Role: P roduct Owner - Expert
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Mission context
We are seeking an experienced Product Owner with a robust background in product management (preferred if experience in AI) and a proven track record of managing multiple complex products simultaneously.
The candidate will have at least 10 years of experience with part of it in bank industry.
The ideal Candidate would be at the same time a creative and a visionary while being also a planner with clear focus on delivery.
We are seeking a strategic leader who can provide expert guidance and direction to stakeholders, rather than simply executing tasks, and drive business outcomes through informed decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
· Oversee and manage several products in parallel, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
· Can build multiple short/medium/long term product vision for products in a Bank
· Can present product vision and other information in strategy consulting style PPT
· Used to collaborate with UX Designer
· Maintain a solution-oriented and hardcore delivery mindset, focusing on pragmatic and effective outcomes.
Agile Product Owner
Principal assignments
Experience
The Agile Product Owner represents both stakeholders and the voice of the customers capturing their expectations, preferences and aversions. Along with the Scrum Master and the Development Team he/she embodies the Scrum Team.
The Agile Product Owner is in charge of expressing and prioritizing the needs of the product using a Product Backlog.
The Agile Product Owner has to ensure the Development Team’s perfect understanding of the product and the whole consistency of each Sprint.
Design phase and project methodology:
build the product’s big picture including its roadmap and translate this picture towards the development team
clarify the need and draft the product’s key functional specifications according to the agile methodology
iteration planning and priorities definition to ensure the proper content delivery
defines the priorities and monitor the Product Backlog, thus he continuously prioritizes the key business needs
make sure that the different stakeholders become and stay aligned on the product to be delivered
Project follow-up and support:
initiate a priority management approach, ensure the product consistency and quality
actively participate into Scrum ceremonies (agile retrospectives, demo, test labs…)
is the decision maker or has the authority to arbitrate on delivered functionalities
conduct Sprints Backlog live adjustments and follow-up
Knowledge of the banking domain
Expertise in agile methodologies
Expertise in project and budget management
Sound knowledge of English as well as (at least) one local language.
Behavioural skills:
Ability to see the overall picture (helicopter view) - strategic thinking
Analytical mind – conceptual thinking
Negotiation and persuasion skills
Structured approach
Problem-solver
Quality-minded and eye for detail
Goal-oriented
Open to change
Leadership
The Product Owner represents and propagates the "Agile mindset" which implies:
Positive attitude and pragmatism
Thirst for knowledge: Agile is about learning and adapting. Knowledge sharing is key to success.
Goal of team success: Agile is about the success of the team, not individual success or heroic behavior. It is more important for the team to succeed than for the individual to have completed his/her tasks.
There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting actions according to the feedback, resulting in continuous improvement.
Beyond the roles: Agile teams are cross-functional. All required disciplines are represented in the team (analysis, development, testing, … ). However, although team members have a primary role representing a discipline, they are expected to take on other roles and contribute to other disciplines whenever it helps towards reaching the sprint goal.
