Senior Product Owner: Smart Goals at Old Mutual

​​Responsibilities:

• Define the Product Strategy, Visions and objectives, product roadmap.
• Understand the business goals and vision and translate this into a product strategy that meets and exceeds these goals.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to ensure delivery that meets the customer needs and enables the strategic intent.
• Works with the teams to break Features into stories, including agreeing acceptance criteria.
• Active involvement in certain team and program meetings: Feature writing (if required), PI planning, all team meetings such as Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement.
• Product Owner syncs and Program syncs on the program level (if required).
• Ensure alignment between work delivered and ultimate expectations as defined in the feature statements.
• Inputting into the vision and strategy.
• Write and prioritise features with acceptance criteria to help guide the team and align stakeholders. Long term as well as short term product roadmap.
• Understand and be actively involved in removing impediments to team performance that are raised by either the Scrum Master or team.
• Communicating risks effectively to stakeholders.
• Communicate and align with other Product Owners when inter-team dependencies and trade-offs are required to be solved.
• Make day to day decisions that will guide the team’s delivery.
• Maintaining and Prioritize team Product Backlog.
• Understand and use gamification to reward and promote interaction aimed at driving positive behaviours.
• Continuously evaluate the product based on user and stakeholder engagement, interaction and feedback.
• Management reporting of product performance at governance forums

Role Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 years as a Product Owner in an agile environment.
• Relevant IT or Business degree.
• Strong data visualisation expertise, customer engagement.
• Exposure to design and UX
• Working experience in the banking and financial services industry
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• Product Owner and Leading SAFe certification.
• Knowledge and experience in using GenAI to develop NBA Models whilst considering digital design and user experience.
• Knowledge and experience in using tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro, Confluence and TFS
• Knowledge and experience with typically used Agile techniques such as User Story mapping, ATDD, TDD, etc.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Clarity on delivering clear, prioritised stories with acceptance criteria.

Key Competencies & Skills:

• Strategic thinking – Ability to define and drive a vision for rewards partnerships.
• Commercial acumen – Strong negotiation and business development skills.
• Customer-centric mindset – Passionate about delivering value to customers through partnerships.
• Data-driven decision-making – Ability to leverage insights for continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder management – Strong ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Execution excellence – Ability to drive initiatives from concept to successful implementation.

Skills

Competencies

• Action Oriented
• Balances Stakeholders
• Business Insight
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality
• Develops Talent
• Drives Engagement
• Drives Results
• Education

Closing Date

• 27 June 2025