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Chief Product Owner (Mobile Banking)

 


Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Industry: Bank
Salary (net):  5000 - 7000 EUR
Relocation: Yes

Work Type: Full-time, on-site

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Our client is Bank Respublika was established in 1992 and is one of the five leading banks in Azerbaijan. The bank's shareholders include Germany's largest financial institution - Sparkassen International Development Trust (a member of the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe financial group). The bank has one of the highest international ratings in the banking sector of Azerbaijan - a rating of "B3" with a "Positive" outlook from Moody's. Currently, they are looking for a Product Owner (Mobile Banking) to join their office in Baku.

 

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Requirements:

  • Must have proven experience as a Chief Product Owner within a Financial Services environment, ideally within Mobile Banking, payment systems environment and B2C/B2B;

  • Strong understanding of business priorities and requirements;

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills are required;

  • Any prior understanding or exposure to big data tools and technologies would be beneficial;

  • Sound understanding of application development process and technologies;

  • Experience working in an Agile environment;

  • ave experience building solutions for end customers and managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its life cycle;

  • Analytical skills will also be viewed as a plus, especially in understanding data (e.g. Excel, Python, SQL);

  • Degree-level education, ideally in a STEM subject or similar.

 

Role:

  • Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner;

  • Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and creating requirements;

  • Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product;

  • Define product vision, road map and growth opportunities;

  • Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy;

  • Work closely with the Product Management team (BA, marketing, design and etc.) to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI;

  • Lead the planning of product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities;

  • Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals;

  • Research and analyze the market, the users, and the road map for the product;

  • Follow our competitors and the industry;

  • Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Industry and market research, including hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintaining technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses;

  • Define product roadmap and specification requirements;

  • Conduct feasibility studies & write business plans;

  • Lead product design, development and release process for assigned products;

  • Support initial product roll-outs and integration;

  • Create detailed use cases, business requirements, and marketing requirements; - with BA

  • Ensure adequate throughput of user stories to the development team; - scrum master

  • Contribute towards QA test cases and be an active participant in sprints, demos and tests;

  • Write/edit user manual, sales support documentation, proposal templates and other collateral; PO and QA

  • Draft contract templates in conjunction with the legal team.

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To apply, please send your updated CV in English or a link to your LinkedIn profile to fuad.vazirov@partnerstree.com** and include the position title in the subject field. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

 

* The list of requirements, duties, and benefits is not exhaustive but is merely the most accurate list for the current job provided by the Employer.

 

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