Product Owner

Purpose

• Represent the business when capturing and grooming requirement, ensuring outcomes are aligned to both short term and strategic goals.
• Maximize the value being delivered by ensuring all features are aligned to business value.
• Manage/Refine the backlog of the team through prioritization and decision making.
• Communicate updates to stakeholders and the wider community
• Works within constraints by pivoting and applying tradeoffs
• Outline the requirements to develop the products
• Supports Developers, Analysts and Quality Engineers in understanding the product needs, so they can deliver on their commitments

Experience

• A strong background with 15-18 years of experience and an in-depth understanding of Merchants and/or Cards Payments products (operations, processes, end users, customers, regulations)
• Demonstrable leadership experience, including setting team priorities, influencing stakeholders, leading workshops, in a co-located cross functional business and IT team through the discovery, development and operational usage stages of product development
• Creativity and simplifying complex processes and issues, problem solving and process analysis
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment and familiarity
• Ability to communicate a product vision to key stakeholders and teams, developing it into a shaped backlog of key features, user stories and goals for individual sprints
• Ability to work closely with key stakeholders and build collaborative partnerships whilst sometimes saying no
• Proven analytical skills and evidence-based decision making
• Previous experience as a Product Owner or Senior delivery leadership role in a relevant domain.

Essential capabilities

• Ensures Accountability
• Collaborates
• Courage
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Plans and Aligns
• Situational Adaptability

Other capabilities

• Cost and risk management
• Strong leadership
• Strategy

Qualification Requirements

• Tertiary education