Senior Product Owner

at  Manulife

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Working in a fast-paced, changing environment where every day brings something new and innovative ideas are encouraged to help our customers reach their financial dreams and aspirations. The Manulife Bank Delivery team is seeking a passionate Product Owner who can drive our digital banking transformation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business and customer needs into innovative digital banking solutions. Leverage your technical background to lead product development, ensuring alignment with our digital strategy and customer needs. The Product Owner contributes to the realization of Value Stream strategy, vision, and OKRs by aligning and prioritizing business goals with actionable results.

Key Accountabilities :

• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap to the squad, stakeholders, and technology partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and prioritize product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with the squads and FinTech partners to ensure timely delivery of product features and improvements.
• Lead PI Planning activities ensuring prioritized features are refined and sized to deliver on commitments.
• Leverage your deep technology background to lead the squad members, with a focus on leveraging technology for creative problem solving
• Possess a foundational understanding of the technologies being used by the engineering team such as APIs, front end applications and vendor integrations for effective communication and decision making, Experiences in leveraging technology to tackle business problems
• Ability to understand the tradeoffs between a technical target state and near-term deliverables
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify customer needs, market trends, and competitive landscape.
• Define and supervise key product metrics and KPIs to measure product success and identify areas for improvement.
• Lead and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it aligns with the product vision and business goals.
• Engage with team members to gather feedback and ensure alignment on product priorities and direction.
• Identify trade-offs to ensure alignment on priorities between the team and partners
• Lead product demonstrations, gather feedback, and iterate on product features and functionality.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager
• 5+ years of experience in the digital banking industry
• Strong knowledge of digital banking platforms, FinTech solutions, mobile/web banking apps
• Degree in computer science, information technology or business
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies preferably in SAFe
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence

Please refer the Job description for details