Old Mutual
Job Description
The empowered lead role within the Digital & Data team; the Product Owner is responsible for the management of the entire product development process within the organization and will collaborate with various teams to ensure the delivery of the agreed capabilities aligned with Old Mutual’s digital transformation journey. They’ll research and determine the clients’ needs to determine which features to include on products and will pitch ideas for product features to stakeholders. The candidate will act as the primary contact between the scrum teams, product development departments and key stakeholders.
After product completion, the Product Owner will conduct a final review and submit their approval before releasing the product to clients.
To be successful in this role, you should be able to identify user needs and work with cross-functional teams to manage product releases.
Collaborating with business units, prospective users, and customers to better understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into product requirements.
Development and implementation of user stories and journeys and definition acceptance criteria
Defining the vision for the Business Unit’s product
Creating a product roadmap based on this vision
Clearly articulating and communicating platform/feature roadmap to stakeholders.
Identifying, creating, and communicating business benefits and tracking and reporting on progress.
Active involvement in team and program meetings, feature writing (if required), Product Increments (PI) planning, all team sessions, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, sprint planning and backlog refinement, Product Owner syncs, and Program syncs on the program level (if required).
Work closely with the Scrum Master to ensure that all the prerequisites for PI planning are completed and teams are prepared in advance for the PI planning sessions.
Driving iterative releases/business value delivery through Product Increments (PI).
Ensuring alignment between work delivered and business expectations as defined in the feature statements.
Managing the product backlogs and prioritizing them based on PI Plans and upon change requirements
Managing and overseeing all stages of product creation including design and development.
Work experience as a Product Owner or similar role in product management
Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc
SAFe Product Owner certification a plus
Hands-on experience managing all stages of the product life cycle
Technical background with knowledge of software development and web technologies
Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills
Working experience within SAFe/scaled Agile teams.
Relevant work experience in financial services/banking/fintech is preferred, another tech i.e., the telco will be considered.
Set sprint goals and write acceptance tests.
Plan releases and upgrades
Monitoring and evaluating product progress at each stage of the process.
Participating in Scrum meetings and product sprints
Understanding and being actively involved in removing impediments to team performance that are raised by either the Scrum Master or the team.
Incorporate feature requests into a product roadmap.
Follow the progress of work and address production issues during sprints.
Analyze preferences and requests of end users.
Liaising with the product team and end-users to deliver updates.
Refine our agile methodology based on results and client feedback.
Keep track of industry trends to understand customers and business needs and ensure execution of the respective plans.
Communicating and aligning with other Product Owners when inter-team dependencies and trade-offs are required to be solved.
Making day-to-day decisions that will guide and improve the team’s delivery.
Defining the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for different use cases/scenarios of solutions including backlog grooming.
They are looking for opportunities to innovate within their scope of work to ensure that proposed solutions can compete in the market.
Ensuring that platforms/features available to customers perform as defined in the relevant SLAs and non-functional requirements.
Effectively communicate risks to stakeholders.
Working closely with the team to prepare for and lead demos to stakeholders.
Working with the team to ensure that all production issues and escalations are closed out timeously.
Actively collaborating with the adoption team to drive active engagement targets linked to work in their space.
Reporting and tracking customer experience and performance measures for the platform/feature.
Actively track customer and platform measures and ensure that issues are remediated through the continuous delivery process. Use data from multiple sources to be able to prioritize changes
Be able to respond quickly to customer feedback by driving these changes with the teams
Work across multiple teams to coordinate delivery efforts and business outcomes.
Skills
Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, Backlog Refinement, Business, Communication, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Daily Scrum, Design, Hands on Work, Management Reporting, Patient Outcomes, People Management, Performance Measurement, Prioritization, Problem Solving, Process Development (PD), Product Development, Product Development Lifecycle, Product Roadmapping, Researching, Strategic Planning, Teamwork, Technical Knowledge
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science (BCoSc): Computer and Information Science (Required)
Closing Date
19 April 2023