Product Owner

The Role Responsibilities
About the Role

• If tackling complex challenges excites you, then join our team where you will get to collaborate and work on solutions across business and functions, to drive transformation and deliver better experiences to our customers. We constantly strive to reduce time-to-market and streamline our processes. We follow agile methodology and work to embed an improvement habit across the bank.
  We are looking for a Product Owner, who will be managing Retail Partnership implementation, owning product backlog and is a key member of the squad collaborating with Fintech partners and various internal Business stakeholders. Is accountable for the successful delivery of the Partnership build & platform initiatives
  Roles & Responsibilities
• Develop and own the vision of the squad and holds accountability for delivering on Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
• Responsible for creating, sizing and prioritizing user stories for the squad to deliver on daily basis.
• Responsible for maintaining a formal data structures and data architecture; this can include data modeling, data definitions (logical, physical, and conceptual), data flow diagrams and data dictionaries.
• Defines product requirements and makes sure they are complete, integral and consistent.
• Contributes to squad product development to the extent of her or his competence
• Define squad objectives and scope, taking into account resource constraints and long-term vision of the squad.
• Manages relationships and synchronizes it with the Hive Lead, Chapter Lead and other Product Owners in Squads responsible for related Partnerships & products to align on roadmaps, priorities and dependencies
• Identifies, assesses, monitors, controls and mitigates risks to the Partnership project(s); effectively and collaboratively resolving them
• Provides thought leadership and brings subject matter expertise to design and recommend appropriate analytical solution
• Engage relevant stakeholders to be involved and align their timelines to deliver.
• Senior stakeholder management and the ability to effectively communicate architecture and non-functional requirements
• Knowledge on API services is preferred.
• Familiar with Agile methodologies and practices

Squad and Backlog management

• Build and prioritize Squad backlog in terms of user stories to achieve business goals, continuously keep the backlog up to date.
• Understand and document functional and technical requirements, user stories, and acceptance scenarios.
• Holds regular meetings to update product backlog and ensure requirements are correctly understood.
• Participate in planning of the Squad's sprint to reaffirm priorities and clarify the requirements.
• Interact with other Squads and hives in synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks.
• Support the team through the process of clarifying requirements and delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Functional support to the testing teams by preparing test scenarios and participate in system testing before releases to the customer.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank; this includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively & collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct & compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Hive members and management
• Group, Region & Country stakeholders at mid & senior level

Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for talented individuals who can be effective leaders with functional and operational expertise. Candidate must be a strong communicator who builds trust-based relationships within the squad and amongst stakeholders. If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we'd love to hear from you:

• Demonstrable experience in finance and accounting is a must for this role. Formal education in finance/accounting at a tertiary level such as MBA(Finance), CFA, etc. is preferred.
• 10+ years' experience and knowledge in Consumer / Retail Banking.
• 3+ years in Agile on a similar role, strong skills of maintaining and prioritizing a backlog.
• Strong communication skills to synchronize tasks, clarify requirements and delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Ability to present updates to senior management on progress, key risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and constraints, seeks their support to remove roadblocks.
• Understanding of industry trends and client needs, ability to create a value proposition and a squad vision.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering objectives.
• Previously defined product requirements and development.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Relevant agile certification is a plus.
• Strong prioritization and analytical skills to manage backlog.
• Good to have knowledge of design thinking frameworks and customer journeys.

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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