Product Owner

About EQ:

Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders.

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Description: -

The Product Owner works closely with the Product Manager to understand and deliver the strategic roadmap for the product. They will work with the development team and supporting roles to break that roadmap down into prioritised requirements. Working with support from the Product Manager they will ensure that the development team has a clear understanding of the product/platform vision and goals. They oversee product build progress, answering queries and helping solve impediments to the delivery. The role is part of our squad structure and can be aligned to any product or platform in SS, RS or Common Services.

Professional Responsibilities:

• Define the product features and conduct requirements analysis/design, as well as needs assessment

• Contribute to defining product vision, goals, success measures and roadmap for the team

• Accountable for the prioritisation of user stories and the delivery of the final product.

• Ensure alignment to the roadmap and strategic objectives set by the Product Line

• Leverage working knowledge of business systems, broader industry requirements, and practical implications of enhancements to support product priorities and integration withoverall architecture platforms

• Undertake comprehensive analysis and detailed user requirements for features by exploring potential solutions, improvements to end-to-end customer experiences, and impactson business process

• Measure team performance and identity risks and blockers and implement strategies to reduce risk and remove blockers as appropriate Use both qualitative and quantitative research to assess the value of products and features in line with proposition priorities.

• Document requirements / user stories; gather input from a variety of internal stakeholders and external resources/stakeholders Engage legal, risk, compliance, information security, enterprise architecture and other key stakeholders to ensure adherence to internal controls and policies throughout the PDLC Assimilate complex detailed problems and translate them into easily digestible content or stories for cross-functional team members

• Update stakeholders and teams on the performance of products and use data to inform product recommendations and decisions

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to drive the vision for specific product areas

• Understand what KPIs are most valuable to the business and deliver measurable impact on them

Relevant Experience:

• Experience working within a software or product development organization preferred although not required.

• Experience working within a financial organization preferred although not required.

• Product Ownership or similar role experience.

• Proven experience of interfacing with cross-functional teams.

Technical Skills and Qualities, at Advanced Level:

• Business analysis

• Writing user stories

• Backlog prioritisation

• Defining acceptance criteria

• User journey & process mapping

• Usability testing

• Agile ways of working

• Agile metrics

• Compliance & Governance stewardship

• Success metrics & OKRs

• JIRA, ADO or similar.

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• Business related certification expense reimbursement

• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents

• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift

• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC