Product Owner

Who are we? 

The fintech startup working on the first large-scale e-wallet in region. We aim to provide people with simple and convenient alternative to cash.

Role Description

A Product Owner creates product roadmap and guides the team’s effort ensuring value for customer and alignment with the overall product strategy. Product owner has a deep understanding of the target market & fintech industry. A Product Owner manages dependencies with other internal teams and external partners. PO works closely within their team to ensure business value and user feedback is translated into new features. Product owner is accountable for specific business KPIs in-line with key value drivers of the business

Responsibilities

• Sets ambitious and clear product vision and communicates it effectively to stakeholders, the team, and other members
• Closely collaborates with stakeholders to ensure product roadmap aligns with product strategy, mission, and vision
• Accountable for product specific KPIs once product is launched and for regular communication of KPIs to key stakeholders
• Utilizes market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories; maintains a backlog 3 to 4 sprints ahead of the team
• Works closely with CPO to establish each product’s business value proposition
• Facilitates product release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos
• Works onsite with the product team on daily basis to navigate them to deliver most valuable solution
• Integrates product discovery activities into product requirements to eliminate product risks and enhance user satisfaction

Experience, Competencies and Skills Required

• 2+ years in this role working with cross-functional teams to deliver digital payment solutions
• Experience with launching digital products from 0
• Ready to take full responsibility for decision-making and results of product implementation
• Strong communication skills with comfort in speaking with business stakeholders
• Ability to explain complex product solutions in simple terms
• Experience in developing product vision, strategy and product roadmap based on research, hypothesis testing and, data and current market position
• Knowledge on how to identify and track product metrics and make product decisions backed up by data
• Knowledge how to research market needs and have conducted customer interviews, surveys, segmentation, usability tests and competitive analysis more than once
• You know how to find a common language with the team, involve the team in the creation and improvement of the product
• Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas – loves and embraces change
• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust
• Not afraid to “roll up the sleeves” and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn – pushes teams to do the same
• Previous experience with agile is an advantage
• Higher education
• Advance English, fluent Russian