Product Owner - Financial Edtech Platform

Be part of a stock market playground where explorers can learn, share and earn through virtual learning games! Read on to know more.

Our client a social investment platform, where they are providing more than 85000 users with quality research material based on stocks from 9 major Stock-Exchanges in the world. They create a personal trading account with virtual currency apart from giving access to real market data and major tools to understand and analyse the investment patterns and ideas of the best investors.

Even though the account is not charged, the users can reap the benefits of various online competitions and scholarships to get an edge in their career. Through this platform, users can earn as well as get jobs on basis of their Global Trading Course. Founded by an Investment veteran with phenomenal entrepreneurial and tech knowledge, the 7-year-old team based out of Bengaluru and Singapore are creating upgraded learners and investors of the future.

As a Product Owner, you will lead a team of engineers and designers to envision, prioritize and build digital products and services. Your mission is to work closely with business sponsors, users and customers to identify key pain points and to collaboratively design and build solutions that delight the end-user.

What you will do -

- Working with Design Lead, Service designers, Banking Product Managers, UI/UX Designers and Developers to create unique and eye catching user stories that facilitate the capture of business impact (e.g., conversion, customer loyalty and satisfaction, employee engagement, and productivity).

- Taking End-to-end ownership of the entire value chain from ideation to release and lifecycle management

- Identifying KPIs and using them as a cornerstone for team focus and priorities

- Working closely with designers and engineers to define and drive product vision and distill a product roadmap

- Synthesising diverse perspectives to make quick decisions

- Refining product concepts derived from existing customer pain points or jobs to be done into valuable and usable products or services

- Leading design and development teams to deliver high profile digital solutions and products that are fit for purpose and desirable in the market

- Defining MVPs, managing product backlog priorities, and strategically de-scope to achieve rapid feedback cycles

- Creating A/B testing backlogs for rapid iteration on potential product improvements

- Gaining an in-depth understanding of customers and users, gathering key insights that will shape the digital experience

- Managing expectations with business sponsors and company executives

- Managing cross-functional relationships with emphasis on decision-making

- Identifying future potential and opportunity space for your product and get your teams, customers and business network excited about it

What you need to have:

- Strong product intuition and user empathy

- Experience working in a dynamic, diverse environment where diver perspectives are respected and considered for creative solutions to difficult problems

- Experience with designing creative, quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology

- Experience of operating within a multi-channel/multi-region brand

- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and motivate them to go the extra mile

- Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence

- Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping and analytics

- Expertise in Lean and Agile software development

- Demonstrate ability to lead and inspire even in uncertain circumstances

- Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels of the organization

Education: Degree in Computer science or equivalent

- 2-3 years of User Story experience in Digital Environment (E-commerce, Web apps, Mobile Apps)

- Strong experience using tools such as AzureDevOps, Jira, etc.

- Experience with working in Agile environment is an advantage