Associate Product Owner

SILENT EIGHT PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading RegTech firm in Singapore is seeking an Associate Product Owner to enhance AI-based products combating financial crimes. The role involves working with stakeholders to maximize product value, managing the product backlog, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in product ownership, strong communication skills, and familiarity with Agile methodologies. Join us to make a significant impact in the financial sector!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical product ownership.
• 3+ years of experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• Experience in working with software development teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to understand business needs and refine product backlog.
• Communicate product vision and goals to stakeholders and teams.
• Manage backlog activities including prioritization and planning.

Skills

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

Product backlog management

Tools

Jira

Aha

Azure

Job description

Associate Product Owner

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At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We’re a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place!

Job Overview

As the Associate Product Owner you will be responsible for working with customers to understand their business needs, refining and prioritizing the product backlog to ensure those needs are met, and helping drive the overall direction of the product. Your objective will be to maximize product value.

• Utilize strong communication and influencing skills with internal stakeholders and customers to develop product roadmaps and ensure the product direction supports business objectives
• Liaise with business stakeholders, sales representatives and technical development teams to communicate product vision and goals
• Gather, analyze and document complex business requirements and translate them into clear and concise technical specifications
• Ensure that development teams are working on the most important product features
• Participate in backlog management activities: prioritization, technical refinement, iteration planning, and breaking down epics into manageable user stories
• Define acceptance criteria and manage story acceptance
• Communicate development progress and status to stakeholders and customers, and escalates risks as needed
• Conduct internal and external product trainings and support customer implementations
• Build expertise in the sanction screening and financial crime surveillance domains

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in technical product ownership
• 3+ years of experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Experience in working with software development teams
• Experience building product roadmaps and working in roadmap and requirements management systems such as Aha, Jira or Azure
• Experience with sanctions screening or AML transaction monitoring preferred