Agile Product Owner

Roles and responsibilities

• Setting your team's goals, success metrics, and roadmap to align with Revolut’s mission
• Driving maximum impact for your product based on data analysis, market research, and company strategy
• Completely owning your team's products and features, from ideation, through development, to launch, growth, and maintenance
• Having technical discussions with engineers regarding approaches, requirements, etc.
• Collaborating with other stakeholders, such as FinCrime, Legal, and Security teams
  

What You'll Need

• 2+ years of experience working with a high-growth tech company or in banking/finance-related business areas (acquiring, payments, cryptocurrency, insurance, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience working on technical products (platforms, distributed systems, data science, machine learning, computer vision, robotics, etc.)
• 1 year of experience managing people (Product Owners at Revolut directly manage Engineering, Operations, and Design)
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• High analytical and technical acumen along with solid business sense that guides ROI-based prioritisation
• Experience formulating and driving a focused product vision, and owning the narrative with leadership, customers, and partners
• A bias towards action and bootstrapping major projects, rolling up your sleeves and being hands-on
• Experience developing and launching products from scratch
• The ability to provide insight and deliver measurable results for sophisticated products under ambiguous situations in a fast-paced environment

Desired candidate profile

• Vision and Strategy: Ability to define and articulate the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Backlog Management: Proficient in creating, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to maximize value delivery.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills to gather and balance input from various stakeholders, ensuring their needs are reflected in the product.

• User-Centric Mindset: Focus on understanding user needs and pain points through research and feedback to drive product improvements.

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and metrics to make informed decisions about product direction and features.

• Agile Methodologies: Deep understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and the role of a Product Owner within those frameworks.

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey the product vision, requirements, and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Decision-Making: Strong judgment to make tough trade-off decisions about feature prioritization and resource allocation.

• Technical Understanding: Basic knowledge of the technology stack and development processes to facilitate productive conversations with the development team.

• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues quickly and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.