Product Owner, Voice & Virtual

Standard Chartered; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank seeks a dedicated Product Owner (PO) to lead a squad responsible for enhancing customer experience through effective backlog management and stakeholder collaboration. The ideal candidate will possess strong Agile expertise and a customer-centric mindset, ensuring product solutions align with business goals and strategy. Join a dynamic team to drive meaningful change and impact in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support programs

Continuous learning culture and development opportunities

Competitive salary and benefits

Time-off policies including sabbaticals

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge on Contact Centre assisted platform including WFM, QM and CTI.
• Customer experience centric with strong stakeholder management skill.
• Fast learner with understanding of business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the backlog priorities for the squad.
• Define product requirements that fulfill business objectives.
• Develop and own the vision of the squad while holding accountability for delivery on OKRs.

Skills

Stakeholders Management

Client Experience Management

Agile Methodology

Project Management

Financial planning

Education

Agile methodology training certified

Project management certified

Job description

Job Summary

• The PO is dedicated 100% to the Squad and prioritizes activities of the squad. They own and maintain the backlog and backlog priorities, ensuring the Squad knows what to work on, and when. Through their connection to the Customer, the PO is also the owner of User Stories and the custodian of 'requirements' and Acceptance Criteria to ensure Stories are completed as desired.
• The PO is a key, integrated and core member of the Squad, providing direction, setting priority, information and advice on requirements and being the voice of the Customer etc.

Characteristics of a good PO
Behaviours

• Has understanding and insight of business strategy and customer experience.
• Has a clear vision of the product and what should be produced to achieve business success
• Is empowered to make product decisions that will add the most value/ROI
• Embedded as a Squad member (co-located where possible in the current climate)

Skills

• Has good understanding of user experience best practices
• Able to get input from stakeholders like customers, end-users, team, managers, etc.
• Able to articulate requirements and decisions to help build a better product
• Strives to maintain a holistic view of product and ensure that the end-to-end experience is strong
• Able to align teams on product vision and release goals
• Effectively works with the team and stakeholders in a collaborative relationship

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Improve customer experience in critical customer journeys for differentiated client experience.
• Drive Digital First Contact strategy to achieve channel defection.
• Execute digital sales and marketing channels capabilities enhancement, as aligned with segments and markets priorities
• Achieve technology convergence amongst markets, segments and propositions, to ensure long-term scalability and efficiency of operating platforms

Business

• Develop and own the vision of the squad and holds accountability for delivery on OKRs.
• Define product requirements and make sure they are fulfilling the business financial objective and strategy roadmap, and uplifting customer experience.

Processes

• Responsible to the Voice and Virtual process to ensure the operation efficiency, compliance requirement and customer experience are fulfilled

People & Talent

• Provide input into squad member evaluation and performance review
• Work with Hive Lead to allocate resource within squad base on backlog
• Lead team through to the process of clarifying requirement and delivery expectations with stakeholders

Risk Management

• Work closely with the Hive Lead and Technology Lead to manage and monitor Obsolescence, ICS and Technology risks

Governance

• Provides input and support to country business to comply the process and solution to regulator requirement and the governance policy.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Contact centre business stakeholders
• Group V&V stakeholders
• CPBB business stakeholders including product and segment team
• Group and Country Technology stakeholders
• Group and Country OR, Fraud, Compliance and Legal team
• Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Skills and Experience

• Contact Centre Business and Technology Solution
• Client Experience Management
• Agile Methodology
• Project Management
• Stakeholders Management
• Financial planning

Qualifications

• Agile methodology training certified
• Project management certified
• Strong experience and knowledge on Contact Centre solution and technology for inbound and outbound
• Strong knowledge on Contact Centre assisted platform including WFM, QM and CTI
• Customer experience centric
• Strong stakeholder management skill
• Fast learner

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thingand are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle,continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter,we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-offincluding annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills,global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning cultureto support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation,one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.