Senior Product Associate- Banking Payments

Job responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, analytics, business, and engineering partners to lead and develop product and design strategies.
• Define, prioritize, and clarify user stories in coordination with other Product Managers, engineering leads, and the leadership team.
• Work with business stakeholders and the India engineering team to maintain a healthy backlog and provide visibility across the enterprise, including at the executive level.
• Collaborate with Agility Leads to run successful Release Planning and Sprint Planning sessions, as well as Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Conduct pre-release reviews, including regression testing and quality assurance, to certify releases as production-ready, along with production validation.

• Work closely with Product leads, developers, operations, and production management teams to research and resolve issues or defects that impact the customer experience.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience in product, financial services, technology, project management, or other relevant fields.
• Experience working on projects that involve interaction with various stakeholders and technology within a financial domain.
• Understanding of development processes, database usage, and microservices (e.g., Kafka, APIs).
• Demonstrable experience as an interface between business and technical teams.
• Agile project management experience, including proficiency in agile project management tools (i.e., JIRA Align, JIRA, Confluence, Lucid etc.).
• Self-starter with a mindset focused on problem management/resolution and continuous improvement.
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written) for engaging with business and technical stakeholders and management.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills