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Founded in April 2004, Intelligent Debt Management (IDM Group), has established itself as South Africa’s leading and largest debt management company. IDM operates from a centralised office in Cape Town, South Africa, from which more than 350 employees service clients nationally. IDM offers comprehensive advice and a host of highly effective debt relief...
Description:
IDM is growing quickly and needs a Product Owner to drive the development pipeline of Sanlam Credit Solutions platform.
We are looking for an intelligent and creative individual to join the IDM team. This individual will be responsible for the strategic and practical management of the platform as it evolves and becomes an industry leader in the fintech space.
What does IDM offer its employees?
Hybrid (onsite and remote) work environment
Competitive packages, including medical and RA contributions
A value and purpose-driven working culture
Bursary program and encouragement to pursue future studies
Merrit based promotions in a fast-growing company
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.
Assess value, develops cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that is 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 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 in understanding of Agile practices, new technology opportunities, and other new trends.
Requirements
Minimum requirements:
Degree in relevant areas. Commerce, IT, Data, Project Management, Engineering, etc.
5 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
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