Product Owner at Intelligent Debt Management

What does IDM offer its employees:

• Hybrid (onsite and remote) work environment
• Competitive packages, including medical and RA contributions
• A values and purpose driven working culture
• Bursary program and encouragement to pursue future studies
• Merrit based promotions in a fast-growing company

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

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, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments.
• Draft key objectives and results, 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, develop 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 help 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 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 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.