Product Owner

Virtusa; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Senior Product Owner for digital lending and consumer finance initiatives. You will own the product backlog, drive the roadmap with leadership, write BRDs and user stories, and partner with UX, risk, compliance, and operations to deliver mobile-first journeys.

This role requires 7-10 years of experience in digital banking environments, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to turn concepts into business cases and launches.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Product Owner in digital lending or consumer finance.
• Proven backlog management and Jira usage.
• Collaboration with UX, Risk, Compliance and business units.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritise the product backlog.
• Define product strategy and roadmaps with leadership.
• Write requirements, user stories, BRDs and acceptance criteria.
• Design mobile-first customer journeys in partnership with UX UI.
• Own funnel performance: starts, drop-offs, straight-through, disbursal conversion.
• Build and maintain KPI dashboards for board and ExCo level reporting.
• Build coalitions across risk, legal, compliance, operations, marketing and technology.

Skills

Digital Banking

Retail Loans

Stakeholder management

Functional consultant

Digital product advisory

Digital channels

Job description

Job Requirements

Senior Product Owner role

Skills

• Digital Banking
• Retail Loans
• Stakeholder management
• Functional consultant advsiing business on digital product
• Digital channels

Reports to Head of Digital banking- Consumer lending

Role

• Digital lending - consumer loans , retail loans, cards, origination
• Backlog management for product journey on jira
• liase with UX, Risk, compliance, Consumer lending business
• PO for the lending journeys - from concsept to business case through launch, hyper care.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog
• Product strategy and roadmap and agree with leadership
• Write requirements, USer stories, BRDs and acceptance criterion
• Design Mobile first customer journeys in partnership with UX UI
• Own funnel performance application starts, drop offs, straight though and disbursal conversion.
• Build and maintain KPI dashboard for board and Exco level reporting
• Build coalitions across risk, legal, compliance, operations, marketing and technology

Work Experience

7-10Years