Product Owner (CMPS)

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking a Product Owner to lead cross-functional squads focused on CMPS product capabilities, delivering digital channels for private and retail banking clients. The role emphasizes backlog prioritisation, stakeholder alignment, and driving agile technology projects from concept to implementation.

You will define and own the strategic digital product vision for the wealth management suite, coordinating with architects and business stakeholders to ensure usability, quality,

Qualifications

• Good understanding of wealth management products and processes.
• Experience with agile technology projects or product ownership is preferred.
• Ability to align product strategy with business goals and client needs.

Responsibilities

• Drive outcomes of cross-functional squads and prioritise product backlog to meet objectives and key results.
• Develop and maintain a vision for agile technology projects and communicate it to the scrum team.
• Define a strategic digital product vision and roadmap for the wealth management product suite, ensuring market relevance and regulatory compliance.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

As a Product Owner in our cross-functional squads, the candidate will drive the outcomes of the squad to deliver on their objectives and key results. You will build and prioritise the product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectation, prioritisation and overall product roadmap.

• The primary purpose of this position is to develop and transform Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) product capability to provide digital channels for both clients and internal users across Private Banking and Retail Banking.
• The Bank is aiming to grow product capability through digital and self-direct channels. This Product Owner (PO) role is to drive the agile technology projects to establish a robust price discovery and execution platform. It is also required to build system interface with upstream systems (e.g. client information check) and downstream systems (e.g. booking trades into core banking platforms) to streamline operation flow and improve users (including clients) experience and frontline productivity.
• As PO, you will develop and maintain a vision for agile technology projects and be responsible for communicating the vision to the scrum team. Be responsible for agile technology projects and features from concept to final implementation. In particular,
• have a good understanding of wealth management products, it's processes and relevance to clients.
• Define and own the strategic digital product vision and roadmap for the wealth management product suite.
• Align product strategy with business goals, market trends, and client needs.
• Develop a competitive product strategy across relevant asset classes (such as FX, equities, fixed income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, and insurance.)
• Monitor market dynamics and regulatory changes, ensuring products remain competitive and compliant.
• As PO you will work with architects, business stakeholders and development teams to ensure that business, quality and functional goals are met with each release. Be responsible for the design, usability, quality and delivery of agile technology projects and features.
• As the subject matter expert, this role is to determine business requirements, review technology project plans from the business perspective, and ensure new technology capabilities are embedded in business processes to deliver benefits. Ensure smooth execution on the ground, and communicate the changes delivered to relevant stakeholders including front office.

Key Responsibilities

As a Product Owner in our cross-functional squads, the candidate will drive the outcomes of the squad to deliver on their objectives and key results. You will build and prioritise the product backlog to achieve business goals and manage stakeholder relationships to align expectation, prioritisation and overall product roadmap.

Strategy

• The primary purpose of this position is to develop and transform Capital Markets Products & Solutions (CMPS) product capability to provide digital channels for both clients and internal users across Private Banking and Retail Banking.
• The Bank is aiming to grow product capability through digital and self-direct channels. This Product Owner (PO) role is to drive the agile technology projects to establish a robust price discovery and execution platform. It is also required to build system interface with upstream systems (e.g. client information check) and downstream systems (e.g. booking trades into core banking platforms) to streamline operation flow and improve users (including clients) experience and frontline productivity.
• As PO, you will develop and maintain a vision for agile technology projects and be responsible for communicating the vision to the scrum team. Be responsible for agile technology projects and features from concept to final implementation. In particular,
• have a good understanding of wealth management products, it's processes and relevance to clients.
• Define and own the strategic digital product vision and roadmap for the wealth management product suite.
• Align product strategy with business goals, market trends, and client needs.
• Develop a competitive product strategy across relevant asset classes (such as FX, equities, fixed income, structured products, OTC derivatives, funds, and insurance.)
• Monitor market dynamics and regulatory changes, ensuring products remain competitive and compliant.
• As PO you will work with architects, business stakeholders and development teams to ensure that business, quality and functional goals are met with each release. Be responsible for the design, usability, quality and delivery of agile technology projects and features.
• As the subject matter expert, this role is to determine business requirements, review technology project plans from the business perspective, and ensure new technology capabilities are embedded in business processes to deliver benefits. Ensure smooth execution on the ground, and communicate the changes delivered to relevant stakeholders including front office.

Business

• Review and understand key business policies and processes in Wealth Management in offering CMPS products and services to both private banking and retail banking clients. Identify critical pain-points and articulate how planned / in-flight technology projects will solve them.
• As Product Owner (PO), specialized in Digital platforms, should be familiar with the development of CMPS order management/ execution platforms and ensure that it is properly interfaced with multiple downstream booking systems.
• The PO should have strong technical knowhow to improve front office systems performance and expand product penetration according to the