
• Accountable for the created product(s), delivering in the product model, and communicating the product needs with business partners.
• Asses value develops cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Identifies and helps the client understand the business model, value, and value proposition.
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation.
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for the product features so they are clearly understood by the development teams.
• Represents the team in front of stakeholders, clients, or users.
• Work closely with product management and senior management in order to create a product that fits the company portfolio.
• Research and analyze the market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
• Follow our competitors and the industry
• Increase an understanding of Agile practices, new technology opportunities, and other new trends.

Minimum requirements:

• Degree in relevant areas. Commerce, IT, Data, Project Management, Engineering, etc.
• 3 to 15 years of experience in the areas of product management, product ownership and/or development.
• Understanding of different technology platforms, their features and being able to work with solution architects/engineering leads and write detailed product requirement documents, manage future roadmaps and deliverables 
• Ability to function with a high degree of autonomy 
• Able to continuously balance between the customer and commercial needs
• Customer experience design of digital products and services
• Analytics/AB/multivariate testing and related tools 
• Data-driven decision making 

Advantageous requirements:

• 5 years experience in data-intensive or fintech industries.
• Experience with coding languages
• Experience with project management systems like Jira.
• Worked with credit or transactional data.
• Experience in agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Design and Behavioural Driven Design