Product Owner

Job Profile Summary

The Product Owner (PO) works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines milestones and deliverables, and identifies opportunities and risks. Along all the team members, is responsible for development of the squad purpose. The squad cooperates with the product Tribes to develop the frictionless. Knows the customers process accordance with local legislation and regulations. PO is in charge to set priorities, manage internal and external stakeholders, solve impediments, help squad members in their day-to-day activities. In addition, PO is accountable for manage and deliver internal reports, optimize performance, and support the bank strategy. Position requires excellent lead and communication skills, problem solving, and data driven approach, an orientation to detail and process, ability to work and maintain composure under tight deadlines.

This position also demands ability to work collaboratively in multi-functional teams and cross-team.

Key Responsibilities

Work with various stakeholders to understand business value, market context and customer problems.

Document requirements for upcoming product/process releases assuring those needs are met and communicate progress/status clearly.

Build, prioritize, monitor, and maintain the squad backlog, prioritizing stories for each sprint;

Speed up decision making for the squad by ensuring features/user stories start with the right data and analysis;

Apply agile knowledge to identify, escalate, and remove squad impediments.

Work closely with the team, to create new and improved features for process owned by the squad

Define and track product and process metrics/KPIs on entire e2e value chain

Take care of the asset allocated on the squad in terms of IT Risk and IT Security

Key Capabilities/Experience

5+ years work experience in Product Management/Project Management within complex IT projects

Excellent data analysis skills

Strong knowledge of Italian and English

Strong verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)

Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders to define and handle product/process requirements & backlog

Knowledge of the tools, techniques and principles used in Lean-Agile development.

Creative minded with an ability to conceive interesting ideas for new content

Strong risk awareness

Result oriented

Excellence in execution