Technical Product Owner

Ezypay; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical Product Owner to bridge the gap between technical and business aspects of product development. This role involves defining product goals, managing the backlog, and collaborating closely with engineering and business teams. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, stakeholder management experience, and a solid understanding of the payments industry. Join a dynamic and fun team that values diverse perspectives and fosters innovation in a challenging technical environment. If you're passionate about product development and want to make a significant impact, this opportunity awaits you.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Work-life balance

Gym subsidies

Casual Dress Code

Fun team environment

Dynamic technical environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years in product development as a product owner or business analyst.
• Strong understanding of the payments industry and Agile processes.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the product backlog for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and goals.
• Drive backlog refinement sessions for technical planning.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Analytical Skills

Planning Skills

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Finance

Tools

Agile Development Tools

Job description

The Role

The Technical Product Owner is responsible for closing the gap between the technical and the business side of our product development. You are responsible to develop and communicate the product goals, create and clearly communicate product backlog items, and order the backlog to maximize business value. You will have a combination of analytical, stakeholder management and strong planning skills. Ideally, you’ll have expert knowledge in the payments industry.

Main Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Senior Product Manager to understand the business strategy and deliver approved features and capabilities in the platform.
• Create, maintain, and refine the product backlog for your engineering team.
• Elaborate approved features into clear and complete epics and user stories following the Agile Scrum methodology.
• Work with the Business Analysts to breakdown business epics, document stories, design details and acceptance criteria.
• Create product requirements documents to ensure the team understands the goals and priorities as well as the technical requirements for each project.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Lead to estimate time frames and quality and quantity of resources required to implement projects.
• Drive backlog refinement sessions to prepare business epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, ensuring all requirements are well understood by the Product Development Team.
• Own the delivery of the Quarterly Release Plan for your team, prioritizing feature delivery against defects and technical debt reduction.
• Act as an escalation point for your team to clarify requirements, elaborate on stakeholder needs, and communicate the business goals.
• Assist with product acceptance testing and provide business context around minimum acceptable quality.

Minimum Requirements

• A bachelor's degree focused on business, finance, or requisite industry experience.
• 3+ years in a product development function as a product owner, business analyst or in a technical capability with good domain-level understanding of the payments industry.
• Proven ability to engage with engineers, product managers, and business analysts in a constructive and collaborative relationship.
• Experience within the Payments industry is an advantage.
• Experience in Agile development process, framework, and tools.

Diverse Perspectives

We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, educational backgrounds, cultures, and work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product teams.

Benefits

• A great place to work.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements and work-life balance.
• A fun team environment.
• A dynamic and challenging technical environment.
• Gym subsidies.
• Casual Dress Code.